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It's make or break for the European Union in negotiations on a new membership of the UK union. That suggested EU Minister Donald Tusk Thursday ahead of the summit in Brussels.

Skis and poles, cell phones, eyeglasses and clothing are things that Dutch tourists lost or damaged the most during their winter.

A British adventurer who wanted to cross Antarctica alone without help, did not survive the journey. The 55-year-old polar explorer died in a hospital in the Chilean city of Punta Arenas by organ failure, as did his wife on Monday.

A group of international scientists has discovered an enormous icy abyss under the ice of Antarctica. They speak of a 1 100-kilometer gap. No ravine on earth is so big, reports the journal Geology, the journal of the prestigious Geological Society of America.

The weather gets colder in the Arctic. After a 'heat wave', where near freezing temperatures were reached, Thursday was 15 degrees below zero. Normally, it freezes at this time of the year 30 to 40 degrees.

Warm air is currently doing temperatures in the Arctic rise to unprecedented heights. A weather station on a buoy located 500 kilometers from the pole gave Wednesday a temperature of exactly zero degrees.

A Polish truck driver has been sentenced to twenty years in prison in Britain. He was caught in June with the arrival of a ferry from the Netherlands in Harwich. Between his load Gouda cheese he had hidden 50 kilos of heroin, worth 6.7 million pounds, converted 9.3 million.

A 78-year-old man Sunday morning in a German clinic attacked a nurse and four patients.

The hole in the ozone layer over the South Pole has unexpectedly grown to the second largest size ever measured. That's what scientists at the German research center DLR determined using satellites. Are likely to cause major changes in air currents in the stratosphere.

A man with the remarkable name Santa Claus is elected to the council of the American town of North Pole, Alaska .