A surfing tournament in Australia was canceled after two men in the area were bitten by sharks. According to the Australian broadcaster ABC, the organization speaks of a 'unique situation': the sharks land on stranded whales, which contributes to their aggressiveness.
The three journalists who brought the sex scandal around film producer Harvey Weinstein to light with reports in The New York Times and The New Yorker have won a Pulitzer Prize. This was announced on Monday by the jury of Columbia University in New York.
And again the chameleon has won. Milo Djukanovic, once a communist, later a friend of the rich, first a supporter and later an enemy of the Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, rival of Russia and friend of the west, may once again call himself president of Montenegro.
An international team of experts who want to investigate the possible poison gas attack in the Syrian Douma can start work on Wednesday. That expectation was expressed by the Russian ambassador at the organization against chemical weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.
At least seven people died on the Indonesian island of Java on Monday after an old building collapsed and the rubble fell on a music room where students were taught gamelan music.
The attack by the US, the United Kingdom and the French on targets in Syria was a huge logistical operation. The costs run into hundreds of millions, says defense specialist Peter Wijninga. There may even have been a bomber in America to fire rockets on Syria.
In South Africa, thousands of people gathered to attend the state funeral of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. The coffin, covered with the national flag, was shown in the football stadium of Soweto, a township in the west of Johannesburg and then a breeding ground for resistance.
The West has lost all influence and credibility in the conflict in the Middle East and therefore only carried out a rocket attack on Syria under the leadership of the US. This is what Syrian President Assad said in a reaction to attacks on his country in the night from Friday to Saturday.
More than a hundred missiles were fired on Saturday night at carefully selected targets in Syria. The US attack, backed by France and Britain, was a retaliation for what according to the West was an attack with poison gas by Syrian President Assad on his own people. Ten questions and ten answers.
America, England and France have attacked three targets in Syria dealing with the Syrian chemical weapons program, the US General Dunford has announced.
The Russian parliament is considering a boycott of Western liquor and other products in response to economic sanctions that the US has issued against Russian companies in response to the Skripal issue.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel concludes that her country is taking part in military attacks on Syria. She said Thursday that Germany would do everything to make it clear that the use of chemical weapons is unacceptable.
Although the play is officially premiered, Harry Potter And The Cursed Child has already broken a record on Broadway. Production in the third week of the previews turned the highest weekly turnover for a non-musical ever.
VIDEO An ultimate stupid tourist has almost injured a giraffe in a safari park.
Approximately 2500 gendarmes started Monday with the evacuation of a large site near Nantes where a new airport was planned. An estimated 250 squatters are still entrenched on the site in Notre-Dame-des-Landes. French Interior Minister Gérard Collomb has said that this lawless zone is now being lifted.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets with Donald Trump in Washington this month.
At least six miners have been killed by a collapse in a Georgian coal mine. Three others were injured. That was what the Ministry of Home Affairs announced.
Julius Maada Bio is the new president of Sierra Leone. He was sworn in a few hours after the election committee announced the results. The candidate of the opposition Peoples Party SLPP defeated the incumbent president Ernest Bai Koroma in an exciting ballot box. According to the official result, Maada Bio received 51.8 percent of the votes, against 48.2 percent for Bai Koroma.
Outside Rihanna's 'Rude Boy' shines through the luxurious shopping center, young people sitting in a state-of-the-art office sipping a latte bent over their laptops on their first start-up. It could be London, New York or Tel Aviv. But this is Rawabi, the first planned city in the West Bank.
The West risks a return to the Cold War with its actions in the case of the former double spy Sergei Skripal, says the Russian foreign intelligence service SWR. 'For fear of change, the West is prepared to build a new iron curtain around it,' said SWR chief Sergei Narisjkin on Wednesday in Moscow.
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...
Bahrain has discovered the largest oil field in the history of the kingdom in the Gulf for its west coast.
A day after the deadly protests at the border with Israel, Palestinians have once again sought the confrontation with the Israeli army. With warning shots, young people in the Gaza Strip were kept at a distance. In addition, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, thirteen people were injured.
According to two senior government officials, President Donald Trump wants the early departure of US troops from Syria, he told his advisers.
The Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres warns that the rising tensions between Russia and the West can lead to a new Cold War.
A fire in a police station in Venezuela killed 68 people. That is what the authorities have announced. An investigation has started.
A sculpture by a naked president Trump will be auctioned in May. Julien's Auctions mentions the auction 'The Emperor Has No Balls' and must be the showpiece at the New Jersey auction. It is estimated that some 20,000 to 30,000 dollars will be offered.
In Bulgaria, commotion arose about the death of dozens of horses. Activists found the dying animals on a mountainside in the west of the country, near the border with Macedonia.
A 45-year-old man from Nieuwkoop is suspected of having forced a woman for hours in Breukelen to different locations and raped her several times. He threatened her to later turned out with a fake gun. The woman was left tied up and found by passersby, reports the Public Prosecution Service (OM) Midden-Nederland.
Shell sells its 20 percent interest in the West Qurna 1 Iraqi oil field at the Japanese Itochu. Messages about the sale did the round earlier and it was waiting for the usual approval. Shell receives for an amount of 406 million dollars (329 million euros). The debt of $ 144 million is also part of the agreement.
