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The storm Patricia has weakened to a hurricane in the fourth category. However the hurricane remains extremely dangerous, warned the US National Hurricane Center (NHC).

At least nine people in Libya were killed when mortar shells ended up in demonstrating crowds. About twenty people were injured according to medical sources.

D66 wants the NPO and government websites do the Flash Player banned. MP Kees Verhoeven raised the question raised by responsible State Sander Dekker.

The enigmatic pictures of the Nazi train with chests full of bullion in a Polish real tunnel or a fine piece of ' photoshopping' ?

A court in Turkey has 244 members sentenced to anti-government protests in Istanbul in 2013 to prison terms of between 2.5 and 14.5 months. Seven defendants were acquitted.

Minister Ronald Plasterk ( Interior) makes twice chances of a Big Brother Award, the prize for the biggest privacy violator. The minister was nominated for the Big Brother Audience Award. As the experts have now joined, says organizer Bits of Freedom.

A hunter in Norway mistakenly shot dead two reindeer that ran in a zoo in northern Norway. The hunter realized shortly after the incident that he had seen the fence around the zoo overlooked.

A former chairman of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday along with four others officially indicted for corruption. It involves John Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda, which from 2013 to 2014 was president. He would have received more than $ 1.3 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen to give them the construction of a conference center in Macau.

The prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor ( OM) in France does not think that Marine Le Pen should be prosecuted for a controversial statement that she did five years ago. The leader of the far-right National Front party in 2010 compared Muslim street preachers with Nazis. According to the prosecution which statement is true " shocking ," but at the same time part of " the right to freedom of expression ."

The Swiss go to the polls Sunday to two hundred members of the National Assembly , comparable to our Lower House to choose. There are also 45 seats for the Ständerat , the Senate , at stake.

Typhoon Koppu has Sunday morning local time, reached the Philippines . Koppu went in Casiguran on the northern island of Luzon on land and bring strong winds and a lot of rain with it . According to the BBC wind speeds measured at 250 kilometers per hour. This Koppu is now a category 4 typhoon .

North Korea is serious about ending its nuclear weapons program , the country is welcome at the negotiating table . US President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart Park Geun-hye expressed Friday in Washington unanimous: the door is open to North Korea's presidential leader Kim Jong -un .

Portrait of Catrina Hooghsaet that Rembrandt painted in 1657 , should not for the time being England . The British Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has decided that the cloth is too important to resale to disappear abroad . The decision applies to mid- February 2016 , in the hope that reports a British buyer for that time. That the BBC reported Friday .

When the access of the Czech nuclear power plant Temelin went this week suddenly off the alarm bells . The super- sensitive equipment had measured radiation at one of the employees.

Heinz Strothmann director of the Norwegian Polar Park, the northernmost zoo in Europe , is deeply saddened . Hunters have shot dead two of his moose.

One of the largest elephant ever seen in Zimbabwe , was slain by a German fighter . Barely three months after the world have expressed disgust over the hunting pictures of the slain lion Cecil, the German pose proudly next forty to sixty year old giant. Elephant tusks weighed 54 kilos.

A refugee is late Thursday in Bulgaria deceased after he was hit by a bullet from a border guard. Afghan migrant attempted with a group of compatriots illegally stabbing the Turkish - Bulgarian border. When they were stopped , they resist , reported the Bulgarian Interior Ministry on Friday . "One of the border guards fired warning shots and he explained that a bullet ricocheted and hit the migrant , who later died ," said a senior government official told a national radio station.

Due to heavy rainfall north of the US city of Los Angeles Thursday mudslides and floods occur . Roads were closed and motorists stranded. In photographs the American media put online , to see his car stuck in the mud. The fire she is provided assistance. There are no casualties reported .

More than half of the Dutch (60 percent) do not know if he has enough income after retirement to pay all expenses . Among this group are many people who can hardly make ends meet and people under 45 years .

Egypt , Japan , Senegal, Ukraine and Uruguay on Thursday elected for a term of two years in the United Nations Security Council . The general meeting of the national organization chose the countries after the New Year Chad , Chile , Jordan, Lithuania and Nigeria replaced .

A food bank in the German town of Dachau refugees will not help . The food bank has previously pedagogical reasons: refugees must learn according to a spokesman with money to go .

Poachers have two spots in the large nature Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe, a total of 26 elephants slain with the poison cyanide . The foresters are trying to track down poachers in the vast area with dogs and drones.

A large brown bear is Wednesday night in the eastern Russian city Gabarovsk to the dismay of the public and staff entered a shopping center in the city. The animal was trapped and gradually began to run in panic to and fro, bystanders ignoring.

Former President Mathieu Kerekou of Benin on Wednesday deceased at the age of 82 . Kerekou was decades in power in the African country.

British justice chasing a group of hackers who stole converted over 25 million euro of bank accounts of individuals. According to the BBC , they did so by sending a Word document containing ' afluister' software blocked.

Netherlands faced in the past year more often with digital espionage attacks that threaten national security and economic interests. This was reported by the National Cyber ​​Security Centre ( NCSC ) Wednesday .

The search for victims of a massive landslide in Guatemala has been suspended. The disaster came certainly 280 people died. Seventy people are still missing , reported the National Disaster Management Coordination ( Conred ) Tuesday.

Previously, in police investigations binders full of seized documents , but now it's about ontiegelijk more information on smartphones, tablets and computers. To address this sea of ​​information to cope , the police together with the Dutch Forensic Institute ( NFI) developed a system to organize data for investigators and to be able to search much faster : Hansken .

Houthi rebels have bombed the home of the musician who composed the anthem of Yemen. The act is seen as a symbolic attack on the unity of the country, according to the Arabic news channel al- Arabiya.

The symbol of the city of Berlin, the bear Schnute is dead. Employees of her stay in Köllnischen Park have the animal euthanized Sunday.