Since April 1, it has been prohibited in France to buy, sell, import, possess or use nicotine products for oral use. And this ban firmly hits the Swedish economy because French people were buying these nicotine pouches en masse from the Swedish market.
England is gearing up for the warmest day ever recorded in May, with temperatures expected to reach 35°C on Monday. This would break the previous record for May at 32.8°C by a whopping 2.2°C.
A new attempt to recover the carcass of Timmy the whale that was stranded off the coast of Denmark will be made early next week, German media reports. Three attempts have already failed. Meanwhile, the risk of the carcass exploding is increasing while injuries deceased humpback whale were also noted.
On a Dutch dune and beach strip, Flemish hobby searchers Nick (32) and Lisa (28) made a sensational find. They stumbled upon an approximately 10,000-year-old mammoth tooth, with tooth root still present and in particularly good condition.
A two-year-old girl has died in northwestern Spain after being trapped for hours in a car in which temperatures became unbearable to survive.
Did an underwater illusion cause five particularly experienced divers to lose their lives in the Indian Ocean archipelago?
China's Guangxi region was hit by an earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale. In the process, 13 buildings collapsed and at least two people have already been killed. A search is still underway under the rubble for one missing person. Four people were injured and taken to the hospital. They are not in mortal danger. This was reported by Chinese state broadcaster CGTN and the state news agency Xinhua.
A couple of hikers were attacked by a herd of cows on a mountain meadow in eastern Tyrol.
In recent weeks, humpback whale Timmy became a household name against his will. Daily updates about his situation and where he was were coming in. Unfortunately, a protracted rescue operation was unsuccessful. The Danish Environmental Protection Agency confirmed Wednesday that the dead specimen that washed ashore on Tuesday off the coast of the Danish island of Anholt is indeed the hotly debated Timmy.
"There is no longer a danger to the population," police reported via the German newspaper Bild. Indeed, an adult tiger had escaped in Schkeuditz, Germany, northwest of Leipzig. Police were called and officers shot the animal dead.