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Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin empire, is going to study as an astronaut.

Bill Browder has only one goal in his life: justice for his Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitski. He died in 2009 in a Russian cell. Killed by guards, according to Browder. He is now committed to the Magnitski law. This ensures that people who grossly violate human rights or commit corruption on a large scale can no longer enter a country and their assets are frozen.

Berlin prepares for a turbulent Sunday. The populist party AfD holds a large demonstration in the center and has provoked thirteen counter-demonstrations. The police will be massively present to prevent the activists from encountering each other in the streets of the German capital.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrived in Brussels on his private plane on Tuesday afternoon. He will be welcomed in the European Parliament around 6 pm, where the American is expected to answer questions about his company's role in the abuse of private users' data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal for about an hour.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has 'strong indications' that the outbreak of ebola in Congo 'can be brought under control.' The organization does not see the new outbreak of the deadly virus as an international emergency at the moment. From Sunday, emergency services will vaccinate people in risk areas with an experimental vaccine.

The navigation systems in our cars will be controlled via Noordwijk in a while. Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Minister of Infrastructure and Public Works, put a part of the new European navigation network into use on Wednesday.

People from outside Europe who have to apply for a visa to visit the Schengen countries will be checked more thoroughly in the future. Especially due to safety and migration risks, they are taken by various information systems.

Britons who want to catch a glimpse of the British Prince Harry and his bride Meghan Markle on Saturday have to get out early. The public was asked to travel to Windsor by public transport. Great Western Railway (GWR) calls on travelers to leave well in time, due to the expected crowds.

The Turkish authorities have arrested dozens of foreigners who would have ties with the terrorist organization IS. Anti-terrorist units in Istanbul met at the same time buildings in thirteen districts, say sources within the police against the Turkish state press agency Anadolu.

The American customs intercepted a special cargo on Monday. Three people tried to smuggle a tiger cub across the border. The beast was stuffed into a backpack.

Kangaroos with sugar addiction regularly attract tourists in eastern Australia. That is what local media reports on Wednesday. They have become accustomed to all the goodies they are getting and can get very aggressive when they see something tasty.

The British parliament still wants Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg to testify. The members of the parliamentary committee for digital affairs, culture, media and sports write this in a letter to Zuckerberg on Tuesday. If the CEO of the social media company does not want that, then the MPs will have him summoned so that he will have to appear before Parliament the next time he sets foot on British soil.

David Goodall, the oldest scientist in Australia, no longer wants to live and flies to Switzerland this week to put an end to his life. Goodall says he has no other choice because his quality of life has deteriorated. 'It is a pity that I have become so old.'

A caravan migrant from Central American countries has arrived in the Mexican town of Tijuana on the border with the US. It concerns about four hundred people from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador who are now considering the next steps.

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has a flying start as a minister. After not reporting twelve hours after his appointment at NATO in Brussels on Friday, he arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, at the beginning of a short journey through the Middle East.

North Korea, through leader Kim Jong-un, offered 'deep apologies' to China for the bus accident during which 36 people died, including 32 Chinese tourists. The bodies of the victims are transported to China on Thursday by train.

Of course Margaret Tyler should not be missing at the birth of a new royal prince. The 74-year-old inhabitant of North London is called the 'most loyalist royalist' of the United Kingdom. And so she is 'so excited' with the birth of a new prince.

Two Britons were arrested on Mallorca after they repeatedly left their two children at the hotel to get together in one of the local bars. Hotel guests were seriously concerned about the girls aged 4 and 11 years old.

Approximately one hundred supporters of the militant right-wing movement Generatie Identitair occupied the col de l'Echelle on Saturday to stop migrants who tried to enter France via the 1,762-meter high pass.

A 12-year-old boy from Australia, after an altercation with his mother, used her credit card to fly to Bali.

The party is over in Israel. The day after the celebration of 70 years of independence, the Gaza Strip is once again the scene of bloody riots and the Israelis get a painful stab in the back of one of their most beloved compatriots: the Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman refuses to travel to Israel for the ' Jewish Nobel Prize 'to receive.

More and more refugees are entering Greece via the border river Evros. 'Since March more than 1000 people have crossed the river', warns the Red Cross. The aid organization states that last week it involved more than a hundred people a day.

The Berlin Central Station will be evacuated on Friday to clear a bomb from the Second World War. An important part of the center is also shut down while the bomb of 500 kilos is made harmless.

A video of a gross robbery of tourists in Suriname raises the question whether this is an incident, or warp and woof. While the Surinamese authorities are deploying extra police in the area around the Marowijne River, the travel industry is defending the country's security.

Holiday flights to Cyprus and Israel from the Netherlands will continue as usual. The rising tension due to the Syria crisis does not yet have any influence on the operation

The United States is conducting feverish consultations with France and Great Britain about military action against Syria. After the harsh words of Donald Trump yesterday, who warned that the 'missiles are coming', America has left the door ajar for a diplomatic solution. 'We study all options,' said the spokeswoman for the White House. But it is expected that the diplomatic door will be slammed quickly and hard.

US President Donald Trump has canceled a summit in South America this week to focus on the crisis in Syria.

An agreement has been reached in Syria to release all prisoners who are being held by rebels who control the city of Douma in East Ghouta. In return, the fighters are allowed to leave the city, reported the Syrian state television Sunday, with reference to an official source.

A 100 percent Muslim state and men and women must travel separately on public transport. The Belgian party Islam comes with controversial plans in the run-up to the municipal elections in the autumn. This to anger of voters and other politicians. 'No sharia. Not now. Never ever.'

Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's company for space tourism, has again started test flights of a new spaceship. The pilot plane VSS Unity flew to more than 25 kilometers altitude and then landed safely on earth. It was the first test flight since a fatal accident in 2014.