Terrifying scenes unfolded on Friday morning aboard a Ryanair flight from Thessaloniki to Memmingen, Germany. Shortly after takeoff, a passenger window came loose, causing a 61-year-old man to be partially sucked out. Fellow passengers managed to pull him back inside at the last minute.
Artist Justin Gignac is working on a unique art project titled “New York City Garbage”: for years, he has been collecting whatever trash he can find around venues where major events take place. He did the same around Madison Square Garden, where Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were married last week.
In northern France, a 17-year-old girl died while celebrating France’s victory over Morocco at the World Cup in the U.S., according to French media reports.
Severe wildfires are ravaging southern Europe. In Andalusia, in southern Spain, at least eleven people have lost their lives in what a Spanish regional minister has called “the worst wildfires ever” in the region.
In Arizona, a shocking medical error is causing quite a stir. A toddler who was pronounced dead at Mercy Gilbert Medical Center was found to still be alive in the morgue five hours later. The boy was rushed to the hospital after an incident at a swimming pool, where a doctor officially pronounced him dead shortly afterward.
The guru of so-called “looksmaxxing” is no more. The American influencer, who had more than two million followers, reportedly drowned in a lake as he was fleeing from the police while on vacation in Thailand. According to local media, Connor Murphy was behaving erratically. He vandalized the luxurious villa where he was staying, walked into a lake, and drowned.
The well-known Van der Valk hotel along the E17 in Nazareth-De Pinte, Flanders, will soon be repurposed: the building will become a European return center for asylum seekers. Interestingly, the restaurant will remain open as usual. “Brunch, lunch, and dinner: we’ll keep serving those,” says manager Thomas Torrekens in a statement to the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad.
Erdogan handed out unusual gifts following the NATO summit in Ankara.
No seaside resort in Belgium is more fashionable than Knokke, just across the border with the Netherlands, but its status as a fashionable seaside resort is increasingly threatened by the disturbances caused mainly by young people from Brussels and northern France.
Things didn’t turn out the way some fans had expected. They feel they didn’t get their money’s worth—in this case, 300 euros. But the organizer is defending himself against the criticism. According to him, it was clear from the start that this was an afterparty at a nightclub and not a full-fledged concert.