The tiny first panda baby of 2016 did not make it. The animal, a male, Friday was immediately after birth in an incubator made but lived only five days. 'People's Daily' made the tragic news announced via Twitter. The people of Chengdu, a city in southwest China, is in mourning.
In France shocked by the suicide of a young woman who was seen on Periscope, a video application from Twitter. The woman, born in 1997, announced her followers her own death and fell Tuesday for the train. The French judiciary is doing research.
The Bulgarian-American artist Christo supports Pope Francis in his efforts to raise money for the children in the impoverished Central African Republic. Christo is world famous as 'package artist' of buildings. This time he takes less: he has three hundred numbered and signed DVD boxes in semi-transparent plastic wrapped.
Mallorca has had it with tourists who only come to the Spanish holiday island to cast himself full. The Government of the Balearic Islands now taken steps to bring it to an end. now the booze tours operators can be fined 40,000 euros. The announced the Minister of Tourism in the Balearic Biel Barceló Wednesday.
Turkish President Erdogan has decided to continue the legal battle against Mathias Döpfler, the big boss of the powerful Springer Group. Erdogan has his German lawyer Ralf Höcker therefore instructed to appeal against the decision of the magistrate. This ruled Tuesday that the comments of the media tycoon who firmly supported the satirist Jan Böhmermann's stand, within the right to free speech.
The chances are very small that the European Union has agreed for the summer with visa-free travel for Turks. The European Parliament will only put this issue on the agenda when Turkey has fulfilled all the conditions.
Support for Donald Trump as the new president of the United States is growing. The Republican candidate, who has no majority in the election, but also no competition, Hillary Clinton in the latest poll by Reuters / Ipsos close approached. The new figures promise an exciting fight on November 8, when the Americans decide who succeeds Barack Obama in the White House.
Staff at one of two baggage handlers at Brussels' Zaventem airport on Wednesday stopped work. Passengers flying include Jetair, Etihad and Qatar, will be affected by the strike.
Marc Dutroux makes every Saturday the gym in the basement of the prison in Itter clean and five times a week, he cleans up the courtyard of the complex. Before that receives sentenced to life murderer, kidnapper and rapist about 24 euros per month. That is too little, the most famous prisoner of Belgium. He demands more wages.
The Brazilian Senate on Wednesday began a session that determines the fate of President Dilma Rousseff. If the Senate majority in favor of an impeachment against her, the President shall be immediately suspended and replaced by Vice President Michel Temer.
Every beginning is difficult. Who experienced a very young driver in the Bavarian town of Pfarrkirchen. The three-year-old boy was driving the car of his father in his debut ten bicycles flat.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is embarrassed by recording a short conversation she had with a police officer. In it she called Chinese officials 'very rude.'
After two disastrous years, mountaineers finally have reached the summit of Mount Everest. That the Nepalese office confirmed for tourism. Nine mountain guides arrived Wednesday above.
Germany's gay men convicted under the notorious Section 175 of the German Criminal Code, rehabilitate and compensate. It announced Justice Minister Heiko Maas on Wednesday. The verdict of more than 50,000 men will be destroyed. German anti-discrimination agency, in a legal opinion to the government recommended.
The Taj Mahal, the famous monument in India, suffers from an insect pest. A mosquito species defecate constantly under the white marble. The west side of the mausoleum is covered with green spots.,, These are the feces and larvae of insects that are attracted by the bright white of the Taj Mahal, '' said Bhuvan Vikram, spokesman of the Indian Archaeological Institute.
Special Tunisian units on Wednesday on the northern edge of the capital Tunis, according to local media two slain terrorists and arrested between ten and twenty terrorists. The action is still ongoing. The units have stormed a house in the district Mnihla, about 10 kilometers from the center of Tunis.
The number of jihadists trying to get in between refugees from Germany to Europe increases. According to figures from the German federal police BKA which German media reports. Concrete evidence of attacks are not there, according to the BKA.
Europol may soon rigging faster teams to act against imminent terrorist attacks and cross-border crime. The European police organization gets more opportunities to remove hate messages and jihadist propaganda on the Internet.
The German government wants trucks on all roads of the federal government to pay toll. Since Wednesday a bill presented. The law should apply from July 1, 2018 and will in fact lead to toll on almost all roads.
At least fifty of the 81 Brazilian senators will vote for an impeachment against President Dilma Rousseff. The reported Wednesday the newspaper Folha do Sao Paulo,, after a private poll 'among the members of the Brazilian Senate.
Least fifty people are killed Wednesday came when a car bomb went off in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. More than sixty people were injured, reported the police and emergency services.
In dense fog are an Airbus A320 of the French airline Air France Boeing 777 from the same company Wednesday with another collided at the Paris Roissy-Charles de Gaulle. The Airbus drove to the runway and the Boeing had just arrived from Dakar (Senegal). The aircraft collided with the taxi.
The Greek Coast Guard has since early this week already plucked from the sea six migrants from the Greek island of Chios wanted to swim to Turkey. It was about five Moroccans and an Algerian in Greece did not win a residence permit.
The German anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) will visit the Central Muslim Council in Germany. The party acting in accordance with German media an invitation for a conversation.
Safia Farkash, widow of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi (1922-2011), allowed a number of grandchildren back to Libya. The authorities in Tripoli have given her permission to do so, reported Wednesday the Spanish news agency Europa Press according to Libyan media.
The space telescope Kepler from the US aerospace agency NASA has discovered outside our solar system in 1284 new planets. Nine of them are on a 'livable' distance from the sun. Those planets known thus temperatures where water is liquid. In our solar system, only the Earth and Mars in the 'habitable zone'.
Bernie Sanders on Tuesday (local time) won the Democratic primary in West Virginia. After 88 percent of the votes counted, showed that 51.3 percent of voters had opted for Sanders. Hillary Clinton got 36.1 percent of the electorate behind him.
French President François Hollande and his Socialist government, unable to put an end to the rebellion in his own party, have an unpopular law to reform the labor market pushed through without letting parliament votes on it. Prime Minister Manuel Valls decided to settle the matter by decree, after the conversations were not prejudge opponents from their own circle.
A dating site is going to try Americans who shudder at the thought of Donald Trump president is to lure Canada to link them there in the love of their life. The online marriage bureau responds to the aspiration of many voters that it is high time to emigrate when the real estate billionaire involves the White House.
Five former Secretaries-General of NATO, including the Dutchman Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, British voters have warned of the dangers of leaving the EU. With Lord Carrington, Javier Solana, Lord Robertson and Anders Fogh Rasmussen wrote the former Christian Democrat politician an open letter in which the choice of 'Brexit' was discouraged.
