Bangladesh on Wednesday early in the Islamist party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami (73) hanged in the central prison of Dhaka. He was sentenced to death for war crimes during the war of independence with Pakistan in 1971.
If everything goes according to plan, the Brazilian Senate is Wednesday at 14.00 (Dutch time) convened to vote on the question whether an impeachment is put in motion against President Dilma Rousseff. In mid-April, the Brazilian Lower House voted for it after days of debate. The Senate could be engaged according to Brazilian media until Thursday with the issue.
Silvio Berlusconi, owner of AC Milan, is negotiating with Chinese investors about selling a stake in the Italian club.
British biologists on Tuesday published a comprehensive report on the situation in the plant world. In 'State of the World's Plants' all hitherto known 390,000 described species with leaves and grain. The vast majority flourish.
The Swiss bank UBS is considering super rich clients to impose a penalty interest for holding too much cash, as chief executive Sergio Ermotti announced at a shareholders meeting in Basel.
An American who had shot himself in the arm while cleaning his handgun, found that only three days later. Only then did he put on a new shirt and he saw the bullet hole.
'Beng'! Hikers scared to death, wildlife flees, horses prance and hunters ringing ears. The cause hard gunshots in the long term hearing loss. Since the German guild complained for years about. Reason two professional shooters to court to step in and demand that animals now 'softly' may kill with a silencer on the barrel. That may, after all, even when shooting rabbits in the cemetery.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said in an interview with the Queen that on an anti-corruption summit Thursday in London, leaders come from 'incredibly corrupt countries'. 'There are a number of leaders of incredibly corrupt countries to Britain from Nigeria and Afghanistan, probably the most corrupt countries in the world,' Cameron told the queen.
Although there are fewer refugees coming in, Germany still continues to controls at the border with Austria. This is necessary, according to the government in Berlin because the defense of the external borders of the European Union not yet desired functions.
In a bomb attack on an armored police vehicle Tuesday in the center of the eastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir cases thirteen wounded. The authorities reported that a car bomb exploded as the vehicle passed.
The chairman of a German media group last week sided with the satirist who watch the wrath of the Turkish President on the neck made it does not on its words. This has given a German court Tuesday. Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a gag order requested by Matthias Döpfner, the CEO of Axel Springer, but then received no reply to the court.
For the first time in 25 years Germany expands its army from sharply. The Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, announced Tuesday that nearly 20,000 people work in the armed forces over the next seven years. It involves 14,300 soldiers and 4,400 civilians.
The United Nations will investigate allegations that Turkish security forces have used brute force against the Kurdish population in the Cizre region. High Commissioner for Human Rights Council Zaid Al-Hussein said reports that more than a hundred people were burnt alive,, extremely worrying '. The victims were in the basements of three buildings that were surrounded by Turkish troops.
The Hungarian parliament has decided to hold a referendum on the plan of the EU to divide refugees on the union. The proposal from the Conservative government voted the deputies of the ruling party Fidesz and the extreme-right party Jobbik. Is expected to draw the opposition in the Constitutional Court objected to the decision.
Barack Obama will be the first US president to visit Hiroshima, one of two Japanese cities which were destroyed at the end of the Second World War by an American atomic bombing. This was announced by the White House Tuesday.
Sly thieves in the port of Antwerp tens of thousands of liters of diesel stolen. The collar criminals a hole in an underground pipe and then tapped using a garden hose huge amounts of the fuel.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff shortly seems to be put on a siding. Attempts by a political ally, interim parliament president Waldir Maranhão, to stop the start of an impeachment, are discontinued. Maranhão has decided to declare a crucial session on Rousseffs 'impeachment' invalid, revoked soon.
In fatal stabbing at a station in a suburb of Munich was probably still no Islamic motif in the game. That the Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann Tuesday after a cabinet meeting of the state government said.
Syrians who are fleeing the violence in their own country to be flogged at the Turkish border and even shot at by Turkish border guards. In addition, people are injured and killed, says Human Rights Watch Tuesday.
A series of air strikes in the Syrian province of Idlib on Tuesday to at least ten people killed. It reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, that his information cooperate with defenders on the ground.
Afghan and US forces, the son of a former Pakistani prime minister freed who was kidnapped in Pakistan three years ago. This was announced by the Pakistani government Tuesday.
A judge in the US state of Arkansas on Monday resigned after allegations that he had reduced the sentences of defendants in exchange for sexual favors. This was reported. On the computer of the departed judge thousands of photos were found naked suspects.
The Italian authorities have arrested Tuesday two terrorist suspects allegedly planned attacks in Italy and Britain. In two other suspects are still being sought, Ansa news agency reported.
He was only fifteen years old but has made a discovery which many advanced scientists only dream of. Canadian teenager William Gadoury has by analyzing galaxies discovered a Mayan city in Mexico.
The devastation that has caused the wildfire in parts of the Canadian city of Fort McMurray, appears smaller than expected. About 90 percent of the 80,000 inhabitants city could be saved, the premier of the province of Alberta reported on Monday (local time).
Emergency services on Tuesday morning recovered the body of the crane that fell Monday with his crane at the gymnasium of a school complex in Kortrijk.
A young man on Tuesday morning at a railway station in Grafing, near Munich, travelers attacked with a knife. Four people were injured, one of whom seriously.
L'Eternel Printemps, a rare sculpture of Auguste Rodin, has raised Monday during an auction at Sotheby's $ 20.4 million (almost 18 million). That is much higher than the amount for which the auction house in New York was initially assumed. Sotheby's estimated that the image, which dates from 1901/1902 and from a single block of marble carved, would yield between 8 and 12 million dollars (7 to 10.5 million).
In the American city of Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, is a new, black police chief appointed. Delrish Moss gives Since Monday (local time) led to the controversial police. The appointment is part of the package of reforms of the police and judiciary.
Two tornadoes on Monday (local time) in the south of the US state of Oklahoma come to the ground and left a trail of destruction. According to local authorities, two people were killed, including an elderly man who died in his home near Wynnewood. The other victim died in the city of Connersville.
