Twelve people have been rescued southeast of Cuba by the crew of a cruise ship. The Disney Wonder was last weekend, according to CNN on the way to the Cayman Islands when the rickety boat was discovered with the Cubans.
Six members of a human trafficking gang convicted in Italy for the death of hundreds of people on board a refugee ship in the Mediterranean. The court in Palermo put the Eritrean condemned prison sentences of between two and six years on, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. It was the first time that the Italian court dismissed a case against traffickers sentence.
North Korea Sunday to anger neighboring countries and the United States launched a long-range missile. The projectile was fired, according to the South Korean Defense Ministry from a base in the northwest of the neighboring country.
Rescuers continue to pull survivors under the rubble in the Taiwanese city of Tainan. A powerful earthquake occurred Saturday as a building collapse. At least five people, including a baby of ten days, died. Three hundred people ended up injured in hospital. The fear is the death toll will rise further.
There is likely a large part of the German island of Sylt abort. Winter storms leave the seawater continues to wash over the island. The grassy southern tip of the island, called Hörnumer Odde, is slowly disappearing entirely at sea, reports local television station Sylt TV Friday.
The Sakurajima volcano in southern Japan has erupted Friday with much violence. Lava spurted in fountains up and flowed down the slopes of the mountain down, reports the Japanese meteorological service.
A British tourist is in Thailand trampled to death by an elephant. The horrific accident happened in front of his 16-year-old daughter.
Helen Bilton, the boss of the British company The Group Company, its staff can not go wrong. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the company from York, Bilton took over all 32 employees on a package holiday at a five-star hotel in Barbados.
Certainly ten migrants have drowned when the boat in which they were sunk off the coast of Turkey.
David Bowie has $ 100 million (over 92 million) and left most of it goes to his family.
The American and British intelligence intercepted years of secret information from Israeli military drones. Espionage yielded data about covert operations conducted by the Israeli army in Gaza and beyond Iran and Syria.
Again there are refugees in the Aegean Sea drowned trying to sail to Greece. At least eleven people were killed Thursday when their boat capsized while attempting to reach the island of Samos. It has informed the Greek coast guard.
In the search for the plane flight MH370 that went missing nearly two years ago, Sunday sunk a sonar device. The device was equipped with a tow rope attached to one of the vessels is being used for the search. The cable broke in that it came into contact with a volcano mud on the seabed, made the international search team JACC Sunday known.
On a beach in southern Thailand Saturday is a piece of a plane wreck washed up. The Thai media now speculate that sometimes the disappeared nearly two years ago, Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 might be.
Aegean has replayed Friday morning refugee drama. After the capsizing of a boat, the Greek coast guard discovered seven bodies at the island Farmakonisi. Six of them were children.
Certainly disappeared twelve people, including five children, have Thursday off the coast of Turkey refugees drowned when the boat capsized and where they were in the waves of the Aegean Sea. The Turkish coastguard managed to rescue 26 people.
Yasutaro Koide, born on March 13, 1903 and with its 112 years the oldest man in the world, is deceased this morning.
It may finally look like winter in the Netherlands, yet you have to cross the border to encounter real winter scenes.
The tens of thousands of refugees since the start of 2016 in Europe have arrived, have a new enemy in: the fast spreading of the frost.
The two dead sperm whales over a week ago washed up on the German island of Wangerooge, could barely get food. In their stomach are just parts of a squid found. That said the Dutch paleontologist Aart Walen.
The 57 passengers and crew from a burning ferry off the coast of New Zealand are all rescued, police said Monday. Two people were taken to hospital. An inhaled smoke, another is injured by jumping into the water.
There are hundreds of people saved who crossed from Turkey with Aegean boats to reach Greece. Friday and Saturday, rescuers of the European border security Frontex organization rescued 363 migrants and refugees, the Greek coast guard reported Sunday.
Off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Oahu search the US Marine Corps and Coast Guard Sunday to twelve marines who were missing after a collision between two helicopters in the night from Thursday to Friday. The Coast Guard is warning residents of the island of potentially dangerous debris that can wash ashore.
Two military aircraft collided with each other and crashed north of the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
An American B-52 bomber flew low over Sunday South Korea. The flight was a 'response to recent provocative actions by North Korea,' the US military announced. This is presumably a reference to the nuclear test carried out the Stalinist country.
On the German island of Wangerooge two dead sperm whale washed ashore. The largest is 13 meters long, the other 12 meters. The animals lie on a sandbank for the beach and can only be reached at low tide, said a spokesman for nature conservation organization Mellumrat Saturday.
The internet on the Scottish island of Skye is so slow, that it is faster and easier to send an old-fashioned letter. For example, a photographer decided to burn the images to CD and send it to the customers. It takes a few days, but it's still faster than upload.
The atomic bombs were dropped in 1945 on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are nothing compared to the damage that can cause a hydrogen bomb. That says nuclear expert Sico van der Meer of the Clingendael Institute. North Korea claimed Wednesday to have tested the bomb. If that's true, it's in the eyes of the regime is a huge step forward.
The bodies of 21 refugees washed ashore Tuesday on two places on the Turkish coast of the Aegean Sea. Three of the dead were children.
