The American authorities rescued eleven children from an underground residential complex in a sparsely populated, mountainous area in New Mexico. According to the local sheriff, they lived there under 'the saddest living conditions and poverty I have seen', reports American media.
A united Belgium is hard to write history on the World Cup. After the sensational victory of the Red Devils on Brazil, the southern neighbors wake up with a hangover of happiness. One that they want to take part twice more in the coming week.
The Belgians wake up with a big smile on Tuesday morning. But after the football sheller against Japan, there is the realization that the Brazilians will have to be tapped from another barrel.
A girl died in the British resort of Gorleston on Sunday. That reports The Guardian. The bouncy castle on which she was playing would have exploded, witnesses said. The child was launched, says a witness 'twenty meters into the air.'
Richard Summerfruit was clean. Ready for a while with heroin. Until, after a concert visit with his girlfriend in San Diego, he was left alone on the toilet. He was dead not much later. The blue pill that the twenties swallowed is the Percocet known in America or the opioid Oxycodone. But the fatal tablet bought on the street turned out to contain something completely different: fentanyl.
In an attack by the Taliban in the northwest of Afghanistan, thirty soldiers were killed. This reported the governor of Badghis County, Abdul Qafoor Malikzai. It was the first major attack by the Taliban's Sunni extremists since the end of a three-day file taken in honor of the Muslim festival Eid al-Fitr. The file expired on Sunday.
A rabid red lynx who attacked a 46-year-old woman in Hart County, Georgia, must have paid for it with death. The firm Dede Phillips strangled the aggressive animal with her bare hands.
Due to the eruption of the volcano Kīlauea about 600 houses have been destroyed in Hawaii. Never before have so many homes been swept away by the volcano in such a short time, said Mayor Harry Kim of Hawaii County.
Security personnel from an American prison was dumbfounded when it turned out that a transferred detainee had her vagina stuffed with escape material.
The American probe New Horizons has been taken out of hibernation. With a speed of almost 1.25 million kilometers a day, she sets course for Ultima Thule in the Kuiper belt. The spacecraft, which made spectacular photos of Pluto and its biggest moon Charon in 2015, has to fly past that boulder on New Year's Day, make images and take measurements. This then becomes the furthest object studied closely by man.
A twelve-year-old girl drowned when she tried to save her mother from the American San Jacinto River in Texas. The child's body was salvaged on Sunday after an hour-long search, local media reports Monday.
Two reporters died in the United States on Monday when a tree fell on their car. The two were on their way for a report for the American news channel WYFF News 4 about the dangerous weather conditions in the American state of North Carolina.
The British police have arrested an eighteen-year-old man suspected of sending thousands of false reports of bombs being placed in schools in the US and Great Britain. The police said that the suspect was arrested in his home in Andover in the southern county of Hampshire, reports the BBC.
Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned in a speech for students of a school in Lexington for 'an increasing crisis in ethics and integrity' in American public life.
The man who disrupted the performance of the British singer SuRie on Saturday night during the Eurovision Song Contest final is bail-free. That is what the EBU, the organization behind the song festival, has announced.
The mortal remains of the 10-year-old American girl Lindsey Baum was found after more than nine hundred kilometers from where she disappeared.
A cow from the Scottish county of Ross wears a bra to prevent inflammations such as mastitis on the udders.
An American complains a rescue worker who has saved him from drowning. The bipolar Mateusz Fijalkowski tried to commit suicide in a swimming pool, but was taken out of the water by the rescue worker.
Twelve murders, forty-five rapes. California sighed for decades under sadistic practices with bizarre details. The arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo (72) is a breakthrough in a case with many open wounds and exposed nerves.
A woman from the English county of Staffordshire has left her 86-year-old mother in a chair for a year. The elderly woman died from the consequences of neglect and inflammation. The 68-year-old daughter has been given a suspended prison sentence of 20 months.
The Englishman Timothy Hill raised his middle finger several times to flash cameras in the English county of North Yorkshire. He was therefore sentenced to a prison sentence of eight months and a temporary rowing.
That the American police is less diplomatic than the Dutch was already known. The Georgia authorities want to underline their zero-tolerance policy with a piquant welcome sign: 'We have 365 cemeteries.'
Employees of road administrator Pennsylvania Turnpike have shown their best side in Lawrence County by taking two bold kids off an impossible ledge under a bridge.
A family with six children drove from a cliff in the US state of California and ended up in the sea after a fall of about thirty feet. According to CNN, the police assume that all passengers have died, although the bodies of three children have not yet been recovered.
The former dean of the University of Michigan who should have supervised the gymnast Larry Nassar, who has been convicted of the abuse of hundreds of American girls, has been arrested. Nassar worked as a sports doctor at the university and also abused young athletes.
You do not smell it, you do not see it and especially you do not taste it. That makes it so dangerous. A pill of Rohypnol or a few milliliters of GHB in your drink will be enough to be out of the world for hours.
Several houses on a cliff in Hemsby in the United Kingdom have been evacuated because they are in danger of falling into the sea. The approximately ten buildings can crash down by the crumbling coast according to the police. Snow, ice and strong winds significantly accelerate erosion on the East English coast.
An 11-year-old girl died in England after being hit in the street by a spare wheel that flew from a passing car. The incident was in Manby in the county of Lincolnshire.
You often hear that people who remove a dog from the shelter bring back because the beast is too difficult. But have you ever heard of a dog that is being returned because the animal is too sweet?
US President Donald Trump reached a striking milestone on Saturday. According to CNN, he spent a hundred days since taking office on a golf club that bears his name.
