North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has promised to work for better ties with the south of the peninsula. He did that a few days after one of his main negotiators with Seoul in unclear circumstances was killed.
The Danish Prince Consort Henrik loves the royal ceremony before seen. The 81-year-old husband of Queen Margrethe is as of January 1 officially retired, as announced Thursday by the Queen in her New Year's speech, which was broadcast live on TV.
The weather gets colder in the Arctic. After a 'heat wave', where near freezing temperatures were reached, Thursday was 15 degrees below zero. Normally, it freezes at this time of the year 30 to 40 degrees.
China is a second aircraft carrier to the building. Designed in their own country, according to the Defense Ministry in Beijing Thursday. It is not known if the ship has to sail.
Japan does not give exemplary damages to South Korean women who were sexually before and during World War abused by Japanese soldiers. The two countries reached there a few days ago an agreement, but Japan does not pay yet.
Two men are in Bangladesh Thursday sentenced to death because they killed an atheist blogger in 2013. The killers were members of a radical Islamic movement. Its leader was given five years in prison, media reported on the South Asian country.
The effects of El Niño, the weather phenomenon that occurs every two to seven years, will next year according to the US space agency NASA are at least as bad as in 1998. The threat of hunger and disease for millions of people will be there in 2016 by increase set aid organizations.
Apple wants oled displays for future iPhones and Samsung will manufacture these screens. Reported that the South Korean magazine Electronic Times Wednesday, according to Apple Insider.
Severe weather, what storm? While large parts of northern England and south-west Scotland for the second time in a week time are white, the top official in charge of limiting flood damage has yet to return from vacation.
A high-ranking official and advisor to the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is deceased in a car accident. That made the state news agency KCNA announced on Wednesday local time.
That US presidential candidate Donald Trump is a wealthy man and has no problems to finance his campaign, is another example of his intention to place large ads. This should in states such as Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina appear where the new year is going to be voted on first in the preliminaries of the American elections.
In the flood area in the north of England is a bridge collapsed after day-long rain. The bridge in the town of 7000 inhabitants Tadcaster in Yorkshire broke down Tuesday night and plunged into the River Wharfe.
Spanish police have a mentally retarded man of 59 years freed from a cage in the south of the country. He was there with his brother and sister locked up 'for his own safety', while they conceded his monthly pension of one thousand euro.
Samsung is planning the availability of its mobile payment system in the United States to increase significantly in 2016. Users need while shopping online can pay with Samsung Pay. Even more smartphones will support the electronic purse.
Venezuela is now the most dangerous country in Latin America. It has this year was a sad record with approximately 27 875 people who died a violent death. This was reported by the Venezuelan Observatory of Violence. Which states that Venezuela with more than 90 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants violence Central America Honduras surpasses.
While areas in northern England the floods of recent days are barely above is again bad weather ahead. Britain's national weather institute warns again for heavy rain and strong winds that draw from Tuesday night on the north of the country.
A fifty police officer on Monday in Puerto Rico killed three colleagues. The man opened in a police barracks in Ponce on the south coast of the Caribbean island of fire on his colleagues. Two women and a man aged 42 to 49 have been killed.
An Amsterdam school of nearly one million kilos in recent days shifted 30 meters. The last 5 meters are Monday bridged successfully, the municipality has announced. The school on the South Axis had to move a lot, so he at a newly constructed second part came to be.
The British defense against floods must be completely overhauled. That said, the British government environmental organization Monday. According to the agency must be made watertight and better homes, the country needs a better warning.
Samsung plans to produce nearly 5 million units of the new smartphone Galaxy S7 before it is launched in February. Reported that the South Korean magazine Electronic Times.
The South African writer Chris Barnard is deceased Monday at the age of 76. He died of a heart attack, reported South African media.
The 53-year-old Briton John Beeden is the first person successfully non-stop to row across the Pacific. The tour began on June 1st in San Francisco and ended Monday after 209 days in the Australian Cairns. Beeden, who said that there were moments when he did not go to, grew an average of 15 hours a day and came nowhere between ashore.
Japan and South Korea have reached an agreement on a years long dispute on the issue of slavery of women into brothels by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. This left the South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung Se know Monday after meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida Minister.
US arms exports has grown tremendously in 2014. According to a new research report from the Congressional sales grew by about 35 percent to 33 billion euros converted. The year before, led the US for less than a euro 25 billion on arms.
A 92-year-old Argentine, who thought that after nearly forty years had found her granddaughter disappeared in 1976, a rude awakening has come home. A DNA test showed that it still goes to someone else.
Northwest England struggling for the second time in a month's time with major flooding. Elsewhere in the world it is not a standard in December again.
An estimated 130,000 people are due to heavy rainfall and high water levels in the South American Paraguay on the run from the water. The large flows of the rivers Paraguay, Paraná, and Uruguay Quarai entered by the extremely wet weather far beyond their banks and cause a nuisance in their catchment areas in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
A man sat in a large shopping center in south London panic caused by a machete or another sword. Local media reported that numerous people uitvluchtten shopping center in Bromley and feared a terrorist attack.
The evacuation of Islamic fighters and their families from an area in the south of the capital Damascus has been averted. This was reported by a Lebanese TV station of the group Hezbollah.
Anonymous Internet can still anonymous. Before that, the Dutch student Jelle van den Hooff (24) developed a completely new network. This should make it much harder for hackers and intelligence agencies to spy on people. Thanks to the vuvuzela.
