The images moved the whole of Australia in 2017: a 54-year-old man carrying the coffin in tears during his wife's funeral. Two years later the man touched the country again: now through...
Australian cardinal George Pell (77), a very influential man in the Vatican, has been sentenced to six years in prison in Australia. The former senior official of the Vatican was...
A man from the Australian state of Victoria has baked a steak in his blood-hot car. So the man showed how it can be in vehicles in times of extreme heat. In Australia,...
At a train station in Manchester three people, including an agent, were injured in a stabbing.
Londoners are puzzled after a memorial for the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has appeared on a bench in their city. The text 'In loving memory of Saddam Hussein, 1937-2006' is on the gold-colored plate. It is not clear who is responsible for it, reports the BBC.
More than 200 people lost their lives on Thursday during the MV Nyerere ferry on Lake Victoria in Tanzania, but one man miraculously survived two frightened days in the hull of the capsized ship.
The Tanzanian authorities have certainly recovered 166 bodies after the ship's drama on Lake Victoria. That said Minister Isack Kamwelwe (Communication), who stated that survivors already started with the identification of deceased victims.
The captain of the ferry that capsized on Lake Victoria on Thursday is arrested in Tanzania. President John Magufuli said in a televised speech on Friday evening that the captain was not on board at the time of the accident. He would have left the helm to someone who was unauthorized.
The number of deaths as a result of the capsized ferry on the Tanzanian part of Lake Victoria has increased to 136. A high police officer has reported this.
Hundreds of people are missing after a ferry has capsized on Lake Victoria in northern Tanzania. More than forty deaths have already been recovered. The Tanzanian government fears that more than two hundred people have drowned.
A British vacationer who saved two children from drowning from the hotel pool in Menorca was praised for his heroic act. The hotel sent a bottle of wine as a thank you for his actions. But the 32-year-old father of two did not settle for that.
If you just want to relax during a visit to the fish spa, it does not get that relaxed. An Australian woman had to have her toes amputated after a treatment in Thailand.
Crown princess Victoria of Sweden presented the Junior Water Prize 2018 at the annual World Water Week in Stockholm on Tuesday evening.
A heartbreaking scene. A killer whale named Tahlequah (J35) could not let go of her deceased calf. For two and a half weeks the killer whale pushed her dead daughter along with her forehead. Last Saturday she said goodbye to her young.
George Salt has been thrashing at the cemetery for 30 years at the wrong grave.
A heartbreaking scene in Victoria, Canada. An orchestrator has been trying to keep her dead newborn baby on the water surface for two days.
The British royal family prepares for the baptism of Prince Louis, the third child of Prince William and his wife Catherine. The chapel of St. James's Palace is Monday the scene of the ceremony, where traditions are honored.
The widow and son of Pablo Escobar, the world's most famous drug lord, have been officially charged with laundering drug money in Argentina.
A British officer has been found guilty of attempting to murder his wife, among other things by disabling her parachute. The 38-year-old sergeant Emile Cilliers had debts and met a new flame through the internet. He then tried, according to the judge in Winchester, to kill his wife Victoria. The statement is later.
A 41-year-old Canadian was lynched in an Indian village in the east of Peru after the murder of a local medicine woman, Olivia Arévalo. The 81-year-old woman was assassinated last Thursday with a firearm in the town of Victoria Grande.
A carnivorous ulcer is spreading so rapidly in the Australian state of Victoria that an epidemic is being discussed. In an article in the Medical Journal of Australia, experts say that the number of Buruli ulcer cases is increasing, but it is unclear why that happens only in Victoria. No cases have been reported in other states of Australia.
Nick Burchill had good intentions many years ago. The Canadian wanted to delight his friends with lots of pepperoni. However, no refrigerator could be found in his hotel room, after which he placed the meat by the window. And he should not have done that better...
The mother of the poisoned Russian spy Sergei Skripal has no idea that her son and granddaughter Julia have been in a coma for three weeks in a hospital in Salisbury. Her family has shielded the 90-year-old woman from the bad news.
Certainly 41 children were killed by the fire in the shopping center in the Russian city of Kemerovo. A total of 64 people lost their lives. According to the Russian news agency Interfax, this appears from the list of victims released by the authorities on Tuesday.
Victoria Station in London was briefly vacated Tuesday afternoon because the fire alarm went off. The police and fire brigade quickly noticed on the spot that the false alarm was on which the doors opened again.
A natural fire drives residents of the Australian state of Victoria out of their homes. They are housed in stadiums and community centers.
Russiagate, or the possible interference of the Kremlin in the American elections, has received a spectacular follow-up in Russia itself. Anti-corruption blogger Aleksej Navalny, who is excluded from the presidential election next month, says he has evidence that billionaire Oleg Deripaska was the secret emissary of the Kremlin in 2016 with Paul Manafort, then the campaign chief of Donald Trump.
Under the floor of Buckingham Palace remains have been found from the reign of Queen Victoria. The discoveries, including old cigarette packs and part of a newspaper, were done during renovation work.
While the United States is suffering from extremely low temperatures, Australia is dealing with a large heat wave. This causes forest fires, in which several buildings fell prey on the outskirts of Melbourne. On one of the highways in the state of Victoria, the asphalt was melted by the heat of more than 40 degrees.
The London police are looking for men who have stolen prostheses. They robbed the tools from a parked car while the owner sat in a restaurant. 'This is a very low crime in which heartless thieves have stolen the personal belongings of the victim,' the police ruled.
