The death toll due to the severe weather that Italy has been tormenting for three days has risen to eleven on Tuesday. Someone is also missing. A large part of Venice came under water. On videos you can see how tourists waded through the water of the flooded St. Mark's Square and how a restaurant, despite a low water of at least twenty centimeters, still served pizzas.
A 46-year-old woman who fell overboard on a cruise ship was rescued from the water after ten (!) Hours.
A letter from the German composer Richard Wagner has yielded almost 28,000 euros at an auction in Jerusalem. The favorite composer of the German dictator Adolf Hitler was negative in the text about French and German Jews, reports the auction house.
The Belgian coastal town of Blankenberge wants to reduce seagull nuisance by giving the birds a contraceptive. The town council has already given the green light for the plan.
The Slovak police arrested an Italian businessman who was described in an article by the recently murdered investigative journalist Jan Kuciak. The Public Prosecutor said Antonino V. was arrested for possible involvement in an international drug case.
If you were planning a romantic trip to Venice, you better wait. Due to the blue superblood moon and the lack of rain, the smaller canals of Venice are dry.
The mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, is going to do something for, among others, four Japanese people who say he has gotten a bill of 1100 euro in his town for four steaks, a plate of fried fish and water. The four students went to the police after their visit to the restaurant near St. Mark's Square.
The Christmas tree in the square Piazza Venezia in the center of Rome does not threaten to win Christmas.
Residents of the northern Italian regions of Veneto and Lombardy have been called on to vote in a referendum on more autonomy on Sunday. Unlike the Spanish region of Catalonia, there is no vote on independence but about whether Veneto and Lombardy should have more control over, among other things, the management of their finances, education and healthcare.
The identity of more and more victims of the attacks in Spain is known. In the meantime, the stories of ten deceased, including five Spaniards, have been leaked through international media.
Snapchat jumps into the still popular mobile game Pokémon Go. Since Monday, there is a filter of Pikachu, one of the most popular Pokémon monsters, in the app. The Pikachu filter is available for a short time, so on the Pokémon website.
Archaeologists found a feminine 'vampire' in a medieval mass grave near Venice. The woman was buried on the island of Lazzaretto Nuovo, a former quarantine area for plague victims, with a stone in her mouth. According to the archaeologists, the stone was intended to prevent them from doing good to other bodies.
Italian police have arrested four people in Venice who may be plotting a bomb attack on the famous Rialto bridge in that city. It involves three adults from Kosovo and a minor whose nationality was not disclosed. All four resided legally in Italy.
Photo and videopapp Snapchat get direction IPO plenty of criticism. It would operate shadowy and shareholders have no say. But advertisers are very enthusiastic analysts.
Snapchat comes with a new QR code to share links. Users can use the new app to create a Snap code for a link. Who can read their friends than with their camera phone.
German police on Thursday arrested an Italian at Munich Airport. The man was on international wanted list by Interpol since 2004. The Italian, who also has Brazilian nationality, is wanted in the South American country for tax evasion and diversion of $ 860 million (800 million) abroad.
A 22-year-old immigrant from Gambia on Sunday drowned in the Grand Canal, the main canal of Venice, while onlookers saw this happen. Passers-by did not intervene, but filming it.
Snapchat is stricter sure media companies do not play tricks to attract more readers. Clickbait pictures that have nothing to do with the content of an article on the Discover service Snapchat have, for example banned since Monday. Heard that The New York Times Company.
Protesting asylum seekers in Italy 25 employees of a reception held captive for several hours. In the center with about 1,400 people in the northern Italian Cona migrants were incensed after a 25-year-old woman became ill and was deceased.
The massive wave of dismissals in Turkey after the failed coup of July in violation of the Turkish constitution and international law. Which have legal experts from the Council of Europe said Friday.
The European Network of Councils for the Judiciary (ENCJ) on Thursday suspended the Turkish umbrella organization of judges and prosecutors as a candidate member. The organization does not meet the standards set by the ENCJ. The Turkish Council for the Judiciary is no longer independent of the Turkish government and legislature, according to the network.
The people of Venice are tired of being run continuously upside down in their city by hordes of tourists. The Venetians have therefore proposed during a demonstration at the council to set a limit on the number of tourists.
The deceased was yesterday Mieke Telkamp and is world famous in the Netherlands because of her song. For years it graced the top ten songs on funerals favorite. She was 82 years old.
A plane crashed during a flight from Venice to Leipzig in Slovenia. Four German passengers were thus killed. Police in Nova Gorica announced this on Thursday night.
In a plane crash in western Slovenia on Thursday four people omgekomen.Er were no survivors. The cause of the crash is still under investigation.
In a sudden fire this morning in the Italian holiday Pra'delle Torri in Caorle, fifty kilometers northeast of Venice, almost forty bungalows are completely burned. The travelers, including Dutch, plummeting to flee to avoid being burned alive. They have cut and went up in flames. According to local press the fire started after four cylinders exploded. spread the fire rapidly from the strong winds. Under the Dutch who had to flee Rudy Span, who works in the resort.
China was encroaching Western street and wants to avoid further Manhattan- and Venice Streets emerge in the country. Minister Li Liguo of Civil Affairs calls the trend a bizarre and dangerous harm to national self-esteem.
Heavy showers with severe thunderstorms on Thursday in much of central and southern Italy caused any trouble . Three people were killed .
