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Svalbard has a snow avalanche buried Saturday at least ten houses. Here, a man was killed and nine people were injured, including four kinderen.Van the injured are three bad shape.

In an air raid by the international coalition against Islamic State Nine Iraqi soldiers were killed. That the Iraqi Defence Minister, Khaled al-Obeidi, said Saturday.

In large parts of the Philippines is dark. The powerful typhoon Melor, many electric cables snapped in the central part of the island group and is a power failure.

The Philippines are braced for Typhoon Melor. As a precaution evacuated about 750,000 residents of the central part of the island group. Furthermore forty domestic flights canceled, many schools and offices closed and must remain in the hundreds of harbor ferries and fishing boats.

There is the weekend in the US again commotion arose about video footage that shows how a black suspect shot dead by police. The suspect was 28-year-old Nicholas Robertson from Los Angeles, The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.

Three crew members were on Friday returned from ISS. Their capsule landed on the snowy plains of Kazakhstan, a few hours after the door of the Space Station had been closed. Because of the weather, they are immediately taken by helicopter to the civilized world. Usually astronauts are first checked in a tent at the landing spot.

The highest smog alarm, code red, in Beijing Thursday revoked. Thursday afternoon, cars are allowed to drive again and Friday the schools open again. A cold front has blown away the suffocating smog.

There is demand for robot friends, appeared earlier this year from the sales success of the Pepper- robot from the Japanese telecom giant Softbank. Now there is a little more modest, with the Communication Robot also Japanese MJI.

Six children of Afghan refugees have Tuesday off the Turkish coast drowned when the dinghy they were in sank. The boat was coming from the Turkish coastal town of Çesme en route to Greece. Which reported the Turkish news agency Anadolu.

Azerbaijan mourns the oil workers Friday were killed by the devastating fire on an oil rig in the Caspian Sea. While rescue workers with desperation still searching for survivors, President Ilham Aliyev Sunday already designated as a day of national mourning.

Hundreds of British homes are under water because rivers are once again burst their banks after storms. In northern England and Scotland, about a thousand people have been evacuated. Trains do not run, to about 60,000 households in the county of Cumbria is the power cut and many roads are closed. For the time being it rain, so it is expected.

The power outage in Yalta in Crimea, the result of an attack on electrical installations at the unofficial boundary between the Crimea and Ukraine, now also has a rare tiger cub killed.

The planned closure of the US prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is again a lot further away. The White House has rejected the plan of the Department of Defense (Pentagon), because it is too expensive. On that message business newspaper the Wall Street Journal.

More than 800,000 refugees have so far this year came by sea to Europe. That's about four times as many as in 2014, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Tuesday.

UNICEF warns of the plight of three million children in Nepal now winter in the Asian country is imminent. Nepal was hit in April and May by severe earthquakes that hit more than 200,000 families. Parents and children live half a year later still in temporary shelters, even at heights above 1500 meters where the weather in the short term will be difficult.

While Paris prepares for the climate summit, Beijing still has to deal with heavy smog. Meanwhile issued in the Chinese capital code orange, the second highest level of alert.

The air pollution in the Chinese capital Beijing Saturday has risen to an alarming level. The content of fine particles in the air is 391 micrograms per cubic meter, nearly twenty times more than the 25 micrograms by the World Health Organization (WHO) still designates as safe.

The Nexus 5 produce LG and Google two years ago a high-class phone. The device was relatively cheap, but on almost all fronts could easily compete with the high-end devices from other makers. Now there is the 5X, the successor to the 5. See if the companies get the trick yet again for another.

At least six children have drowned Friday when their boat sank during the risky crossing from Turkey to Greece. It involves two separate incidents.

The year 2015 will probably be the warmest year on record. This is mainly because there have never been so many greenhouse gases are in the atmosphere now. Also this year there is a strong El Niño. This is contained in a report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the UN, which was published Wednesday.

The highest threat level is still in force in Brussels, but still go Wednesday schools open again. The metro will again ride in the Belgian capital. However, keeping hundreds of police school in the holes and the underground guarded by police.

Disasters caused by climate changes have occurred frequently in the past twenty years than before and has killed more than 600,000 people living in that time. That the UN agency for disaster management (UNISDR) reported on Monday.

After the first sign of frost nationwide allows us Monday night and Tuesday snow and rain to wait. This is done on the approach of a disturbance that will move very slowly across the Netherlands.

A helicopter with seven people on board crashed Saturday in New Zealand. None of the occupants survived the crash, the newspaper The New Zealand Herald. It involves six passengers and the pilot.

A group rheas, ostrich-like animal from South America, seems to feel at ease in a nature reserve in the north of Germany. In the Biosphere Reserve Schaalsee, on the border of the states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein now walk almost 180 rheas around.

The Brussels police Thursday morning working on seven house searches in connection with the attacks in Paris.

For the second consecutive day, Parisians are flocking into the car driven to work. In the morning there was a record length of 529 kilometers of traffic jams, according to the Traffic Information Service (VID) in the Netherlands.

France remains fierce hunt for terrorists. On the night of Monday to Tuesday were done 128 searches in the country, said Minister of Internal Affairs Bernard Cazeneuve. It is not known whether there are also arrests.

France has re-air attacks on the Syrian city of Raqqa. That the French army on Tuesday. Raqqa was early last year conquered by Islamic State (IS) and proclaimed capital of the caliphate.

The Dutch government is liable for the damage suffered by illegally downloading the movie industry in our country. That set nine Dutch film producers go to court for this reason.