A suspected arson attack that left four tenants hospitalised has badly damaged apartment blocks owned by a multi-millionaire lotto winner. Fire fighters attempt to put out a fire at a house owned by Kursat Yildirim, in Dortmund, Germany, on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. Twenty people had to be evacuated. (Newsflash)…
A quick-thinking 11-year-old has been hailed a hero after he saved a 74-year-old man from a smoke-filled flat. Photo shows Finn Elias in a patrol car and Tobias Hilbert, the head of the police station, next to him, undated. The boy, 11, rescued a pensioner, 74, from fire in Hoyerswerda,…
A six-year-old boy has died and his mother has been seriously injured after a gas explosion in their flat in Spain. https://vimeo.com/828270997?share=copy The incident took place on Circunvalacion Encina Street, in Granada, in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia, on Monday, 15th May, with the six-year-old dying in the blaze…
Thousands of new apartments should be built above fast food restaurants like McDonald's to solve city housing shortages, politicians in Germany have urged. Left-wing members in the capital Berlin say the brownfield sites would solve a chronic housing shortage in the city without having to find new land for building.…
Not feeling so flush? Then this could be the perfect bijou apartment so small that you can cook your supper in the kitchen while you are on the loo. The six-square-metre flat in Shanghai, eastern China, has been advertised for rent at a bargain CNY 380 (GBP 46)-per-month. The pokey…
