Fortunately, the heat also has positive consequences. For the first time in fifteen years, a rare group of andean flamingos have laid eggs in a reserve in Great Britain. Because of the warm weather the animals have gotten meaning to reproduce.
The launch of the Parker Solar Probe space probe has been successful on Sunday. Exactly at 9.31 am the rockets went into the air. On Saturday the launch was canceled at the last moment. In preparation, disturbances were found in the data of the launcher.
In a crash with a single-engine airplane in the Indonesian province of Papua, eight people were killed. Only a 12-year-old boy survived the accident. The local authorities report this after the aircraft was found in mountainous areas.
The launch of the Parker Solar Probe space probe was canceled on Saturday at the last minute. In the preparations, irregularities were found in the data of the launcher. On Sunday NASA will try again to launch the probe. The scheduled time is 9.31 am (Dutch time).
In Japan, all nine occupants of a helicopter were killed by a crash. The aircraft crashed on the island of Honshu, rescue workers have salvaged the bodies on Saturday. The cause of the crash is still unclear.
Belgium can get its first real island, but instead of being proud, half the country is already on its hind legs.
The lion's den. An American satellite goes there on Saturday. The Parker Solar Probe goes to the sun. He arrives there in November. The solar probe should teach us more about the atmosphere of the sun.
At least nine people were killed because their boat capsized off the Turkish coast. It concerns seven children and two women, says the district head of Kuşadasi against the Turkish state press agency Anadolu. They tried to illegally cross over to Europe according to the authorities.
Heavy natural violence in the Swiss Alps. Because of a heavy downpour in the mountains, the village of Chamoson is flooded by a huge mudflow. There were no injuries because the channels and trenches shortly before had been able to process the black mass. However, there was material damage to cars and buildings. Some roads were also temporarily closed.
The great heat in Portugal creates unusual scenes in public life. In the streets of the capital Lisbon, but also in other places, this weekend was almost deserted on the streets. Temperatures in many places between 44 and 47 degrees meant that the Portuguese sought protection from the heat.
In the heat-affected Portugal, dozens of fires are burning. One of the largest fires rages in mountainous areas near Monchique on the north side of the Algarve, which is popular with tourists.
During a speech by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, several drones with explosives detonated on Saturday night. According to the Venezuelan Minister of Information Jorge Rodriguez, it was an attack against the president. Seven soldiers of the national guard were injured. Maduro himself remained unharmed.
Dozens of students have been injured in protests in Bangladesh. The students have been protesting for seven days because of the poor road safety in the country. The immediate cause was the death of two students; they were hit by a speeding bus last week.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the total number of people who died as a result of Ebola disease has risen to probably 33 in two weeks, according to the Ministry of Health of the African country.
Several people were killed in Switzerland when a historic plane crashed. The plane crashed into inhospitable mountains and was completely destroyed, authorities say. None of the occupants survived the crash, but the precise number of victims is not yet known.
Without warning him, the Chinese authorities started to demolish a studio in Beijing by the activist and artist Ai Weiwei. The sixty-year-old dissident put on Instagram a video showing how his studio with a heavy machine is destroyed.
Facebook wants to remind users how much time they spend on social media. The company therefore introduces new functions that keep track of how long people are on Facebook and Instagram. This should ensure that people deal more consciously with their time on social media, so the company motivates the measure. Instagram is the property of Facebook.
Due to the chaos at Munich airport, seven hundred people were forced to spend the night on camp beds. The second airport in Germany had to be partially evacuated on Saturday, causing a lot of inconvenience. Hundreds of other duped passengers have been accommodated in hotels, a Sunday spokesman said.
In a shooting in the American city of New Orleans, three people were killed and at least seven people were injured. The shooting in the 'French Quarter' of the city.
Thousands of residents of the American state of California have been fleeing a large wildfire. The so-called Cranston Fire, which is supposedly lit, quickly seized itself and raged in an area of some 1900 hectares in the San Jacinto Mountains.
Severe weather has caused flooding and other flooding in southern Poland and northern Slovakia. Hundreds of tourists in the beloved Tatra Mountains have left or evacuated. Residents also give way to flooding.
Russia has to pay three members of Pussy Riot a compensation of thousands of euros. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that the rights of women have been repeatedly violated during their trial. The activists would also have been disproportionately severely punished.
A drug gang that operated from the Netherlands, among others, has shipped an estimated 1.5 tons of cocaine and amphetamine in the past two years. Europol has rolled up the gang in recent months.
Pakistani former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appealed against his conviction in a corruption case. The authorities arrested Sharif and his daughter Maryam when they returned to Pakistan late last week. Thousands of Sharif's supporters then took to the streets to express their support.
A 6-year-old girl was probably shot and seriously wounded by a hunter in the German state of Thuringia. The police are currently investigating the involvement of seven hunters who were in a forest area in the vicinity of the accident.
An American woman who has been missing for a week has been found at the foot of a cliff in California.
Pakistani former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam are on their way to Pakistan. They are expected to be arrested immediately upon their arrival in Lahore. A Pakistani court sentenced the duo to years of imprisonment.
Seven black rhinos died after moving to another game park in Kenya. Kenyan media reported that the seven last months have been transferred from a park near Lake Nakuru to the more than 300 km southeastern park Tsavo East. It concerns half of the total of fourteen animals that were moved.
Sarah and Travis Mitchel from the US state of Oregon have been sentenced to six years in prison for refusing medical help for their premature daughter. The girl, one of a twin, has passed away.
Due to a collision between a passenger bus and a tank truck in Iran, at least thirteen deaths occurred. The bus was rammed by an unknown cause just after departure at a stop by the tank truck in Sanandaj in the west of Iran.
