While Irish and Northern Irish celebrate Saint Patricks Day all over the world this weekend, Westminster was busy negotiating the support of the Northern Irish DUP for Prime Minister Theresa May's...
A 30-year-old drunken Russian has hit several people on the pavement of the Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg. A 40-year-old American and a 39-year-old woman from Moscow came to...
Because of a bus accident in Northern Macedonia, at least 14 people were killed and 30 others were injured. The accident was on the highway between the capital Skopje and Tetovo.
Iran Wednesday demanded the immediate release of a US-born journalist who was arrested there while working for the English-language Iranian news channel...
Auction house Christie \u0026 # x27; s sells at the end of this month the wardrobe that the famous French couturier Yves Saint Laurent designed for his equally famous compatriot Catherine Deneuve. He came up with the more...
At the cathedral of Saint Dionysius in Athens a bomb exploded on Thursday morning. An agent and an employee of the church were injured.
The US authorities have accused a Russian of disrupting the American political system. The woman, identified as Elena Chushajnova, is suspected of being one of the driving forces behind a plot to influence the 2016 and 2018 elections.
Pope Francis compared abortion with rent murder. In the past, the pope sometimes said that his Roman Catholic Church is too concerned with debates about abortion. He also showed some understanding in 2015 for women who let their pregnancy end 'because they see no other way out.' He also described abortion as a sin, but at the same time as a tragedy.
On Sunday according to the human rights organization OVD-Info, the Russian police arrested nearly 850 people who demonstrated against the plans of the government to raise the pensionable age. In St Petersburg, most demonstrators were taken off the streets, 354 people prefered. The city of Ekaterinburg reported 129 arrests. Not all cities have received data.
Matt Talbot, a Dubliner who died in 1925, was once a notorious slap. Now he is on his way to becoming a saint. Pope Francis will honor him on Saturday during his visit to predominantly Catholic Ireland, but not by giving a toast.
Russian Twitter accounts have attempted to raise unrest in more ways. That is what American scientists say. The accounts would also have written about vaccinations. The researchers from three prestigious American universities write about it in the American Journal of Public Health.
A dog has opened the cargo hatch during a flight from Saint Petersburg to Moscow. As a result, the passenger unit was forced to make an emergency landing. The dog had escaped from his cage in the luggage room and in one way or another had opened the hatch of the Boeing 737, reports the Russian news agency Interfax on the basis of an employee from the Moscow airport.
There are prophets who predict that the globe is gradually going down in tourism. Because of the World Cup football, Russia has almost a million additional foreign visitors to stow. Everyone is full of praise. But interest in cities such as Moscow, St. Petersburg and boat trips along the Volga has been rising for years.
If you are attending your work day after the World Cup fiasco in Belgium in the Brussels metro, the French hymn suddenly sounds out of the speakers. That lot had to endure hundreds of balding football fans the day after the elimination by France (1-0).
The Belgian King Filip is watching the semi-final between France and Belgium at the World Cup on Tuesday from the stands in St. Petersburg. That confirms a source to the Belga news agency. The palace refused to confirm the trip from Filip to Russia on Saturday.
Queen Elizabeth (92) does not feel well and has decided to stay at home. The British queen planned to attend the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George on Thursday. The celebration is at St. Paul's Cathedral in the inner city of London.
The restoration of the altarpiece Lam Gods by the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck has yielded some surprises. After the removal of overpaintings from the sixteenth century, the muzzle of the lamb on the central panel appears more pronounced. Moreover, the animal seems to look more penetrating.
A hat that the French emperor Napoleon left behind on the battlefield of Waterloo will be auctioned in Lyon on Monday. The so-called stitch was taken away by the Dutch Baron Arnout Jacques Van Zuijlen Van Nijevelt after the defeat of Napoleon in Waterloo.
The police have started in Paris with the evacuation of the largest camp of migrants of the region. Approximately 1700 people have to leave the settlement at the Porte de la Villette. They are taken to about twenty temporary places in the Paris region, where their origin and status will be looked at.
An exploded e-cigarette is the cause of the death of an American man, authorities in Florida have confirmed. His death is the first fatality due to an unsafe electronic cigarette.
Charles Aznavour was hospitalized in Nîmes (southern France) after a severe fall in his home. The very elderly Armenian-French chansonnier (93) has broken his upper arm according to French media.
The first auction day of the legacy of David and Peggy Rockefeller immediately produced a record. With an amount of 646 million dollars, converted by 544 million euros, a lot more money was deposited than for the art collection of couturier Yves Saint Laurent. That yielded some € 200 million on day one.
A bitcoin blogger who spoke a little too much about his successes was robbed, deprived and later found dead.
Charles Aznavour was hospitalized in St. Petersburg on Wednesday. The 93-year-old French singer became unwell during the rehearsal prior to his concert in the Russian city, reports the state news agency TASS. What is wrong with him is not clear. The concert that Aznavour would give was postponed.
Even though you live in a tight one-room apartment in a deserted industrial town, deep in Siberia and virtually without money, the fairytale can also be reached. 'We have created a special program for these women,' says Marii Boucher in the St. Petersburg headquarters of the Austrian School of Etiquette. 'Elegance does not depend on money, but on knowledge and inner civilization. We are trying to bring this here in Russia. '
US President Donald Trump last month invited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to come to the White House. This has been confirmed by his spokesman, CNN reports.
Russia rejects sixty American diplomats. The US consulate in St Petersburg must also close, Russian minister Sergei Lavrov (Foreign Affairs) announced.
The Flemish fathers who brew the exclusive Trappist beer Westvleteren, have buried the battle ax with the Dutch supermarket chain Jan Linders. The Flemish broadcaster VRT reports that they were not taking legal action, after the company had promised not to sell the Trappist again.
Survivors of the terrorist attack at Zaventem airport are deeply disappointed about the course of the commemoration this morning. At 7.58 am, exactly two years after the attack, a minute of silence would be held.
A day before the presidential election, the Russian police on Saturday in several cities raids in offices of the opposition movement of Aleksej Navalni and other opposition parties.
