At first, the children still thought their parents were playing a game with them. Unfortunately, it was deadly serious. The French couple left their 3-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter motherless and also blindfolded on a deserted country road in the Portuguese countryside.
Petr Vlachovsky may never be active as a football coach ever again and may not even hold any position in the world of football for his entire life. The remarkable punishment was given to the Czech football coach by European football federation UEFA, which is also asking the World Football Federation FIFA to take over the punishment.
A young man from Naples has died after going out for an ice cream with his friends.
The international gymnastics federation World Gymnastics has decided to lift restrictions on athletes from Russia and Belarus. Consequently, according to Russian news agency TASS, Russian athletes will now be allowed to participate in competitions again under the national flag and with their own national anthem.
In May, a tourist from New Zealand suddenly plunged into the world-famous Trevi Fountain in Rome. It's not yet clear why he did so but he's already suffering from a hefty financial burden.
On Tuesday morning, three people are still missing in the eastern German city of Görlitz after a residential building collapsed on Monday night. Authorities are investigating whether a gas explosion caused the disaster close to the train station.
28-year-old Hugo Huyghebaert from Namur, Belgium, had been traveling through Asia for months and was normally supposed to return to Belgium on April 1. But the adventurous twenty-something was not on the plane home. His family notified the Belgian and Chinese authorities and an intensive search for the man has been underway ever since. However, hopes are dwindling week by week.
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.
Last weekend, a freight train hit a bus in the Thai capital Bangkok. In the process, eight occupants of the bus were killed and dozens of others were injured.
A couple of hikers were attacked by a herd of cows on a mountain meadow in eastern Tyrol.