An animal organization in Germany has awarded a reward of 7000 euros to find out the perpetrator (s) of killing a wolf. The dead animal was reinforced with concrete and thrown into a lake near a mine in the Land of Saxony.
A strange bird prevents the opening of the second nudist beach in Belgium.
Even the ballerinas of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow dropped tutu's on the wooden dressing room floor during the break of Swan Lake in their tunnels last Sunday. Via the mobile phone of one of the dancers they wanted to get as much as possible from the football shooter of their country against Spain.
The Indonesian rescue service has found human remains in Lake Toba using underwater drones. The remains are probably from passengers of the ferry that sank there eleven days ago.
Anyone looking for a dried-up lake in Australia with the satellite images from Google Earth comes across something remarkable: a fifty-meter-long penis. How the print comes and who is responsible for it is not known.
Indonesian emergency services have located the sunken ferry on Lake Toba in North Sumatra. An official confirms that the ferry has been identified at the bottom with the help of equipment for soil investigation.
On the ferry that capsized on the Tobameer in North Sumatra on Monday, many more passengers were hitherto assumed. According to the Indonesian authorities, 180 people were missing, previously it was reported that the ferry was carrying 80 passengers. The number of missing persons is three times as large as the capacity of the ship.
Indonesian rescue workers resumed their search for survivors of a ferry that sank on Lake Toba in North Sumatra on Tuesday. The bad weather makes the operation difficult. The approximately one hundred rescue workers suffer from rain and waves of about 2 meters high.
On the Tobameer in North Sumatra a boat with around eighty people on board was hijacked on Monday. Nine of them were saved according to local media. Dozens of passengers are still missing. The body of one drowned passenger is salvaged.
The Foreign Ministers of Greece and Macedonia signed an agreement on Sunday to give the former Yugoslav Republic a new name: the Republic of Northern Macedonia.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has survived a vote of no confidence in parliament. This clears the way for signing the historic agreement with neighboring Macedonia. This republic of the former Yugoslavia then goes through life under the name Northern Macedonia.
American authorities confirmed Saturday morning that they found the remains of a woman who was killed by an alligator. Shizuka Matsuki was missing since Friday morning.
After centuries of speculation, the final answer is quickly coming: does the Loch Ness monster exist?
The body of Eric Geboers has been taken out of the water, says Alain Remure of the Missing Persons Cell. The ex-world champion motocross jumped out of a pleasure boat at recreational lake Miramar in the Belgian Mol on Sunday evening to save a dog, but did not come up anymore.
The famous Belgian ex-motorcrosser Eric Geboers is missing at recreational lake Miramar in the Belgian Mol. Geboers jumped out of a pleasure boat Sunday night to save a dog, but did not come up anymore. The local authorities fear the worst.
Calculated on the 'Day of the Wolf', such a predator probably caused a slaughter under sheep in the German town of Bad Wildbad (Black Forest). More than forty ruminants survived. Several were torn apart, others were so seriously injured that they had to be killed. In addition, a still unknown number of sheep drowned because they panicked a stream running alongside.
A water sports enthusiast, who lost his keys in Germany from a lake, accidentally removed a grenade from the Second World War. According to German media, the man tried to pick up the key with a magnet on a wire, but the grenade remained hanging on his wire.
Roy B., who was arrested on Sunday for involvement in the death of Orlando Boldewijn, has been released.
On a beach of the Thai island of Koh Lanta, tourists are surprised to see a mysterious sea creature crawling out of the water. According to British media, several dozen have been washed up, but it is unclear what kind of animal it is.
A German on his way to Lake Garda appears to have forgotten his daughters aged 10 and 14 after a stop at a gas station.
France is under the spell of Nordahl Lelandais (35), the murderer of the French Maëlys (9). He also announced Thursday the murder of a professional soldier. The French fear the worst now: is Lelandais a serial killer? And if so, what else does he have on his or her heigth?
We all know 'yellow' snow, but the population of a large part of Eastern Europe had not yet experienced this color of the atmospheric phenomenon: several places are covered with orange snow.
The body of 25-year-old Australian woman Alison Raspa was found four months after her disappearance in a partly frozen lake in Canada.
Customers from an antique shop in Florida looked strange when they suddenly saw a green monster crawling past the store. A lost alligator with good taste ran right past the shop, which caused a slight panic in the shoppers present.
A grandfather was killed in saving his grandson. This had fallen through the ice while skating on a frozen lake near the German town of Creglingen (Baden-Württemberg).
Amusement park lovers pay attention! Disneyland Paris is going to expand. And how! The park announced ambitious future plans on Tuesday.
Large parts of Wales and England were startled by a slight earthquake on Saturday afternoon. According to the British seismological institute, the shock had a force of 4.4 at a depth of just 7.4 kilometers. The epicenter was located near the village of Clydach, 20 kilometers northeast of Swansea.
The dollar index lost 0.4% to a three-year low, while US WTI oil rose 1.7% in value.
Pita Taufatofua (34) from the warm Tonga has once again waved his body with the flag during the opening ceremony of the Games.
Pita Taufatofua (34) from the warm Tonga did not make much impression at the 2016 Olympic Games as taekwondoka. As a flag bearer- shiny from the oil- the muscular sportsman made an unforgettable impression. And also in Pyeongchang, Pita knows how to surprise the viewers.
