EU negotiator Michel Barnier calls on the British government to come up with legally substantiated texts in order to arrange the departure from the EU in time. 'If we want to make the negotiations a success, we need to increase the pace', said the Frenchman in Brussels at the presentation of the draft treaty on the divorce.
A rowdy child got a nasty surprise when he decided to pee in a Chinese elevator. He caused a short circuit and got stuck, reports the South China Morning Post newspaper.
What would have been a pleasant trip to fast food restaurant Quick, turned into a painful situation for 7-year-old Mattéo. After a visit to the toilet of the branch in the Belgian Châtelineau, the boy appeared to have severe burns on the buttocks. According to his mother, this is a sick joke in which some bad boys lubricate glue on the toilet seat to 'stuck' accidental toilet users.
The head office of the British-Dutch group Unilever will probably come to the Netherlands at the brexit. The British government is taking this seriously seriously, reports the Financial Times.
An American woman has recorded a heartbreaking moment on Valentine's Day. In the restaurant where she was eating, she saw a man crying quietly. Opposite him: a bottle with the ashes of his deceased wife.
Oxfamaas Roland Van Hauwermeiren paid Haitian prostitutes between 79 and 158 euros each time.
News sites that embed tweets can thus infringe the copyrights that rest on the images shown. That remarkable statement was made by a federal judge in the American state of New York on Thursday.
A joke by an American father has gone all over the world. He had secretly put a huge dildo in the hand luggage of his son. 'Unaffordable', according to the father, who filmed the hilarious scene at the airport.
A teacher from a Catholic school in Miami was fired after posting photographs of her marriage to a woman on social media. According to the school, marriage did not correspond with 'Catholic values', American media reports.
The Irish nationalist party Sinn Féin has a new leader on Saturday after more than 34 years. At a congress of 2000 party members in Dublin, the party installed Mary Lou McDonald on Saturday as the successor of Gerry Adams.
Thousands of Americans have shared a shocking video of a pedophile who performs sexual acts with a little girl. The people do not have bad intentions and try to track down the perpetrator, but are themselves guilty of spreading child pornography.
A 23-year-old man from Ireland is suspected of mistreating a puppy of only eleven weeks old. He would have mistreated the young dog with a hammer first and then put it in the microwave. The abuse could be followed via Snapchat, where the suspected perpetrator shared the images. The puppy, named Sparky, did not survive.
The prestigious university of Cornell from New York has been seriously challenged by their own student association. The youngsters of Zeta Beta Tau held a 'competition' among the members, called the Pig Roast. In this, the students kept track of the number of students with whom they crawled into bed and what weight they had.
Mahmoud Abbas spies on his own rivals and allies with the help of the CIA. Thousands of Palestinians have been tapped for years by a special unit, for which there is no legal basis.
FBI boss Christopher Wray told his employees in an internal video that they are difficult times, but that actions are ultimately more important than words. Wray reacts to all the controversy that has arisen around the US federal criminal investigation, report various media.
Fitness model Jen Selter was removed from an airplane by five agents after she had a discussion with a stewardess. With 11.8 million (!) Followers on Instagram and many followers on Twitter, the images go all over the world.
Via the globally popular running and cycling app Strava, users can share their locations, but an interactive map of the app suddenly endangers the safety of American soldiers and other military personnel. The 'Global Heatmap' shows locations of military bases in conflict areas such as Syria and Iraq and this was discovered by a student.
Everything, really everything he had tried. And yet Robert Leibowitz pulled everything out once more to get a functioning kidney: with a T-shirt he went to the Walt Disney World theme park.
American politician Hillary Clinton refused in 2008 to dismiss an advisor who was under fire for alleged sexual harassment. The New York Times reports on the basis of conversations with several sources that the Democrate thereby ignored a recommendation from its campaign manager.
A young Indian who was filming along the track in Hyderabad himself while a train was coming at high speed, was hit by the oncoming train. The man looks at the camera with a big smile on his face when fate strikes. The Indian was badly injured.
A 22-year-old British vlogster who hoped to spend four nights for free in a hotel in Dublin, has instead received an account of € 5,289,000.
The Icelandic police have shared her drugs capture report of 2017. The most important catch was made from the stomach of a Belgian smuggler: one kilo of coke was hidden in his stomach.
Under the floor of Buckingham Palace remains have been found from the reign of Queen Victoria. The discoveries, including old cigarette packs and part of a newspaper, were done during renovation work.
The rebellious Venezuelan helicopter pilot Oscar Pérez died during a confrontation with security forces. Last year he gained worldwide fame with an action in which government buildings were bombarded with grenades from a stolen helicopter. Minister Nestor Reverol (Interior) announced the death of Pérez.
The 29-year-old Lauren Wasser who lost her right leg years ago due to the 'tampon disease', had to have her left leg amputated this week. 'My life is going to change enormously. Again, 'writes the American model on Instagram.
Slightly more than a thousand young people in Denmark have been charged, because they had spread a movie via Facebook Messenger in which two fifteen-year-olds had sex. They are suspected of sharing child pornography, the Danish police announced on Monday.
A 72-year-old Japanese mafia boss, who had been on the run for the police for more than 14 years, was arrested in Thailand on Wednesday after pictures of the tattooed man were put on social media.
An Asian supplier of shared bicycles is forced to leave Brussels, Lille and Reims after a few months. Gobee.bike announced that 80 to 90 percent of the bikes were stolen or damaged there.
A boy who was swimming off the coast of the Bahamas escaped four hungry sharks. On horrifying images, made with a drone, you can see how the boy is unsuspectingly playing in the water, while the four predators are coming closer and closer.
The largest prime number has been discovered so far, a number that can only be shared by one and itself. The number consists of 23,249,425 digits. That is almost a million more than the previous record holder.
