On the ferry that capsized on the Tobameer in North Sumatra on Monday, many more passengers were hitherto assumed. According to the Indonesian authorities, 180 people were missing, previously it was reported that the ferry was carrying 80 passengers. The number of missing persons is three times as large as the capacity of the ship.
Indonesian rescue workers resumed their search for survivors of a ferry that sank on Lake Toba in North Sumatra on Tuesday. The bad weather makes the operation difficult. The approximately one hundred rescue workers suffer from rain and waves of about 2 meters high.
On the Tobameer in North Sumatra a boat with around eighty people on board was hijacked on Monday. Nine of them were saved according to local media. Dozens of passengers are still missing. The body of one drowned passenger is salvaged.
Sponsorship Alpe d \u0026 # x27; HuZes has raised 11,230,804.79 euros so far. That is more than a million more than last year. The race, in which cyclists, runners and handbikers conquer Alpe d \u0026 # x27; Huez in the French Alps one to six times, raises money for research into cancer.
The plane that disappeared from the radar in Kenya on Tuesday crashed. None of the ten occupants, including two crew members, survived the disaster. That made airline Fly-SAX known after a rescue team found the plane.
Around 4500 participants will participate in the Alpe d \u0026 # x27; HuZes on Thursday. Under the motto 'Giving up is not an option' they climb the Alpe d \u0026 # x27; Huez, the famous \u0026 # x27; Dutch \u0026 # x27; mountain from the Tour de France. With this they want to raise money for research into the cure of cancer.
Walking over the street with face covering such as a burqa and nikab are prohibited in Denmark from August. The Danish parliament voted in favor of a ban on Thursday.
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 tropical storm Alberto, with which the Atlantic hurricane season has been opened prematurely, has declined slightly on its way to the Florida Panhandle strip in the northwest of the American state. According to the meteorological service, the center of the depression is now 80 kilometers south of Panama City in Florida and wind speeds of 96 kilometers per hour have been measured.
Hundreds of passengers on the Thalys spent the night from Friday to Saturday in the train at a station in the north of Paris. Together, three trains traveling from Paris to Brussels made a reversal because they could not pass through Belgium.
Five asylum seekers have escaped from a closed center in Belgium during the night from Friday to Saturday due to the consequences of severe weather. Due to the heavy rainfall, the center in Steenokkerzeel near Brussels was flooded and the electricity was turned off.
A Japanese climber died on Monday at his eighth attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The 36-year-old Nobukazu Kuriki is the second man to leave this climbing season on the dreaded mountain.
They have a spot in the front of the route that they can no longer take away. Jolanda, Corinne, Mariëlle and Ria all come from the Bollenstreek and have chosen the wedding of Harry and Meghan to celebrate their twenty-year friendship. Mariëlle and Ria were already there when William and Kate married, but with the extended company it is 'even more fun'.
Jeans with holes. They can no longer be ignored from the streets. However, the trend is accompanied by an annoying side effect in combination with sunny weather: burnt red spots.
Sherpa veteran Kami Rita (48) has reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 22nd time in his career as a mountain guide. He is now only record holder. The Nepalese Ministry of Tourism announced this on Wednesday. The routinier stood in the morning with a group of Chinese people on top of the highest mountain on earth, on the border of Nepal and Tibet.
Due to heavy storms in India, many people died again on Sunday. The media speak of at least forty. In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, according to the emergency response service, at least seventeen people were killed. In West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, too, several fatalities are to be regretted by the storm. Lightning strikes and house collapse are most often mentioned as a cause.
North Korea will clear and dismantle the location used for short-term nuclear tests as promised. This takes place on 23, 24 or 25 May, depending on the weather conditions. The government in Pyongyang announced that on Saturday.
Of the thirteen miners who were trapped in a mine in South Africa after a collapse, four died.
Due to the collapse of a corridor, thirteen South African miners got stuck underground on Thursday. The cause was a slight earthquake. According to the management of the Masakhane gold mine, west of Johannesburg, rescue workers have been able to make contact with three of them.
Certainly 74 people were killed by storms that crossed the north of the India. Almost all the dead fell in the states of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Hundreds of people were injured.
An American fashion house has just put a new style on the mark. Perfect for warm weather... The trousers make a lot of dust.
Head of the UN climate office UNFCCC, Patricia Espinosa, has called for more efforts in the area of climate protection. 'In 2017 we witnessed many extreme weather conditions and disasters,' said the Mexican prior to a new UN climate conference in Bonn on Monday.
A 4-year-old boy, who was walking along the tide line with his mother, was dragged into the sea by a sudden huge wave.
Nine Israeli youths were killed on Thursday by heavy floods in the south of the country.
At least 40 participants in the Antwerp 10 Miles \u0026 amp; running race Marathon became unwell due to the warm weather and needed medical care in a hospital. Some of them are in intensive care and have to spend the night in the hospital.
The combination of a warm and strong south wind with Saharazand makes life on the Greek islands in the Aegean for the third day in a row heavy. On the Peloponnese peninsula this weekend was just under 34 degrees. Fire broke out too, Monday morning the fire brigade jerked off for a big fire near Olympia.
In the mid-west of the United States, a record amount of snow fell on Sunday and extremely low temperatures were measured. In addition, the eastern part of the US suffered from tornadoes.
To throw skulls, sell racist talk, daily lavish food parties and even signs of necrophilia. Through a judgment of the Council of State, new details become known about the scandal in the Vorst cemetery. At the end of 2016, three municipal employees were fired there. Because of a 'barbecue in the cemetery' and alleged 'sexual games', it was then. But the real reasons for their dismissal seem even crazier than expected.
In the winter weather, northern Germany, including Berlin, delivered a white Easter. On the Baltic Sea coast in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, according to Deutscher Wetterdienst (the German KNMI), 35 centimeters of snow fell locally. Such a thick suit in April was last measured in 1970.
Two pilots from different commercial airlines have, separately from each other, passed a UFO (unidentified flying object) to the air traffic control. They saw 'something' fly far above them during a flight over the desert in Arizone at the end of February, but what...?
