A 60-year-old British man from Porthcawl, in South Wales, has been sentenced to two years and four months in prison for hiding his deceased mother’s body in a freezer in his living room for almost three years. Meanwhile, he continued to collect her pension and social security benefits, according to various British media outlets.
On Monday, two teenagers were struck by lightning in the French Pyrenees during a mountain hike near Cauterets, in the Hautes-Pyrénées. A 14-year-old boy suffered cardiac arrest. He and a 21-year-old man were transported to the hospital in Tarbes by helicopter.
A 22-year-old man is in critical condition after falling from the Brabo Fountain on Antwerp’s Grote Markt during the night from Saturday to Sunday. Footage circulating online shows him losing his balance while climbing and plummeting from a height of about ten meters.
Een 14-jarige Belgische jongen uit Binche (Henegouwen) is maandagnamiddag verdronken in een steengroeve bij Watissart in het Franse Jeumont, vlak bij de grens tussen België en Frankrijk nabij Erquelinnes. Dat meldde de Franse regionale krant La Voix du Nord.
A London mother underwent groundbreaking surgery in the United States to help her unborn son, Theo, even before he was born. Doctors corrected a serious birth defect in utero in which the intestines grow outside the body, a condition known as gastroschisis.
Are you on holidays in France and in the mood for a refreshing swim in the ocean or a cool lake? Be sure to check that you’re not taking a dip in a body of water where swimming is prohibited. The fine has been significantly increased as of Sunday, August 2.
From Monday, August 3, through August 9, traffic police departments in the Netherlands and various European holiday destinations will be conducting stricter speed checks during Roadpol’s European “Speedweek,” a major collaboration among European traffic police departments.
A late-night game of soccer turned into a nightmare in France on Saturday night into Sunday: a 27-year-old man died while trying to retrieve a soccer ball from the Rhône River, according to the local newspaper Le Progrès.
Greek police have arrested a 26-year-old foreign man on suspicion of manslaughter and robbery in connection with the death of 38-year-old British woman Elisabeth-Jane Ross, according to the British newspaper The Times. Her body was found on July 18 inside a suitcase in an abandoned building in the Kypseli neighborhood of Athens.
Mattia Maestri, a 13-year-old Italian boy who fell into a coma nine years ago after eating contaminated raw cheese, has died. His father announced the news. Since the incident in June 2017, his father has been campaigning for more warnings on the packaging of products made from raw milk or young-aged cheese.