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The 60-year-old Marcel van Vlasselaer, who was laying out a playground for his grandchildren, died when he saw a tree trunk on his head when he saw it.

A 33-year-old firefighter from Lauwe in Belgium is suspected of having murdered his wife with the poisonous fruits of an ornamental plant.

A plane crash cost the lives of five people in Kenya. According to a source within the police, it is about three Americans and their Kenyan pilot. The fifth victim is not...

After the seizure of smuggled goods from the Congo, the Ugandan customs found more than 3 tons of ivory in a container. The officers have found 762 elephant tusks or parts of them with a...

A 14-year-old girl has stolen her mother's car in Brilon in Germany and then drove a tree. The teenager drove together with a friend of the same age.

The snow chaos in the Alpine region has claimed at least twelve lives this week. On Thursday, a 9-year-old boy came under a falling tree in the German Trautshofen in Bavaria. He died in...

In the Australian city of Sydney persistent storms caused flooding. In the morning there was as much rainfall as normal in the entire month. Dozens of flights have been canceled. The police have called on motorists not to take the road. Because of the rain and floods, the morning peak degenerated into chaos.

Brit Ross Edgley (33) is the first man to swim around Britain's entire mainland. Edgley left for his monster tour of nearly 3200 kilometers in June and arrived in Kent on Sunday. The violent swam twelve hours a day in which he traveled 30 to 50 kilometers. Edgley had to eat between 10,000 and 15,000 calories every day.

The harsh autumn weather is not over in Italy yet. On Thursday, two people were killed again. The car they were in was crushed by a falling tree. The accident occurred at the town of Lillianes, in Valle d'Aosta, north of Turin.

A Chinese man has been arrested because he pushed his newborn daughter from a ravine. The girl survived perfectly, after she hung twelve hours in the branches of a tree.

The severe weather that plagues Italy has killed five people on Monday. That happened at various places in the country. Two young people died south of Rome because a tree fell on their car. The same happened to someone in nearby Terracina and a walker in Naples. A woman was mortally wounded by flying debris.

Hurricane Michael has arrived as a category 1 hurricane in the US state of Georgia. The hurricane arrived on Wednesday afternoon as category 4 in Florida. The wind speeds were so high that it was almost a category 5 hurricane. Meanwhile the wind speeds have dropped to 130 kilometers per hour. At the climax that was 250 kilometers per hour.

The police withdraw from the 'brown coal forest' at Hambach on Monday morning. This was announced by Minister Herbert Reul of the Interior of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. 'I think it's time for peace, order and silence in the forest.'

The packages with suspicious content intended for the Pentagon, the White House and Senator Ted Cruz's office were probably sent by an ex-navy man. That's what people who were involved in the investigation said Wednesday to Fox News. The deadly poison ricine was found in at least two intercepted mail items. The FBI has taken the stuff for further research.

The German police have, in their own words, dismantled all tree huts of activists in the so-called forest near Hambach. Energy company RWE is now making further preparations for the controversial mining of lignite in the forest.

A journalist has descended from a great height into the German 'brown coal forest' at Hambach. The victim, according to the first reports, fell through a suspension bridge between two tree houses, says a police spokesman. The man was seriously injured.

The death toll due to hurricane Florence on the American east coast rose to at least 23. Most of the victims fell in the state of North Carolina, where the coastal town of Wilmington was cut off from the outside world by the high water. The flooding can last for weeks.

The German police have arrested fourteen people on Sunday against the eviction of the brown coal forest \u0026 # x27; near Hambach, between Aachen and Cologne. Eight people were injured in the protests, including three police officers, the police reported.

The death toll in the Philippines by the typhoon Mangkhut has risen to at least 25. That is what the disaster coordinator of the Philippine government has announced. The majority of the victims were killed by landslides in mountainous areas. Reports on possible victims still have to be received from various areas.

The German police performed seventeen arrests on Friday in the 'brown coal forest' near Hambach, between Kerkrade and Cologne. Here, environmentalists are trying to prevent energy group RWE from cutting down the forest to win brown coal. There are ancient trees in the forest.

Hurricane Florence leaves a trail of vandalism in the United States. Because of the storm, trees are blown away and streets run under water. In the city of New Bern, according to CNN, at least two hundred people were saved who had been in trouble because of high water.

The police of North Rhine-Westphalia have started with the deployment of many troops to clear the 'brown coal forest' at Hambach, between Kerkrade and Cologne. Environmentalists have occupied the site for years to prevent the RWE energy group from ruining the landscape for the sake of open mining. Special units took the first activists from the tree huts on Thursday and broke off structures that had been tolerated all along.

The cause of death of two female visitors to the Tomorrowland dance festival last July in Boom, Belgium, is still drug-related. This is what the Antwerp prosecutor's office informs the VRT.

The police in the Canadian capital Ottawa have raised the alarm about a big black bear. A block of houses has been set up in the northern district of Byward Market, near the parliament building in the center.

An escaped macaw in London's Edmonton district got the laughs on her hand after she escaped from her cage and also had a big mouth opposite her helper. A fireman who tried to win her trust, she scolded with 'fuck you'. Then she fled.

Belgian customs have again done a large drug seizure in the port of Antwerp. In a control action, 1561 kilos of cocaine was intercepted, reports the Ministry of Finance. On Friday, 1727 kilos of cocaine had already been seized.

The two young women who died after a visit to the Belgian music festival Tomorrowland did not die from the effects of drug use. This is the conclusion of the prosecutor's office in Antwerp on the basis of the first findings. An investigation has now been opened into the exact circumstances of the deaths.

During the Tomorrowland music festival in Boom, Belgium, two young women were taken to hospital after drug use. A few days later they died of the consequences. The Flemish channel VRT reports this on Sunday evening. The women came from abroad and died in the University Hospital of Antwerp.

'My name is Garrett Michael Boofias, I am five years old, I am a bulldog and my favorite color is blue... and red and black and green.' That is the beginning of the letter with the funeral wishes of the 5-year-old Garrett Michael Matthias from the American state of Iowa.