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.
After years of silence, British singer Duffy returned to the stage in London last weekend. In an emotional and deliberately intimate performance for a small group of fans, she made her comeback as a singer. Her return follows a difficult period during which she disappeared from the spotlight for years after a traumatic experience that turned her life upside down.
Six minors, all students at a school in Hasselt, were arrested in mid-June on suspicion of planning an attack, according to the Belgian police and the Limburg Public Prosecutor’s Office.
The Lalique Museum in Wingen-sur-Moder, located in the French department of Bas-Rhin in eastern France, was robbed in the early morning of Sunday, July 5. The stolen items are worth several million euros.
A German family in Dibbesdorf, near Hanover, has been finding hundreds of human bone fragments in their yard every day since April, according to the AD. So far, more than 1,600 bones have been found—from adults as well as teenagers and children—which has led to a lot of speculation in the village.
Amazon is ramping up its satellite internet project this summer. Following a recent launch, the LEO constellation now has 394 satellites in orbit around Earth, and the company says it plans to launch its first service later this year.