The state of emergency in the Maldives was lifted after a week. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the island nation in the Indian Ocean, "the security situation has improved." Initially the authorities had reported that the state of emergency would be in force thirty days after explosives were found near the residence of President Abdulla Yameen.
Pope Francis is Monday for the second time in three days tripped, causing immediate speculation erupted about his health.
The United Nations expect a huge number of people fleeing strikes as Iraqi forces launch an offensive to retake the city of Mosul on Islamic State.
A thick layer of toxic smog hangs over northeast China. The polluted air contains more than fifty times more matter than the maximum that the World Health Organization (WHO) has established. Air pollution is the worst since Beijing in 2013 began with the measurements.
The National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi has to start twelve parliamentary seats won in the first twelve constituencies where the results became known.
In a detention center on Christmas Island where refugees are received his early Monday morning rioting broke out. Following the death of a man who was staying at the center, according to Australian media.
A month after their abduction, six members of the Shiite minority in Afghanistan's Ghazni province beheaded. The three men and three women were slain Sunday in the district controlled by the Taliban, said the government spokesman Ghazni province bordering Sabul.
Two Serbian embassy employees kidnapped Sunday in the Libyan coastal city of Sabratha. According to the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs refers to the press- attaché and his driver.
On the occasion of the visit of the Pope to Mexico next year will be built in the capital, a replica of the Sistine Chapel. The spitting image of the famous church in Rome will be placed at the main Zocalo plaza in Mexico City, said Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera.
The man who ran last year more visitors at the SXSW festival in the US city of Austin (Texas), the lifelong prison without the possibility of parole. A jury considered the man Friday US time guilty of murder.
Two suspects in the murder of the Belgian criminal Silvio Aquino are Friday through France extradited to Belgium. The two were arrested over two weeks ago in a hotel in the southern French city of Nice. They are transferred to a prison in Belgium.
The Mexican authorities hunt at resort Acapulco on an escaped tiger who has slain five cows so far.
The Turkish police have arrested twenty people suspected of being linked with Islamic State (IS). That happened in the Antalya province in the southwest of the country. In a resort near the city of Antalya begins next week's G20 meeting.
The Swedish Minister for Migration Morgan Johansson has called on refugees not to come to Sweden but staying in Germany. According to the minister his country, one of the most welcoming countries for immigrants in Europe, reached the limit of what it can to accommodate migrants.
Through a break in a dam on Thursday in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais sixteen deaths. At least 45 people are missing.
The 13th floor is for many a superstitious place where you'd better not tarry. In parts of the world that floor is therefore not entirely in tower blocks and jumps numbering 12 to 14. The Canadian city of Vancouver is that practice to an end. Every new building must mention the actual number of levels, even if it supposedly ominous number 13.
The French Ministry of Defence has since Thursday its own " Pentagon ". President François Hollande opened in the southwest of Paris, the new ministry, which covers 140,000 square meters. It is headed by the largest rooftop solar panels of the city and the complex is also planted in many places.
A mafia gang in Rome has probably millions gesnoept contracts that ended the municipality. The gang of 46 suspects state from Thursday into the Italian capital.
Wake up! called CD of Pope Francis which was presented Thursday at the Vatican. Anyone interested in listening to speeches and sermons of the Catholic pastor can make a selection from late November on the shelves of music stores.
The death toll in the collapse of a factory in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Thursday increased to eighteen. Rescuers search for 150 people missing and were believed to be under the rubble. Therefore, it is feared that many more deaths.
The woman who in late October crashed into spectators of a student parade in the US city of Stillwater, may disappear for life behind bars. The 25 year old suspect Adacia Avery Chambers is capable of defendants arraigned Wednesday. She was in his own words suicidal when she crashed into the crowd.
An armed man on a rooftop in the US city of San Diego disrupts traffic. The traffic at the international airport on Wednesday shut down while the police in a district next to a shooting man tries to overpower.
It is one of the annoyances of many people in shopping : Slow pedestrians who continue to linger for every shop window and others stop. In Liverpool they have something to be found.
At least ten people were killed when a factory collapsed in the Pakistani city of Lahore. About 150 people are still trapped under the rubble.
Uber Technologies invests in the coming period some $ 250 million in the expansion in the Middle East and North Africa. The company behind the eponymous taxiapp wants its services to offer including in other cities in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan, as did Uber Tuesday.
Financial researchers think the accountant department APSA of the Vatican in the past has been used by others for embezzlement on a large scale. They argue that in a report seen by Reuters.
A fire in an empty hotel in the German city of Dresden, which was intended for refugees, was the result of an attack. That said a police spokesman Tuesday. The fire broke out in the early hours of last Saturday.
While the armed violence persists, Yemen since Tuesday also plagued by natural disasters. An exceptionally powerful cyclone reaches the coast and especially loved home in the coastal city of al- Mukalla. Streets were flooded, houses have collapsed and thousands of people fled.
The Turkish police have arrested Tuesday dozens of people that can be associated with Fethullah Gülen, the political enemy of President Erdogan. Among those arrested are senior police officers and officials.
Four fishermen Tuesday after a month at sea float rescued by the Mexican Navy. An airplane saw the little boat of the men from Colombia and Ecuador in driving weekend in the Pacific Ocean, 260 kilometers off the Mexican coast.
