Firefighters fail to take control of a large forest fire in northern California. The fires in the Shasta-Trinity Forest have become 'aggressive violent' with flames over 90 meters high according to local media on Thursday evening. The fires block 80 kilometers of the major Interstate 5 motorway running through California from north to south.
The wife and three-year-old son of a British scientist fight for their lives after being attacked by a giraffe. Reportedly, the animal wanted to protect her young.
A court in South Sudan sentenced ten soldiers of that country to prison sentences for the rape of foreign aid workers and the murder of a local journalist in 2016. The prison sentences range from seven years to life imprisonment.
Israel closes its embassy in Paraguay. The country is doing this in protest because Paraguay is relocating its embassy in Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.
The leaders of North and South Korea hold a summit from 18 to 20 September. That is what both countries have announced. The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un also stated that the Korean peninsula will have been denuclearized as an American president within the first term of Donald Trump.
Paraguay moves its embassy in Israel back from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. The government of the new president Mario Abdo Benítez finds the decision of the predecessor of Abdo, Horacio Cartes, unwise and undiplomatic.
Samsung is working on a new folding mobile phone. The South Korean electronics company plans to unveil the new model in November, the top man of the Dong-Jin Koh mobile division told the CNBC television channel.
A South Korean delegation met with the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Wednesday. The South Koreans had brought a personal letter from President Moon Jae-in for the dictator, message Yonhap news agency.
African presidents like Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa), Uhuru Kenyatta (Kenya) and Paul Kagame (Rwanda) are pleased with the plan of China to invest another 52 billion euros in the continent.
The tropical storm Gordon may grow into a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico before it lands in the southeast of the American state of Louisiana. That happens late or early Wednesday morning early, is the expectation.
The international community wants to spend more than 1.7 billion euros extra for aid to the crisis area around Lake Chad. During a donor conference in Berlin, the needy population of one of the poorest regions in the world was pledged about three times as much as a year ago at a similar meeting in Oslo.
The fence is from the dam in South America. Distraught refugees from Venezuela flood their neighbors. Ecuador and Peru increase the requirements for entrants. Care providers fear only more illegal border crossings.
A missing toddler of 1.5 years old, after five days without food and drink, is found alive in a forest in the south of China. The toddler had gone into the forest on her own and a day later her father gave her up as missing.
The episodes of Anthony's Bourdain show Parts Unknown in which his girlfriend Asia Argento was shown, have been taken offline by CNN. The actress, who turned out to be one of the voices of the MeToo movement, is accused of sexual abuse of a minor.
The police in South Pasadena have called in two investigators to inspect the death of Vanessa Marquez. The ER actress was shot dead by police officers on Thursday after she aimed a 'realistic-looking fake gun' at them.
At least four hundred prisoners were escaped from a jail in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Sunday after a prison revolt. That reports the local police.
In the fight against peeping, the South Korean capital Seoul is going to inspect daily whether there are no hidden cameras in public toilets. The city council has announced the ambitious plan on Sunday, reports the South Korean news agency Yonhap.
In a bus accident in the Andes mountains in Ecuador at least eleven people were killed. Among the dead is a baby of less than a year old. In addition, at least 37 people were injured, reports the Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo.
The best, the biggest and the fastest. These are the goals that the Chinese Huawei has in mind and it is well on the way to reach them. At the electronics fair IFA in Berlin, CEO Richard Yu introduced the Kirin 980, the most advanced 'brain' of a smartphone ever.
A wounded baby rhinoceros, which watched over his dead mother, was saved by conservationists in the Kruger National Park in South Africa. The white rhino was killed by poachers who were out on her horns, and injured her baby during the struggle.
The Argentine peso was under heavy pressure again on Thursday and lost almost 5 percent in value against the dollar. The country has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to accelerate an earlier pledged emergency loan of 50 billion dollars. According to Argentine President Mauricio Macri, this is necessary to secure financing for 2019 and to prevent a new crisis in the South American country.
Drivers who work via Chinese taxi apps have broadcast images of unsuspecting passengers live via the internet. A Chinese video site is now taking action against such practices and is forbidding the drivers from making such clips from customers any longer, according to the South China Morning Post newspaper.
A bus accident in the vicinity of Cape Town killed at least eight people on Thursday. Approximately 30 passengers were injured. The death toll can still rise because passengers are still trapped under the overturned vehicle. The chief of the traffic police of the Western Cape province said this in the South African media.
The fighters who still control the northwestern Syrian Idlib province must be eliminated there soon. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this after an interview with his Saudi colleague Adel bin Ahmed al-Jubeir. Lavrov spoke about 'terrorists who form a tumor.'
The south of the Philippines has been startled by two attacks. In a village in the province of Sultan Kudarat, three soldiers were killed by an explosion. Not far from there, in the city of Isulan, a home-made bomb, hidden under a motorcycle, was detonated before a day in the local media.
The South African police started a manhunt after three lions were found dead on a farm in Limpopo province. The head and legs were cut off with two lions.
The Zimbabwean opposition leader Nelson Chamisa refuses to accept his election defeat. He claims to have a 'legitimate claim' on the leadership of his country.
On Wednesday night in the US, Trump twittered that he had asked Foreign Affairs Minister Pompeo to study carefully the 'land and farm expropriation' and the 'large-scale murder of farmers' in South Africa. He responded to a broadcast by Fox News, in which the intention of the South African president Cyril Ramaphosa was discussed to change the constitution to simplify the expropriation of farms.
The coalition fighting the Houthi rebels in Yemen under the leadership of Saudi Arabia has killed one of the leaders of the movement. According to the Al Arabiya news channel, it is Ali Hussein Sheiba Bazli, one of the co-founders. He was killed on the Friday south of the city of Saada.
Some of the people who had to leave their homes because of the large forest fire in southwest Brandenburg can return home. The evacuation of the village of Frohnsdorf was lifted on Friday afternoon, said Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke of the German state during a visit to the area.
