An employee of the US consulate in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has been diagnosed with minor brain damage after complaining about strange sound sensations. He may have been the victim of a noise attack.
The new Italian government is in the starting blocks, but makes all alarm bells go off in Brussels. The fear is that Italy will have a clear financial policy, especially now that there was a little peace in the EU tent again.
The White House seems to have a new communication strategy with a prominent place for humor and self-mockery, a new video shows.
Cockroaches are not very nice, let alone in and on your body. Katie Holley from Melbourne, Florida, had the fright of her life when she found out that one of these creatures had settled in her ear.
Nothing is worse than being awake all night because of the snoring of the person lying next to you. Sleeping next to a snorer does not only get the blood from your nails, it is also a bad thing for your health!
The South Korean army is now completely removing the propaganda speakers on the border with North Korea. The work will start on Tuesday, message from the state press agency Yonhap.
Greece last year achieved its main objectives for capital support from the European Union. There is no reason to borrow more money from Athens.
Stop the presses! Research at Chapman University in Los Angeles has shown that men with a higher BMI have on average a higher number of bed partners than men with an average and low BMI.
Since the disappearance of the legendary Concorde in 2003, there has been no supersonic passenger plane. But if it is up to NASA, that will change.
A violinist from the British Royal Opera House, Chris Goldscheider, suffered irreparable damage to his hearing due to the orchestra. This has determined an English court. In this respect, the court agrees with Goldscheider in his complaint, which according to the BBC can have major consequences for other musicians who work with loud music.
The authorities in the American state of Louisiana waive the prosecution of two agents who were involved in the notorious death of a black CD seller. Alton Sterling died in 2016 after being hit by police birds in Baton Rouge.
The 23-year-old Mark Anthony Conditt, the suspect of laying several packet bombs in Austin, calls himself a 'psychopath', but he does not let go of his motive for the atrocities. That is what American media write.
The man who is suspected of having committed bomb attacks in the Texas Austin has done so because of problems in his private life. That would be apparent from a sound recording on his phone that the police of the 23-year-old Mark Anthony Conditt in possession, CNN reports.
Film studio The Weinstein Company has filed for bankruptcy on Monday. The company succumbed to the sexual abuse of CEO Harvey Weinstein, which came to light last fall. Contracts that Harvey Weinstein had his victims sign to guarantee secrecy are no longer valid.
A German policeman stopped an alleged serial burglar during a visit to the dentist. The agent lay in Neu-Ulm (Bavaria) in the treatment chair when the criminal penetrated practice in another room, the police reported Friday.
Most people would think twice before they would come close to a spider that is bigger than a male hand, which makes a whistling sound and has great poisonous teeth. But when a group of Australians saw such a huge spider dangling from a branch above a flood, they decided to save the animal.
Marine Le Pen was once again welcomed by its fellow party members for the first time since the 2017 election season. At the sixteenth party conference she gave the typical Front National sound, but now wants to call the party 'Rassemblement Populaire' to leave the past behind and to facilitate political cooperation.
Russia has shown one of its latest weapons. On TV you could see images of the firing of a hypersonic rocket, the kinzjal (dagger). A MiG-31 jet fighter shot off the projectile, which according to the Kremlin at 12,000 kilometers per hour, ten times the speed of the sound, flies towards its target.
US President Donald Trump has praised his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping for his possible long-term stay as Chinese head of state. The Chinese Communist Party deletes the stipulation next week that a president may stay for a maximum of two terms.
A Slovak journalist was shot in his house last weekend. His fiancé was also murdered in their house in Velka Maca, 65 kilometers east of the capital Bratislava.
The police prematurely ended a protest meeting of neo-Nazis in the center of Dresden on suspicion of incitement. The demonstration at Postplatz was organized by Holocaust denier Gerhard Ittner, who has a criminal record because of his racist and anti-Semitic sympathies.
Russiagate, or the possible interference of the Kremlin in the American elections, has received a spectacular follow-up in Russia itself. Anti-corruption blogger Aleksej Navalny, who is excluded from the presidential election next month, says he has evidence that billionaire Oleg Deripaska was the secret emissary of the Kremlin in 2016 with Paul Manafort, then the campaign chief of Donald Trump.
We have not yet succeeded in launching a new SpaceX rocket with a red Tesla Roadster. The game breaker is the strong wind high in the sky above Cape Canaveral's space base in Florida.
A brand new rocket has to start its first test flight on Tuesday. On board is immediately a striking cargo. No satellites, no astronauts, but a car. It is the red Tesla Roadster from the businessman Elon Musk.
The colorful businessman Elon Musk is not averse to a good publicity stunt. He sold flamethrowers and caps, he canceled his salary for the coming years and built the largest battery in the world within a hundred days. But next week he wants to do something completely new. His own space company, SpaceX, has to shoot his own car from his own brand Tesla on Tuesday.
For the price of a small apartment in Amsterdam you can buy an entire island off the coast of Scotland.
Will it be Al-Sisi? Or Al-Sisi? Tens of millions of Egyptians have only one real choice at the presidential election at the end of March: the incumbent leader. His potential rivals have been professionally eliminated in recent weeks. The last contender, former army boss Sami Anan, was arrested yesterday.
Woof woof, the train is coming. If you are waiting for the train in Japan soon, you might suddenly hear dog sounds. Research has shown that barking trains can drive deer on the track and that saves considerably in the number of collisions.
At least ten people were killed in heavy fighting in the Libyan capital Tripoli. The local anti-terrorist unit Rada, one of the most powerful groups in the city, said that an airport had been attacked.
