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A tiger in the zoo in the US city of Omaha was not amused that a woman he was trying to pet. The predator bit the 33-year-old in her hand and caused severe injuries.

Two members of a committee of Pope Francis have been arrested for leaking confidential information to the press.

The police at the weekend in metropolitan Los Angeles nearly five hundred people were arrested at two music festivals, raves, with Halloween theme. The authorities said Monday that detentions were made for public drunkenness, illegal drug possession and possession of false identity documents.

Three adults and three children in Maricopa, in the US state of Arizona, have ended up in a hospital after they were attacked by a huge swarm of bees. In an adult stabbing were counted in the hospital three hundred.

An estimated 5,000 year old yew tree in Scotland appears no longer only masculine but also will attract female. The yew in Fortingall, the oldest tree in Britain, always produced only pollen and was thus seen as a male tree. But this year the yew suddenly also contributed three ripe berries, making the tree in any case partly female appears to have become.

Ten Monday whales are stranded on the beach of the northern French port of Calais. Seven of the group of pilot whales are deceased. The local fire department animal protectionists helped bring the surviving three back in the water, French media reported.

The elections in Turkey were hampered by restrictions that were imposed by the authorities on the media through violence and the security situation in general. This is reported by the official observer missions of the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on Monday.

The German prosecutor brings a 93- year-old man to trial for complicity in murder in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Doctors have indicated that there are no medical objections to judge the man.

A motorist is Sunday the steps of the entrance to a metro station in the center of Hamburg cut reason. Police in the German city has no explanation for the unexpected route yet who took the 36-year-old driver.

The Peruvian paratrooper Fernando Gava came literally hanging between heaven and earth. He came immediately after spawning in the doorway 3 km height with a line caught the plane. That way he dangled less than 30 minutes under the plane.

A record number of 218 394 refugees managed to reach Europe by boat in October. That the UNHCR United Nations announced Monday.

An initial examination of the black box of the crashed Russian plane showed that the pilot sent no distress signal. The Research Committee of the Egyptian government also reported Monday that the unit had not been touched by an external object.

The cause of the crash of an Airbus A321 of the Russian airline Kogalimavia Saturday in Egypt has nothing to do with the unit. This emphasized the airline Monday, according to news agency Sputnik.

Israeli soldiers have shot dead Monday in the West Bank, a Palestinian and a second captured. The soldiers approached the two at a gas station next to a checkpoint. One of the Palestinians pulled a knife and then tried one of the soldiers stabbing them. The man was shot and died on the spot from his injuries.

Weather is the South China Sea under discussion. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday in Seoul that he is with South Korea and the United States wants to ensure that the sea remains an open and peaceful place. Shinzo conducts talks in Seoul with South Korean President Park Geun-hye.

The Dusseldorf airport is quiet Monday morning as a bomb must be defused. It is a dud of £ 250 from the Second World War. The German army let the bomb explode at the site.

China persecutes the former chief editor of the official Communist Party newspaper, the Xinjiang Daily. The 58-year-old Zhao Xinwei must answer for corruption, after he had been critical of the way the State had handled the violence in the western region of Xinjiang.

The owner of the missing freighter El Faro is through the courts to prevent families of the 33 missing passengers can file a claim. Writes CNN. El Faro disappeared a month ago when it was on the way from Florida to Puerto Rico. The ship probably sank after it hit by Hurricane Joaquin in trouble.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has knighthood in Australia abolished again. The naming of ' Knight ' and ' Lady ' was only short-lived. The ability to reward people with knighthood was in fact, after nearly thirty years of absence, until 2014 reintroduced by former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

The first victims of the plane crash in Egypt Sunday from Cairo to Russia flown. The 162 bodies were brought to St. Petersburg. There, the victims will be investigated further and identified.

A US soldier thought to have fun dressed up for Halloween, a lot has been incurred. The soldier tried suicide bomber dressed as a military base in Fort Bragg to come, but alarm bells went off.

The Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu of the ruling AK Party has to work the other political parties called together a new constitution. He proposed Sunday after the parliamentary elections to jointly work towards a Turkey that is free from conflicts and tensions.

Samantha Geimer, the woman who as a girl by Roman Polanski would be abused, is very pleased that a Polish court has rejected extradition of Polish- American director to the US. She calls the decades-long struggle " a farce that causes unnecessary suffering."

Leader Ayman al- Zawahiri, the terrorist group al- Qaida militant Muslim groups suggested joining forces in Iraq and Syria against Russia and Western countries. Zawahiri made ​​his appeal in an audio recording released Sunday.

Poor Sienna Miller. British actress dared to appear on British television without pins a poppy on her dress. It is a form of sacrilege that is not forgiven by many of her compatriots. ' Disrespectful ' chants tabloid The Sun for example, and on Twitter, many say it after the newspaper.

The parliamentary elections in Turkey were held under unfair conditions. This has Selahattin Demirtas, one of the two leaders of the leftist pro-Kurdish party HDP, said Sunday in reaction to the outcome of the vote.

Activists accuse Syrian rebels of using caged prisoners as human shields. Insurgents would transfer inmates cars to the Ghouta area near the capital Damascus.

The Portuguese Algarve is Sunday hit by storms. Places along the coast thereby experiencing heavy flooding.

In the Turkish and ethnic predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir Sunday night riots broke out after the parliamentary elections. Security forces have fired tear gas fired at demonstrators who threw stones.

Certainly eleven refugees, including six children, were killed early Sunday when their boat capsized off the coast of the Greek island of Samos. Fifteen passengers were saved.