Nobel laureate and former president of Costa Rica Óscar Arias is under attack for allegations of sexual misconduct. Five women say to have been harassed or assaulted by the...
Little Julen ate a bag of sweets before he fell into the pit on a family farm in Totalán on Sunday afternoon. A family member recorded it himself in a photograph. He then wears a red...
The 51-year-old Simone de A. was arrested in Sorocaba (Brazil) for the murder of a 73-year-old Dutchman. The death of Hans van Denderen was probably concealed because the woman sent messages of his name to, among others, the man's relatives. This is what Jose Antonio Proença Martins de Melo, spokesman for the police in the Brazillian Votorantim, says in a conversation with the news site Globo.com. Simone denies having murdered Hans.
In the event of flooding after severe storms in the Malaga region in the south of Spain, a firefighter died on Sunday.
A teenager who was attacked when he swam in the sea in Brazil is surviving his wounds. On Sunday afternoon, a shark bit off his penis and thigh.
A striking step from Apple: the company wants to help people to make less use of their iPhone, reports Bloomberg news agency. In the new version of operating system iOS, which will be presented on Monday, there will be a tool that helps people to occasionally hide their iPhone and iPad.
The American computer concern Cisco Systems warns of a Russian cyber attack on Ukraine. According to the company, hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices with high-quality hostile software in dozens of countries.
Facebook is working on a feature that allows users to clear the browser history on the social network. Topman Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook said the new system will be discussed at the annual Facebook conference that starts Tuesday.
Carlos Alvarado Quesada won the presidential election in Costa Rica by a large margin. The center-left Quesada beat his great rival, the conservative Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz. After 91 percent of the votes had been counted, it turned out that Quesada had received 61 percent of the votes and Muñoz 39 percent.
An officer who was so fat that he was already retired at the age of 43, is suing the city of New York.
We can all remember it: the hilarity surrounding the unveiling of the first bust of star footballer Christiano Ronaldo. Now he gets one that does look like him.
In Central America, 22 dead have already fallen due to the tropical storm called Nate, which draws across the region. Especially Costa Rica and Nicaragua are affected. The authorities fear more and more victims.
There are demonstrations in various locations in Barcelona on Wednesday, after 14 people were arrested earlier on the suspicion of cooperation in the October 1 referendum. The government in Madrid sees it as illegal. There are also 22 searches, including at the Catalan 'ministries' of foreign and economic affairs.
After Hurricane Irma follows another hurricane. It's about the tropical storm Jose, which will be getting stronger and is expected to become a hurricane on Thursday. That predicts meteorological institutes like the National Hurricane Center.
It becomes a lot easier to find specific products on eBay. The new app from the webshop can be searched using a photo that you created or found on the web, announced the company Wednesday.
Adobe stops developing and supporting Flash. By the end of 2020, the application will disappear, the software company announced on Tuesday.
The Mexican police found the bodies of eleven men and three women in a mass grave at the tourist resort of San Jose del Cabo. Authorities try to identify the victims who found Tuesday and Wednesday through DNA tests, reporting the charges to the state of Baja California on Thursday (local time).
IPhone producer Apple will announce a speaker based on voice commands later this year. The device, called HomePod, operates on the basis of Siri, the voice assistant of the company.
Apple announced a new iPad and new MacBooks during a presentation at its WWDC Developer Conference.
During its WWDC developer conference, Apple has its new versions of its operating systems, including iOS and macOS.
It's back in June, so time for Apple fans to wait a while for the company to turn back to high hat news at its WWDC conference! Reporter Toke Beerens is present on the spot and reports live from 19:00!
The attack that killed seven Londoners or tourists, which is not clear yet, is hardly twelve o'clock, yet life in London largely resembles that of a normal Sunday. Sunday is the most important tourist day. They use the beautiful spring sun to do exactly what they would normally do: take a cruise on the Thames, a hop-on-hop-off double decker ride or visit the Giacommetti Exhibition in Tate Modern.
In a large revolt of detainees in a prison in Venezuela on Tuesday, twelve dead and eleven injured were killed. That confirmed a spokesman for the responsible authorities Wednesday.
Facebook will securely compete with the business tools Slack and Microsoft teams. The Internet giant launched a free version of Workplace, business Facebook version. That made the company announced on Tuesday at the F8 developer conference.
Facebook will develop a platform for augmented reality. That was the message from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at F8 Tuesday, the meeting of Facebook developers. Facebook is not alone: other companies, including Microsoft see 2017 as the year of the augmented reality.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook Tuesday expressed his condolences to the families of the 74-year-old man who was shot dead in the street in the US city of Cleveland. The suspected perpetrator filmed how the man shot in the head and put the video on Facebook, which then could be seen two hours.
A Colombian who survived the flood in Colombia with his wife and seven-month-old son, said there was barely time to escape the water.
Certainly fourteen people have been killed in a landslide in southern Colombia. At least sixty people were injured, reported the authorities. It is still unclear how many people are missing.
Police in Guatemala on Monday three people arrested following the fire in a children's home, where forty girls were killed. It is, according to local media to the director of the orphanage, to the former Minister of Social Welfare Carlos Rodas and his deputy minister Anahi Keller.
The death toll from the fire rose to 39 victims in a shelter for children in Guatemala. Several children are still in critical condition in hospital.
