What could have become a drama ended this afternoon as a fairy tale. The twelve Thai football players of the Wilde Zwijnen team and their coach have all escaped from the Tham Luang cave. Hollywood is warming up for the story that seems written for the white screen.
Enthusiastic, lively, sporty. Little by little the information of the Thai grandsons who were rescued in the last few days drips inside. Three boys were celebrating their birthday, another had asthma, yet another promised to help his parents 'better in future'. Everyone has his own story.
In violent protests against the planned rise in fuel prices, according to local media, at least seven people were killed in Haiti. They were killed during looting in and around the capital Port-au-Prince. The police also spoke of killing, but did not give an exact number.
Deported Pakistani former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (68) has been sentenced to a prison sentence of ten years. An anti-corruption court in Pakistan also imposed fines on the politician and his daughter on fines, a prosecutor said.
The death toll due to explosions in a fireworks store in the Mexican town of Tultepec has risen to 24. There are also rescue workers among the victims.
A famous etching by Rembrandt has changed ownership at the Christie's auction house in London for 3 million euros. It is a version of Ecce Homo. Then the Dutch master from the 17th century depicted the biblical story about Pontius Pilate, who lets the people of Jerusalem decide whether Jesus should be executed or spared.
In the Mexican town of Tultepec, people were killed again Thursday by explosions in a fireworks store. Local media report that two explosions occurred one behind the other.
A boat full of tourists has turned into Phuket, Thailand. Seven more people would be missing.
A man was sentenced to seven years in prison by the federal court in Karlsruhe, because he had persuaded a woman with suicidal tendencies to let him hang him. The man had made an appointment with the woman at the Giessen station, but he could be arrested there before he killed his victim.
Octopus Rabiot, who knew how to predict the outcome of three World Cup matches in Japan, has been eaten. The octopus that became a national prominence was sold on the market after the third correct prediction.
A cluster of volcanoes, known as Nevados de Chillán, in southern Chile can erupt within 'a few days or weeks'. That reports the national disaster agency of Chile.
In Malaysia there has been a commotion about a marriage between a 41-year-old man with a girl of 11 years old. The girl is a friend of the children of his second wife. Several organizations ask the authorities to intervene. Many Malaysians are furious and want the man to be punished and the girl is taken away from him.
WE have the name, but the Belgians can also use it. The beer coins of a World Cup football village in Kortrijk appear to have been falsified on a large scale.
In a house in the Indian capital New Delhi early Sunday morning the remains of eleven members of a family were found. The Times of India reported that some killed members of the family were hanging on the ceiling and blindfolded.
In a family drama in Bavaria three children aged three, seven and nine and their 29-year-old mother were killed.
After the recent tightening of the arms embargo against Myanmar, the European Union is now also imposing sanctions against seven members of the (border) police because of their involvement in serious human rights violations in the Asian country. Their bank balances in the EU are frozen and they no longer receive visas for Europe.
The European Union imposes sanctions on eleven high-ranking Venezuelans in response to the unfair elections in which President Nicolás Maduro was re-elected last month. They are considered guilty of undermining democracy and human rights violations.
What should have been an adventurous leap, base jumper Robert Haggarty was fatal. The 47-year-old Briton died in a 2.9-kilometer jump in the Dolomites.
The gorilla who became famous for sign language was deceased in her sleep. Koko was 46 years old. The Gorilla Foundation has announced this in Woodside, Florida. The western lowland gorilla was born on 4 July 1971 at the San Francisco zoo as Hanabi-ko, Japanese for 'fireworks child'.
No country in North Africa yet shows willingness or interest to accommodate migrants picked up from the Mediterranean. 'Not yet', EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos (Migration) said on Thursday about the plan that EU leaders want to work out.
At least seven people were killed in an accident with a truck in the Mexican city Tuxtla Gutiérrez. The truck drove into a group of demonstrators, according to the prosecutor of the province of Chiapas because the brakes of the vehicle were defective. There are also nine injured.
At least seventeen visitors to a disco in Caracas were stitched early Saturday morning after someone had exploded a tear gas grenade. This has been confirmed by the Venezuelan Minister of the Interior Nestor Reverol.
More than thirty years after the 4-year-old Inass was found tortured and beaten to death along the A10, the police arrested her executioners. The parents of the toddler are officially suspected since yesterday of the mutilation and killing of their very own child.
With the arrest of a 14-year-old boy from the Tottenham district, the London police think they have solved a whole series of street robberies. Just before his arrest, the boy had raided at least seven people with a companion on a moped.
It seems Donald Trump against the rest of the world on the G7 in Canada. The proportions have almost never been so cold and hostile during the meeting for the heads of government of the seven industrial superpowers. In the corridors is even spoken of a G6 where the US is no part of it.
The Dutch labor market will be open to Croats unhindered by July. According to Minister Koolmees (Social Affairs), there is no reason to allow them to apply for a separate work permit if they want to work here. He writes this Friday in a letter to the House of Representatives.
The Austrian government closes seven mosques and rejects several imams. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said that there is no place in his country for 'parallel societies, political Islam and radicalization.'
Security personnel from an American prison was dumbfounded when it turned out that a transferred detainee had her vagina stuffed with escape material.
In a wild chase by the police in Berlin, a dead person fell and seven people were injured. Three thieves raged late on Wednesday evening with the police on their heels through the center of the German capital. The pursuit began when the police wanted to arrest men who were trying to steal building materials. The three suspects fled in a car where they wounded an agent. He is badly injured.
At the appeal court in Antwerp, the appeal starts on Thursday in the large drug store in which former TV presenter Frank Masmeijer plays an alleged role. Masmeijer received eight years in prison and a fine of 48,000 euros for involvement in the import of 467 kilos of cocaine via the port of Antwerp. Against him seven years in prison had been demanded. The former NCRV television star has always denied his share and therefore appealed.
