Nearly eight thousand migrants have voluntarily returned from Greece to their homeland since the beginning of this year. The Greek police announced this in Athens on Tuesday.
Adriano owes his life to a serious accident. In the hospital they discovered a large tumor in his head.
A day after the heavy earthquake at Lombok, foreign tourists try to leave the Indonesian island on Monday. There are long lines of waiting at Mataram airport and airline Garuda is using additional flights.
The pension fund of the European Parliament is quickly emptied and will meet a thousand ex-parliamentarians.
The heat does not want to give way in Japan. On Wednesday, eight people succumbed to the enormous heat that holds many parts of the country in its grip. More than two thousand people ended up in hospital on Wednesday because they were unwell because of the heat.
A heat wave killed five people in Japan and 1500 people had to be admitted to the hospital. It was the hottest in Hiroshima. In that region the mercury increased to 38 degrees, Japanese media reported.
The Belgian electronics chain Krëfel must pay thousands of Belgians their purchase price for their new television. The chain had promised as a marketing stunt that if the Red Devils scored more than fifteen goals they would get their money back. On Saturday, Belgium convincingly defeated England with 2-0. That brought the total number of goals to sixteen.
It looked like an innocent World Cup stunt from the Belgian electronics business: if Belgium were to make more than fifteen goals at the World Cup, all buyers of a 55-inch TV would get their purchase price back. So much has been scored on only two World Cups since the eighties: once by Germany (2010) and once by Brazil (2002).
Friday, dozens of people were killed by two bombings at election meetings in Pakistan. Most of the victims, 128, fell through an attack in the southern province of Baluchistan.
More than five thousand years after his death, it became clear what was the last meal of Ötzi the IJsman, the famous frozen mummy found in the Alps. Ötzi ate fat meat, grain and fern shortly before his death.
At least 30 people were wounded Wednesday night in the French city of Nice during the quarter finals of the WC between France and Belgium. Dozens of people fled when pops were heard. The sounds, however, appeared to come from firecrackers that were chipped in the middle of the mass.
World Animal Protection wants all fishnets to be provided with a personal label in 2025. The international animal protection organization calls on the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations at the start of an international meeting in Rome to make the labeling of fishing nets compulsory in the fight against the massive death of animals through the nets.
The death toll due to the heavy rainfall in Japan has risen to at least 66. Sundays, too, rivers ran off their banks, forcing millions of people to leave their homes, Japanese media report. Dozens of people are still missing.
A 48-year-old apothecary from Bottrop, Germany, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for smoking with cancer drugs for more than a thousand patients. The court in Essen found that the man rummaged with more than 14,000 medicines to maintain his luxury lifestyle.
In Japan, the former leader of the sect Aum Shinrikyo, who was behind the attack with the nerve gas sarin in the Tokyo metro in 1995, was put to death. Shoko Asahara, is the first of thirteen sect members sentenced to death who were executed, confirmed the secretary of the cabinet.
The Spanish police have made more than one hundred arrests in a major action against the Armenian mafia. The suspects would have dealt with, among other things, illegal cigarette smuggling, car robberies, burglaries and match fixing.
The twelve boys and their football coach were found alive in a cave system in Thailand. The team had been missing for nine days.
Detainees serving a long prison sentence must lose their social housing.
The Belgian justice and police have thwarted a terrorist attack in France according to Belgian media. They intercepted a couple of Iranian descent in the Brussels municipality of Sint-Pieters-Woluwe, which would have wanted to strike a meeting of an Iranian opposition party near Paris.
Rescue workers in Thailand are approaching the spot where a youth football team may be stuck in a flooded cave system. Divers of an army unit are less than 500 meters from the space where the twelve teenagers and their coach may have sought a safe haven.
Thai Seals yesterday succeeded in penetrating a little deeper into the flooded cave complex, where twelve teenagers and their football coach have been missing for more than a week. After days of heavy rainfall, the weather is finally favorable and the water level in the cave, located near Chiang Rai, has decreased slightly.
Richard Summerfruit was clean. Ready for a while with heroin. Until, after a concert visit with his girlfriend in San Diego, he was left alone on the toilet. He was dead not much later. The blue pill that the twenties swallowed is the Percocet known in America or the opioid Oxycodone. But the fatal tablet bought on the street turned out to contain something completely different: fentanyl.
An American 'trophy hunter' goes viral on social media after she places photos of a giraffe shot on social media, accompanied by commentary that makes nature conservation fierce.
The gorilla who became famous for sign language was deceased in her sleep. Koko was 46 years old. The Gorilla Foundation has announced this in Woodside, Florida. The western lowland gorilla was born on 4 July 1971 at the San Francisco zoo as Hanabi-ko, Japanese for 'fireworks child'.
The United Nations wants the Donald Trump government to stop divorcing immigrant children from their parents immediately. Said Ra'ad al-Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, called American immigrant policy 'unscrupulous.'
A rabid red lynx who attacked a 46-year-old woman in Hart County, Georgia, must have paid for it with death. The firm Dede Phillips strangled the aggressive animal with her bare hands.
Since the introduction of a stricter policy in mid-April, nearly two thousand refugee children, who have entered the US illegally from Mexico, have been separated from their parents. US media reports this on the basis of figures from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The talks between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump started at the Capella Hotel in Singapore. A serious handshake preceded the meeting, leaving Trump his jovial stance. Kim laughed cautiously while Trump kept his face tight for a long time. Then he led Kim with a big smile to the library where both men started their maintenance.
He is 48 years old, has a steady relationship for three years and has already shared the bed with over a thousand women. Seani Love lives in London and earns a living as a male escort. He gives the British newspaper The Sun a unique insight into his dream job.
