Ben jij ook zo verknocht aan een kopje koffie? Helpt het je doorheen een drukke werkdag of veeleisende examenperiode? Uit een nieuw onderzoek blijkt nu echter dat het zwarte goud ook een opvallend verborgen nadeel voor onze gezondheid meedraagt.
A swimming lake in Halle, in eastern Germany, has introduced a new admission policy under which swimmers who do not speak enough German are denied entry. The reason? They would not be able to properly understand the safety instructions.
Five people who were on the same flight in France as the doctor diagnosed with Ebola have been placed in home isolation for 21 days. French Health Minister Stéphanie Rist announced this on Wednesday on the French television channel France 2.
Scientists warn that Russia’s nuclear Burevestnik missile could release radioactive particles into the air. According to a new analysis by two researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the cruise missile likely uses an open-cycle nuclear propulsion system, in which outside air flows directly through the reactor core and is expelled as thrust. This is reported by the Times of India.
Will your vacation money soon be flowing to Abu Dhabi? It’s certainly possible, as investors from the capital of the United Arab Emirates are systematically buying up a large number of bungalow parks, campgrounds, and vacation resorts in Europe.
Since the wolf’s return to the Netherlands in 2018, at least 41 animals have been killed by poachers, according toa new report bythe independent research firm EcoJust. According to the researchers, this is not an isolated incident, but a systemic problem in which wolves are being killed on a large scale and with little risk.
Freddy Horion, the notorious Belgian six-time murderer, has been released from prison after 47 years, according to Het Laatste Nieuws. On Monday, he was transferred to a secure unit at the forensic care center in Rekem, a borough of Lanaken in the province of Limburg, Belgium. There, he is being prepared for a possible return to society, including through the use of an ankle monitor and strict supervision.
The heat wave in France has already claimed the lives of at least 20 people who died from drowning. Marina Ferrari, Minister of Sports, Youth, and Social Life, announced this on Monday on France Inter.
In Carpentras, a city in Provence in southern France, two children, ages 2 and 4, were found dead on Monday afternoon in their mother’s car. The car was parked in the family’s garage.
Prominent Russian journalist Grigory Nekhoroshev (69), who in 2008 was the first to reveal President Vladimir Putin’s relationship with Olympic gymnast Alina Kabayeva, was found dead under suspicious circumstances in Riga, the Latvian capital where he had been living in exile as a political refugee for 11 years.