The German Social Democrats are apparently for the first time led by a woman, Andrea Nahles. German media reported that party leader Martin Schulz gave up his position for a ministerial post in the new big coalition with the Christian Democrats led by Chancellor Angela Merkel.
For the price of a small apartment in Amsterdam you can buy an entire island off the coast of Scotland.
Losing 38 pounds in six months. That was the 39-year-old Jeremiah Peterson from Missoula, located in the American state of Montana. Reason: because he wants to be a better father for his children.
According to the Russian Orthodox tradition, Russian President Vladirmir Putin has taken an ice cold bath on Thursday evening in honor of the Christian Epiphany Feast.
Donald Trump's attorney has paid $ 130,000 in silence to a porn star. The money was paid to actress Stephanie Clifford by this Michael Cohen in October 2016, just before the elections.
A special natural phenomenon in the harsh cold in the United States: the beaches of Lake Michigan are flooded with millions of ice balls. The scene produces beautiful images.
Unique images from the Sahara. In the desert in north-western Algeria, the sand dunes have disappeared under a layer of snow. According to local media, it is the third time in forty years that there is snow.
Bystanders have saved a herd of elk from a frozen lake in Wyoming last week. Around 25 residents of the city have together ensured that none of the animals drowned in the ice-cold lake.
A find of 43 eggs at a school in the Australian state of New South Wales keeps nature managers in the grip. Especially because they suspect that it is the eggs of a very poisonous snake.
Five American friends go back every five years to the place where they took a photo in 1982. The quintet now owns eight photographs. It shows how the close-knit group has changed over time.
The police in the vicinity of Hoogstraten after a wild pursuit aimed at the tires of car of a young British woman who had been run into them. The woman, who was in the car with two children aged two and thirteen, went off on Sunday when the police wanted to arrest her because she made a nervous impression.
US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is rigorously cutting across two vast national nature reserves in Utah to stimulate development in that state. He thereby chased the original inhabitants and environmentalists against him. These called the plan an unprecedented attack on crucial landscape protection.
Donald Trump wants to call a halt to the land of the federal government. During his visit to Mormon State Utah Tuesday during the day, the president is very likely to announce that he will significantly reduce the protected ground around the Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase Escalante, which will allow uranium to be extracted.
The planet Mars may have much less water than imagined. On certain steep slopes you can see dark lines, a possible indication of underground water that drips down, but it seems that they are coming through something else.
You know them: the perfect holiday slides on Facebook and Instagram. For example, a rock formation in the Norwegian Trolltunga is one of them. The mountain extends beautifully above the lake Ringedalsvatnet. Yet, this tourist plaster appears to be an illusion.
Children of fugitive Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar are also threatened by major dangers in neighboring Bangladesh, such as desperate living conditions and diseases. There must be protection for them and their families and support for safe, voluntary and dignified return, UNICEF proposes, the United Nations Children's Fund.
EU President Donald Tusk has an urgent message to European government leaders: it's time to make important decisions quickly. Political 'self-interest' and bureaucratic laxity inhibit the progress of the EU. Key issues need to be tackled, such as asylum policy and monetary union reform.
In Ireland, Great Britain and France, the heavy storm Ophelia left a mysterious warm glow after heaven on Monday night. Parts of the countries were shrouded in an orange light, causing ash particles and Sahara sand that stormed on its way to the north.
A four-child family-run family in the Scottish Highlands was saved by the Zweinstein Express, the train used in Harry Potter movies.
On Tuesday afternoon, 'Puigtemont' president of Catalonia may call independence and the world looks over his shoulder. Today, both Catalonia and the Spanish government put the heels back in the sand.
A 14-year-old boy has attacked his parents in Austria with a knife. His 51-year-old father died. His mother was injured. The boy himself also suffered injuries.
The extreme weather has caused the ANWB Alarm Center a fierce summer. The emergency service has helped six percent more people than last year in trouble.
Employees of the City of Berlin have caught more than 3000 swamps in the well-known city park Tiergarten in the past two weeks. The species originated originally from North America.
A 28-year-old Brit is the first person to swim across the water at the iconic Hoover Dam. Hundreds of other people did not survive a dip in the water.
President Trump visits Houston, the Texan city most affected by Hurricane Harvey. He met in the company of his wife Melania Saturday among the many victims.
The Trump government is urging US Congress to make money available for the help of Hurricane Harvey's victims, who made a huge ravage in Texas and Lousiana. That's what Tom Bossert, Internal Security Adviser, said on Thursday.
Australia will set more special natural areas to survive the largest crayfish on earth.
Due to emergency weather in northern Italy, several people were injured. There are also thousands of people without power in the far northeastern part of the country, and trains run for hours, reports Ansa press office.
Dozens of Dutch holidaymakers who camp in Lake Garda in Italy have suffered damage by a fiery hail. At the ANWB alarm center, about 40 reports have been received since Wednesday's emergency weather, a spokeswoman told Thursday. Many of these reports are about broken windows of cars and caravans.
In the mountains at Silifke this morning is searched for traces of missing Joey Hoffmann. The team started all the while with the search, for the heat gets too much.
