Shipbuilders have completed work on the world’s first private icebreaker ship for Russian billionaire Oleg Tinkoff that can be rented out by adventurers for a mere 740,000 EUR (666,000 GBP) per week. The 77-metre (253-foot) long ship named La Datcha was launched by shipbuilding firm Damen Yachting and was commissioned…
A 25-year-old Algerian migrant who tested positive for COVID-19 after arriving illegally in Spain has escaped from hospital quarantine by tying bed sheets together to drop down from an upper floor. The Algerian national arrived at the port of Cartagena in the south-eastern Spanish region of Murcia illegally where he…
The North Sea along Belgian beaches has been glowing blue after the unusually warm weather caused an explosion of bioluminescence plankton. Marine biologist Jan Seys of the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) said: "It is the most beautiful natural phenomenon in our country. I think it is even comparable to the…
A 54-year-old indigenous man has reportedly killed himself out of “guilt and desperation” after being diagnosed with COVID-19. The local authorities said the victim, named Samuel, was found hanging from a tree outside his home in the community of Francisco Leon in the municipality of Ocosingo located in the southern…
An Italian cop has been found guilty and sentenced to five and a half years in prison for raping one of the two American students who he drove home from a nightclub. Pietro Costa was accused of raping one of the two American students in the city of Florence in…
