Sailing day-trippers must now admire lava flows in Hawaii from at least 300 meters away. The American Coast Guard has imposed new restrictions on skippers on round trip boats after an incident at the Kilauea volcano. A lump of hot lava fell on a boat with tourists, resulting in 23 wounded.
A South Korean company thinks it has found the wreck of a Russian battleship that sank 113 years ago. According to South Korean media, the naval vessel may have billions of gold on board.
A tidal wave of about 1.5 flooded Tuesday morning asked the beaches on holiday island of Mallorca and the nearby Menorca.
Thirteen tourists in Hawaii were injured when the boat they were on was hit by flying lava. The red hot matter landed on the roof of the boat. American media speak of a 'lava bomb'. One person is in serious condition.
In the new constitution of communist Cuba, private property is recognized again. That is what state media report on the island.
In the Mediterranean, 450 migrants were rescued from a wooden boat that sailed near the Italian island of Linosa. They were transferred on Saturday morning to a ship of the Italian police and a Frontex ship, the EU agency that coordinates controls at the external borders of the European Union.
The South Korean air force reports that it has intercepted two Russian fighter jets on Friday, which have violated four times the airspace of the Asian country. Russian aircraft flew along the South Korean east coast and the waters off the southern island of Jeju.
The 47-year-old Burney F. from Curaçao was sentenced on Friday to a 26-year prison sentence for involvement in the murder of politician Helmin Wiels. According to the court, F. acted as 'murderer' in the murder.
Rescue workers have rediscovered bodies from the water in the vicinity of the Thai island of Phuket on Saturday, where a boat with Chinese tourists capsized and sank earlier this week. According to the Chinese news agency Xinhua, the death toll has now risen to 42. Fourteen of 105 passengers are still missing.
The death toll due to the extreme weather in Japan has risen to fifteen. Approximately fifty people are still missing. At least 1.6 million people had to be evacuated. That is what Japanese media report.
At least ten people were killed in a boat accident near the Thai island of Phuket. Dozens of other people, especially Chinese tourists, are still missing, reports the newspaper Bangkok Post.
In Japan, two people died as a result of extreme rain showers. Hundreds of thousands of inhabitants in the west and middle of the country have been evacuated because of the rainfall rivers flood and there is a danger of landslides
The death toll due to the shipping accident in Indonesia has risen to 31. Some 130 passengers on the inoperative ferry have been rescued, says an official from the Ministry of Transport. Three people are still missing.
A Russian who had been reported missing by her family appears to have been bobbing for 21 hours on the open sea off the coast of the Greek island of Crete. The woman sought refreshment with her airbed, but drifted further and further from the beach by a strong current.
Holidaymakers who are going to Spain soon may have to be careful on Mallorca. A white shark was spotted near the city. According to scientists, that is remarkable: the last time the white shark was seen was thirty years ago.
The Indonesian rescue service has found human remains in Lake Toba using underwater drones. The remains are probably from passengers of the ferry that sank there eleven days ago.
The airport of the Indonesian tourist island of Bali is closed until Friday at 1 pm Dutch time due to the emission of volcanic ash. This is caused by an eruption of the volcano Agung that blows a 2.5 km high smoke plume, says an employee from the local emergency service.
The 82-year-old Masafumi Nagasaki is not allowed to return to the island where he has been living voluntarily for thirty years. His last wish was to die there, but the Japanese government does not allow this.
A federal jury in Boston considers an elderly ex-Mafia boss of the Cosa Nostra in New England guilty of the murder of a nightclub owner in 1993. The body was buried in Rhode Island and discovered only two years ago.
Spain is prepared to provide Malta with humanitarian aid for a boat sailing with more than 200 migrants on board in the vicinity of the island state. That is what a government spokeswoman in Madrid announced after the Cabinet meeting.
A judge in Sri Lanka has ordered the arrest of villagers who have bludgeoned a leopard. The predator, which is a protected species in the country, had recently escaped government officials who wanted to bring the animal to safety.
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.
Five Tigers who have been rescued from a circus in Spain have been given a new place to live thanks to the AAP Foundation. The animals move to a zoo on the English Isle of Wight.
The oldest Sumatran orangutan in the world died at the age of 62 in the Perth zoo. That is what Australian media report.
A hat that the French emperor Napoleon left behind on the battlefield of Waterloo will be auctioned in Lyon on Monday. The so-called stitch was taken away by the Dutch Baron Arnout Jacques Van Zuijlen Van Nijevelt after the defeat of Napoleon in Waterloo.
Tourists in the normally idyllic Corfu see their holidays ruined by a pervasive stench. The reason: the island is largely hidden under a layer of waste. And that starts to smell bad.
The body of a 54-year-old woman was found in an eight-meter long Python. Her children found the snake, with a huge bump in his stomach, near their village on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
An American fighter plane crashed in Japanese waters on Monday. This happened during a training mission near the southern island of Okinawa, where some of the American forces are stationed in Japan.
A North Korean delegation arrived in Singapore on Saturday evening in the run-up to the summit meeting between North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and US President Trump. According to local media, the delegation went to the St. Regis Hotel, where Kim is likely to move in on Sunday.
Chinese hackers have broken into the computers of a company that works for the US Navy. As a result, sensitive information has been captured, including plans for a supersonic torpedo that can be fired from submarines on enemy ships. The system should be operational by 2020. The Washington Post writes this Friday.
