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The mother of John McCain, who died at the age of 81, will be the most notable guest at his funeral next week. She is now 106 years old.

A 29-year-old British mother died of the consequences of a butt lift operation in a Turkish plastic surgery clinic.

India wants to bring a person into space in a few years. The country hopes to bring three crew members into orbit around the earth by 2022. They would have to stay there for five to seven days at an altitude of 300 to 400 kilometers.

More and more Turks are fleeing their country and applying for asylum in Greece. In July alone, that happened 687 times, reports Greek media. Since the beginning of this year, Athens has already registered almost 2,000 Turks. According to a Coast Guard officer, the actual number is much larger, because many do not report to the authorities. They travel to Western or Central Europe.

After months of imprisonment in Turkey, the German Mesale Tolu has returned to Germany on Sunday. At the airport in Stuttgart Tolu said she can not be really happy about her release, because in Turkey hundreds of journalists, lawyers, students and political opponents of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are stuck.

A popular tourist hotel in Hurghada, Egypt, was evacuated after the mysterious death of two English guests.

The Ecuadorian government creates a humanitarian corridor for refugees from Venezuela. Through this corridor, the refugees are taken to the border with Peru by buses. Many Venezuelans try to travel on foot through the Andes country to Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

A 64-year-old woman who was on holiday at a beautiful resort in Hurghada, died of grief shortly after her husband suddenly died of a heart attack in the Egyptian seaside resort.

Hajj, the largest pilgrimage in the world, is about to begin. From Sunday evening to Friday evening, the Saudi city of Mecca will visit around three million Muslims from all parts of the world, including several thousand pilgrims from the Netherlands.

The Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavusoglu says he and EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans talk about speeding up visa-free travel for Turkish residents and about normalization of mutual relations.

An 81-year-old woman complained to Thomas Cook because in her hotel in Benidorm there were 'too many Spaniards'.

The British writer Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, better known as U.S. Naipaul, died at the age of 85. His family made that known, reports The Guardian. He died in his home in London.

Co-founder Maria Alyokhina of the activist Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot hopes to perform in De Oosterpoort in Groningen in January. She has a program in which she tells others about the original group, which in 2012 made the world press with a protest in a church in Moscow against the conditions under which Russian elections were held. The action against church and Kremlin gave her a prison sentence.

Ecuador has declared a state of emergency because of the unusually large number of Venezuelan migrants crossing the northern border with Colombia. The Venezuelans flee their country because of the economic crisis.

The man who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, filed a request to have all the conditions that were imposed on him two years ago after his discharge from a psychiatric hospital.

The German government has reached a final agreement with Spain to take back migrants more quickly. A spokeswoman for the German Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday that the negotiations have been completed.

One of the most daring missions of the Israeli secret service is now being filmed at Red Sea Diving Resort. The breathtaking operation saved the lives of thousands of Ethiopian Jews in the 1980s, reports the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague advises people to travel to the Indonesian island of Lombok and the nearby Gili Islands.

The Turkish lira was slightly up in value on Tuesday after the heavy loss of Monday. Traders provide a new sales spurt in the afternoon. Possible diplomatic consultation in the US offers some relief.

A Turkish government delegation will travel to the United States within two days to try to solve the problems between the two countries. CNN Türk reports this on the basis of diplomatic sources. According to CNN Türk, the United States and Turkey have already agreed conditions for the meeting on certain points.

The Greek police arrested dozens of migrants who were in possession of false papers in less than a week. They tried to travel to destinations elsewhere in Europe, the police reported Monday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited his American counterpart Donald Trump to visit Moscow. The Russian leader said at a top of emerging economies (BRICS countries) in South Africa also to be willing to travel to Washington for consultation.

It is a heart-warming story. Cats Bolt and Keel were dumped as Kittens in a bunch behind a trash can. Now they travel around the world with their new owners. The adventures of the duo and their owners are recorded on their Instagram page.

In the last 24 hours before the start of the final of the World Cup, 4600 Croatians from the government quickly received a passport or other valid travel document. That makes it possible for them to travel to Russia to attend the competition.

In recent months, some 20,000 migrants have voluntarily returned to their homeland with international support from Libya. This is shown by figures from the European Union. EU foreign chef Federica Mogherini attributes this to the EU's cooperation with the African Union and the United Nations, as she said on Saturday during a visit to Libya.

A British IS-trailer calling for an attack on Prince George has been sentenced to life imprisonment. The 32-year-old Husnain Rashid must spend at least 25 years behind the bars before he qualifies for release, Sky News.

Jean-Claude Juncker thanks Prime Minister Mark Rutte for the support he offered him Wednesday night when he had pain attacks as a result of a disorder on his back. The President of the European Commission also thanked the Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa, who also helped keep Juncker going for dinner at the NATO summit in Brussels.

The captain of the Lifeline ship may leave Malta to visit his elderly mother (93) in Germany. The judge determined that Tuesday after the request of 57-year-old Claus-Peter Reisch. He remains suspect in Malta, reports the Times of Malta.

Everything for a nice Instagram photo? The 19-year-old Katarina Zarutskie thought so. During her vacation in the Bahamas she saw a group of people swimming with sharks and jumped into the pool to shoot a nice picture. A few seconds later she was bitten and pulled under water by a shark.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday that he has made progress 'on almost all important issues' in talks with North Korea. He also mentioned the establishment of a timetable for the dismantling of the North Korean atomic program. But according to him there is still a lot of work to do.