The American action hero Steven Seagal (63) will occur during New Year with his blues band in Belgrade. He is during the New Year festival on the main stage in front of the Serbian parliament, the television RTS reported Wednesday.
An Iraqi refugee who Tuesday in Sint-Niklaas helped out at the launching of a balloon, unwittingly made a vluchtje. The Iraqi, who does not speak a word of Dutch, did not understand what 'Let go!' means and thus remained on the edge of the balloon basket.
The effects of El Niño, the weather phenomenon that occurs every two to seven years, will next year according to the US space agency NASA are at least as bad as in 1998. The threat of hunger and disease for millions of people will be there in 2016 by increase set aid organizations.
Heavy rainfall and storms have resulted in coastal areas of Ireland Wednesday to much flooding. In approximately 13,000 households to the power failure, reported the Irish Times. The most severely affected the southwestern region of Cork. There is since Tuesday 60 millimeters of rain came down.
The Belgian reactor Doel 1 is Wednesday again 'turned on' and connected to the grid. This has confirmed the utility company Electrabel.
Tense wait for the residents of the historic city of York in the north east of England on what will happen in the coming hours. Yesterday the water subsided slightly in the River Ouse, which bisects the city. But tonight Storm Frank went ashore in Ireland. The storm was accompanied by heavy rain and strong winds. Thousands of homes were run out of power.
While the Netherlands is heading the hottest new and old in years, and ski slopes in the Alps have to do it almost without exception with artificial snow, Istanbul is getting ready for an overdose of wintry precipitation.
The Turkish police have arrested two men suspected that on New Year's Eve in the capital Ankara had wanted to commit a suicide attack. It would be two members of the terrorist organization Islamic State, the Hurriyet newspaper reported Wednesday.
Severe weather, what storm? While large parts of northern England and south-west Scotland for the second time in a week time are white, the top official in charge of limiting flood damage has yet to return from vacation.
The number of Islamic institutions and Muslims were the target of vandalism, assaults or abuse has multiplied in France this year. The government center charting racist and anti-Semitic incidents, there had been more than four hundred. About this center in 2014 recorded 133 cases. The increase is very large and very distressing, said the chief of the center, Gilles Clavreul, told the daily Le Parisien.
When the floods in the north of England are looters active. British media reported Wednesday that committed a series of thefts in York in a flooded neighborhood. The local police have complained that it is incomprehensible that there are those who inflict the flood victims more suffering.
US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday lashed out fiercely at Islamic State. She labels the violence of terror against Christians, Iraqi Yezidis and other religious minorities in the Middle East as 'genocide'.
A high-ranking official and advisor to the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is deceased in a car accident. That made the state news agency KCNA announced on Wednesday local time.
That US presidential candidate Donald Trump is a wealthy man and has no problems to finance his campaign, is another example of his intention to place large ads. This should in states such as Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina appear where the new year is going to be voted on first in the preliminaries of the American elections.
Once again, a US presidential candidate withdrew. This time it's former governor George Pataki of New York State. According to the newspaper The Boston Globe, the 69-year-old Republican Tuesday US time to his supporters in New Hampshire said that he cease his campaign. A spokesman for Pataki did not confirm the news.
The terrorist cell which was raided in the night of Monday to Tuesday in Belgium, was created in Brussels motorcycle club Kamikaze Riders'. Belgian media reports said Wednesday.
Nearly four years after a train crash with 51 dead and 789 wounded in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, the leaders sentenced to long prison terms. The former ministers of Transport, Juan Pablo Schiavi and Ricardo Jaime received Tuesday for eight years and imposed six years in prison respectively.
In the flood area in the north of England is a bridge collapsed after day-long rain. The bridge in the town of 7000 inhabitants Tadcaster in Yorkshire broke down Tuesday night and plunged into the River Wharfe.
The man who by Kremlin watchers is seen as a possible successor to Vladimir Putin, already showed less good with firearms to go than the current Russian president.
In a tunnel in Breda Tuesday detonated heavy fireworks. That happened to the Blue Keiweg. According to the police there got damaged at least one car. No one was hurt.
Georgi Kvirikashvili, the new prime minister of the former Soviet state of Georgia. The parliament approved his nomination Tuesday well. Earlier, the president agreed with the recommendation.
The third storm in a month to keep coming throughout northern England breath this evening and tonight. The fear that storm 'Frank' the devastating task of pastors Desmond and Eva will finish, was confirmed in the last few hours.
Also at the end of the year, every day still thousands of refugees from the Balkan route to Austria and Germany. Just on Tuesday had until midday counted in Slovenia 2000 new migrants, said Secretary of the Interior Bostjan Sefic in Ljubljana.
The Lebanese customs Tuesday at the airport of Beirut five tons of drugs intercepted. The amphetamine pills and hashish were hidden in a party school benches that would be shipped to Egypt, said a security source.
A couple is Tuesday in England found guilty of plotting an attack in London. The 25-year-old Mohammed Rehman and his 24-year-old woman Sana Ahmed Khan have extremely hazardous chemicals purchased via eBay and Rehman did in his backyard in suburban Reading experiments with explosives.
By American bombing in Syria in the past month at least ten ISIS leaders killed. Several killed terrorist leaders would have had ties with the perpetrators of the attacks in Paris early November.
About a thousand Russian executives get around New Year a special gift sent from the Kremlin. It is a book of four hundred pages' Words that change the world 'hot. It is a comprehensive collection of speeches of President Vladimir Putin.
Spanish police have a mentally retarded man of 59 years freed from a cage in the south of the country. He was there with his brother and sister locked up 'for his own safety', while they conceded his monthly pension of one thousand euro.
The extremists of Islamic State (IS) have executed in eighteen months an estimated 420 people from their own ranks. These are the observers of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) Tuesday raised.
The Belgian 'problem reactors' must must stop completely closed and Belgium with nuclear power. An accident in the Belgian nuclear sector represents a huge threat to the population of Belgium, Netherlands and Germany.
