A Belgian boy (6) who was on holiday with his family in Switzerland was killed in a mountain walk. The child received a broken piece of rock on the head. He died from his injuries.
A federal court in California rejected a case filed by the cities of Oakland and San Francisco against major oil and gas companies such as Shell, ExxonMobil and BP on climate change. According to the judge, the problem is too broad to be decided in court.
A Belgian couple was driven off a cliff during their vacation on the Spanish island of Mallorca with their rental car. The Nissan Micra came ten meters lower to a halt against a rock in the sea. The occupants were injured.
Suffer from snails in your garden? Instead of eradicating them with poison, you can also simply serve them on a plate.
A quarter of a century ago, the first one emerged in the Amsterdam Pijp, now there are 146 all over the country: meeting centers for people with dementia and their informal caregivers. Meanwhile, there is international interest in the low-threshold and affordable provision that was once devised at the Psychiatry department of VUmc in Amsterdam. On Thursday, the official announcement of an international network (\u0026 # x27; MeetingDem Network \u0026 # x27;) will provide even more foundation and, hopefully, the initiators, even more follow-up abroad.
Two climbers were killed in the American Yosemite National Park. The victims fell when they climbed the El Capitan rock, reports American media.
The court in the German city of Meiningen has lifted the ban on the right-wing extremist rock festival 'Rock against foreigners'. The Hildburghausen district had banned the festival in Themar (8-9 June) because rare bird species on and around the site raise their young. The court found the ban invalid, because there is insufficient evidence that the festival violates nature conservation laws. An appeal can still be lodged against this decision.
Researchers have found a decapitated body at excavations in Pompeii, which was buried under Vesuvius ash in 79 AD and stones from the volcano. It concerns the remains of a man who was probably about 35 years old at the time of his death, message news agency ANSA.
Our solar system appears to have an immigrant. It is a rock that came from outside our system and stayed here. It is the first time that such a \u0026 aposoid has been found.
Oil company Shell and commodity traders Glencore and Vitol, through a consortium, bid for Nigerian assets from the Brazilian oil company Petrobras.
A baby was mortally wounded when she got a baseball on her skull.
In Syria, some military bases have been targeted by rocket attacks, according to the Syrian army. It is not clear who is responsible for the attacks. The Syrian state television showed images of some heavy rock explosions, including in the neighborhood of Hama and Aleppo. An Iranian militia would also be stationed in Hama.
A rock that crashed in the desert in Sudan in 2008 was a remnant of an ancient vanished planet. Swiss scientists have examined the meteorite and come to that conclusion.
A market trader in the British Lymington may no longer scream his merchandise. He got a screaming ban imposed after the complaints rained about his pruning sales method.
A French judge has virtually frozen the entire legacy of French rock star Johnny Hallyday Friday. The surviving relatives argue about their distribution.
The crash with a car on California's Highway 1, which completely wiped out a family of eight, was, according to the police, a deliberate act. The analysis of the vehicle data and on-site evidence would have revealed no evidence of an accident, said Greg Baarts of the California Highway Patrol.
Two people were killed in a rock avalanche at the Italian-Swiss border. The rocks blew over a road and a railway line at the village of Re near the Swiss border. Certainly one car was dragged along dozens of meters. The two occupants have been killed as a result. It is about Swiss, reported Italian media Monday.
Shell has acquired the rights for the exploration of another four offshore fields in Brazil. With this, the oil and gas company extends its presence to eighteen deep water fields in Brazil.
A car containing two 39-year-old women and three children has fallen from a cliff thirty meters high on the Californian coast. The five did not survive the horrendous accident.
Royal Dutch Shell has indicted its own former employee to the Dutch authorities because of the suspicions of illegal activities in the sale of an oil field in Nigeria in 2011.
Shell sells its 20 percent interest in the West Qurna 1 Iraqi oil field at the Japanese Itochu. Messages about the sale did the round earlier and it was waiting for the usual approval. Shell receives for an amount of 406 million dollars (329 million euros). The debt of $ 144 million is also part of the agreement.
Shell can benefit from a tax measure on a large gas field in British Colombia. The Canadian province wants to support the Shell project for lng.
A distant space rock that will receive a visit from the earth next year has been given a name. The block 2014 MU69, past Pluto, is now called Ultima Thule. For the Greeks and Romans, Thule was a mythical island in the far north. Ultima Thule, which means 'beyond Thule', indicates that the probe goes 'beyond the limits of the known world'.
Royal Dutch Shell, according to energy experts, is threatening to lose the exploitation of the large gas supply for the Australian coast from the Japanese Inpex.
Thieves have stolen the tooth of a megalodon in Australia, a huge shark species that died about 1.6 million years ago. The fossil disappeared from a national park, reports Australian media.
The 41-year-old Mike D., who is suspected of being the peeper of Ghent, turns out to be the father of a daughter, IT specialist and a popular guitarist.
Oil cartel OPEC disintegrates into camps. Internally, a battle has broken out about the desirable price that the fourteen countries are going to introduce. Saudi Arabia and Iran are diametrically opposed.
The Belgian coast next Saturday is the setting for the first Grote Schelpenteldag. Scientists call everyone to come to the beach to help map the biodiversity of the coast.
An American space probe has made the farthest picture ever. At 6.1 billion kilometers from Earth, beyond Pluto, the New Horizons made a few images. First one of a so-called open star cluster (nicknamed De Wensput), then of two boulders that revolve around the sun.
ExxonMobil, the largest oil producer in the US, states that it will produce all its stocks of fossil fuels such as crude oil and gas. The competitor of Shell will look ahead to halfway through this century.
