Thieves have stolen 123 young giant tortoises in the Galapagos Islands. The animals were taken from a breeding center on Isabela, the largest island of the Galapagos. The prosecution has started an investigation. The perpetrators can face up to ten years in prison if they are caught.
Jokers in the US have been diving over each other since yesterday to weather the weather forecasts.
The official death toll due to the earthquake and tsunami last Friday on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has risen from more than 1400 to 1558. This has been reported by the emergency response service.
On Wednesday, British Queen Elizabeth joined the long queue of Heads of State who expressed their sympathy to the Indonesian President Joko Widodo with the victims of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami on the island of Sulawesi.
During the earthquake and tsunami last Friday on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, 1407 people were killed. This has communicated the emergency response. The number of wounded has risen to over 2,500.
An eighteen-year-old miner was killed in a grizzly bear in Alaska. It is the second time this year that someone has been killed by a bear attack in the American state.
The Netherlands has made € 1 million available to help victims of the earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. This is what Minister Kaag (Development Cooperation) decided on Monday.
The Indonesian authorities supply relief goods and materiel after the earthquake and flood on Sulawesi. The emergency response service says it needs more heavy equipment and manpower to store bodies on the island.
Two days after the tsunami disaster on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, rescue workers rescued a woman from a collapsed hotel in the city of Palu. The woman was taken off the second floor of the hotel Roa Roa on Sunday, according to rescue workers.
The number of deaths as a result of an earthquake and a tidal wave in the northwest of Sulawesi rose to 1203. This is reported by the Indonesian news site Kumparan, which refers to the national police. The Indonesian authorities have not yet confirmed the number.
Detainees in a prison on Sulawesi have caused destruction and fire in the establishment when they were not allowed to search for family.
The number of victims of the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that hit the northwest of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has risen to more than four hundred.
The Red Cross opens giro 6868 for the victims of the earthquake and tsunami on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Hundreds of residents have died as a result, but the exact extent of the disaster is still unclear.
With the tsunami of today, the thoughts automatically return to Boxing Day in 2004, when the Netherlands was startled by the news of the severe seaquake near Indonesia. The resulting tsunami caused one of the biggest natural disasters of the past decades.
The Danish police closed important access roads to and from the country during a major operation on Friday. Two major bridges and boat connections with Sweden and Germany were shut down.
The Indonesian island of Sulawesi has been hit by two powerful earthquakes. Certainly one person was killed and at least ten other people were injured. 'We expect more damage and more victims,' stressed a spokesman for the emergency response service.
The trial against Jelle R., who is suspected of the murder of his compatriot Shannon Mak, will be continued on Tuesday on the island of Malta.
To remove her freckles she went for a routine laser treatment to a clinic, but the woman came home with burn marks spread all over her body. It happened to 52-year-old Maria Natale from Long Island.
A French research ship will probably reach the boat of the injured solo sailor Abhilash Tomy on Monday. He was in trouble on thousands of kilometers south-west of Australian Perth on Friday when his mast broke off during a storm. Since then the sailor has been reporting via text messages about his deteriorating state of health.
The Tanzanian authorities have certainly recovered 166 bodies after the ship's drama on Lake Victoria. That said Minister Isack Kamwelwe (Communication), who stated that survivors already started with the identification of deceased victims.
Greece will transfer 2000 migrants from a shelter on the island of Lesbos to the mainland before the end of the month. The Moria relief center accommodates between 2000 and 3000 refugees, but according to figures from the Greek government, there are now around 9000 people.
The number of deaths as a result of the capsized ferry on the Tanzanian part of Lake Victoria has increased to 136. A high police officer has reported this.
A British tourist who visited Tenerife is a big puzzle. After a night out, she got severe pain in her intimate zone. A visit to the emergency room quickly clarified: there was a tortoise in her vagina stuck.
A landslide has swallowed more than twenty dwellings on the Philippine island of Cebu. At least four people were killed, the authorities say. Rescue workers take into account that possibly dozens of other people are under the rubble.
A 45-year-old American from Long Island has completely broken through a defeat in the popular video game Fortnite. He sent an eleven-year-old boy a series of messages in which he threatened to open the fire at the house and at the young gamer's school.
A violent storm has blown a caravan on the Irish west coast with a woman in it from a cliff. In addition, the woman who was in her fifties was killed. The \u0026 # x27; Gardaí \u0026 # x27; (police) reported that after a long search the body was found not far from the village of Claddaghduff on a beach. The caravan was difficult to reach for rescuers despite the fact that the colossus did not end up in the sea.
Because of the hurricane Mangkhut, at least 65 people died in the Philippines. Especially in the north of the main island of Luzon many people have become victims of landslides. In a series of landslides, some 45 people are still missing in the province of Benguet, according to Filipino media.
The death toll in the Philippines by the typhoon Mangkhut has risen to thirteen. The authorities reported that five people were killed by a landslide in the northern city of Baguio. Five people are also missing in that area. Earlier, the authorities reported two deaths.
The Indonesian island of Lombok is facing a malaria outbreak after a series of earthquakes in July and August, causing hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes. The authorities have declared the emergency medical condition.
The heavy typhoon Mangkhut has reached the Philippines. The storm came to the land at Baggao in Luzon, the largest Philippine island.
