Nearly a third of the world's population has no reliable clean drinking water according to a new UN study. That is 2.1 billion people, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Children's Fund UNICEF reported Thursday.
The stricter border controls ordered by the German security authorities in the run-up to the G20 have produced a large by-catch. The Westendutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ) reported Monday that the action, which began on June 12, resulted in 673 arrest orders for offenses. They had nothing to do with the meeting of government leaders and heads of state of the world's leading countries in Hamburg.
Lennart Feijen, group chairman of the SP in Zoetermeer, believes that the riots in Hamburg during the G20 are the fault of the police. According to Feijen, it is usually the police who start by force, provokes or permits.
Two Dutch students have developed a Tinder-like dating app for gamers, complete with avatars, quests and tokens.
Thousands of activists set off for two funky days in Hamburg, where the G20 summit takes place on Friday and Saturday. But also in the room where the leaders of the world's economic superpowers meet, it is expected to be called on. In topics such as climate, free trade and migration, 'difficult discussions' are expected in neat diplomatic languages, especially with President Donald Trump.
Facebook is combating spam. By altering the algorithm behind the timeline, users get less sensational news stories and fake information.
Brazilian President Michel Temer filed his charges for corruption on Tuesday as 'fiction', an attack on his government and the whole country.
Former president Ketumile Masire of Botswana died at the age of 91. He played as a head of state a key role in transforming his country into a relatively stable democracy, while other states in the region were fighting corruption and war violence.
The Nepalese government wants to measure the height of the world's highest mountain, the Mount Everest. Is the mountain still 8,848 meters high?
By 2015, approximately 2.2 billion people, almost one third of the world's population, were overweight. Their body mass index (BMI, body weight in kilos divided by the square of the length in meters) was 25 or more. Of them, over 600 million adults and nearly 108 million children (2-19 years) received the diagnosis obesity. Their BMI was over 30. In seventy countries, including the Netherlands, that is more than doubling compared to 1980.
Companies Happitech, Arrythmia Alliance and Bug Labs announce the launch of the Heart For Heart initiative. Heart for Heart invites people to participate in the world's largest and first cancer-sponsored heart health initiative.
One of the perpetrators of the London attack last weekend had applied for a company that also provides security for Wimbledon, the world's most important tennis tournament held next month. According to the newspaper The Telegraph, Khuram Butt would have a conversation with the company at the end of this month.
The world's richest country has been hamstring. Qatar is fearing food shortages now declared to be paralyzed by much of the Arab world because of its ties with muslim extremists. The confrontation between the allies of the West may have far-reaching consequences for the struggle against Islamic state, the war in Syria and even the World Cup in 2022.
The Consumer Electronics Show, the world's largest technology fair, is coming to Amsterdam. On October 26th there is an event in the Beurs van Berlage: CES Unveiled Amsterdam.
Players travel for the first time in the Far Cry series to America and explore solo or in coop the calming but insane world of Montana. There they try to survive and fight for freedom. Far Cry 5 is available from February 27th.
Software Security Officer John McCafee puts his capital full in bitcoins. After purchasing a gaming company, the controversial ict-guru targets everything on the digital currency. That price went by the $ 2700 each on Thursday.
Amazon has a new market on the eye. The American company, the world's largest online store, also seems to want to become a supermarket chain. With self-scanners, without cash registers and no employees.
Facebook is going to stream eSports matches. ESports company ESL will broadcast 5500 hours of matches. This includes the game Counter Strike: Global Offensive.
After a sixteen-day train journey in Chengdu Central China, a freight train arrives with 26 tons of pork from the Netherlands. It seems a slow ride, but Xinhua said on Saturday that the train is forty days faster than a freighter. The plane is also not a serious option on the route. The train from or to 'The main logistics center of the Netherlands' is more than 1000 kilograms of freight over 1000 euros cheaper than a freight plane.
The low volatility in financial markets gives the topman of Goldman Sachs major concerns. 'This is not normal.'
Apple has become worth $ 800 billion. Thanks to its head start of more than 2% Monday, the world's largest technology company went through the magic border.
Russia has blocked the Chinese app WeChat, which has around 900 million users worldwide. That is what the Chinese newspaper reports South China Morning Post on Saturday.
It's a dream of many people: racing for a real Formula 1 team. For a gamer that can be reality, because the Formula One team McLaren is looking for a virtual racer. The lucky one can test the F1 bolides for a year on the simulator.
Message service WhatsApp camped Wednesday evening with a global malfunction. On social media, the complaints about the non-working app rained. Tens of thousands of Dutch users reported problems through Allestoringen.nl.
Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro get a brother: Windows 10 S. Microsoft presented the education-oriented edition of Windows Tuesday. According to Microsoft, the new Windows variant is faster and safer and therefore seems to be able to compete with Chrome OS.
Norwegian billionaire Kjell Inge Roekke promises to put most of his ability to remove the plastic soup from the world's seas. The former fisherman, who started to grow in the oil industry, is starting to fund a ship that is investigating the floating plastic waste in the oceans.
How to become the oldest person in the world? Stay away from the rum. That is the motto of the 117-year-old Jamaican-Mosse Violet Brown, currently the oldest man on earth. Brown, known to her friends and family as 'Aunt V ', was born on March 10, 1990.
Smart Watches are useful for notifications, but they lack the classic look of a watch. Fortunately, there are also hybrid smart watches that offer the best of both worlds. We took three examined.
Pope Francis will visit South Sudan in October. The Catholic prelate was going've been planning for the African country stricken by civil war. The violence was always the stumbling block.
The American banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller is Monday in New York deceased at the age of 101. He was heir to the ability of one of the world's most famous and wealthiest families.
