Accountant PwC is banned for two years on the Indian financial market. The office missed a $ 1.7 billion fraud case. PwC is not allowed to carry out book checks of listed companies during those years.
An Australian driver had the fright of his life when he looked into his side mirror and saw an unexpected passenger. A snake of about two meters long had wrapped itself around the car mirror.
The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls his country a forerunner in the field of press freedom. On the Turkish Day of Working Journalists, which was celebrated on Wednesday, Erdogan said: 'Turkey is one of the leading countries in the world in terms of press freedom, the latest communication technologies, social media and internet journalism.'
The party of Ali Abdullah Saleh, former president of Yemen, has appointed a successor. On Sunday, the party announced that Sadeq Amin Abou Rass was following the party leader who had been killed last month. Abou Rass was formerly minister of agriculture.
In the metropolis of Sydney, the mercury reached 47.3 degrees Celsius on Sunday. That is not a record, in 1939 it was slightly warmer. The asphalt has been melted by the heat. The authorities call for cancellation of sports competitions. Relief workers have opened special refrigerated reception places for homeless people.
While the United States is suffering from extremely low temperatures, Australia is dealing with a large heat wave. This causes forest fires, in which several buildings fell prey on the outskirts of Melbourne. On one of the highways in the state of Victoria, the asphalt was melted by the heat of more than 40 degrees.
A clinic in Bangkok offers a special treatment for the male genitals. It is possible to have the skin bleached around the penis. For this, use is made of lasers.
The Israeli parliament passed a bill on Tuesday that makes it more difficult to hand over parts of Jerusalem after a peace agreement with the Palestinians. The Palestinians condemn the proposal because it undermines every opportunity to resume peace talks.
As a result of the drought in the Cape Town region, the consumption of drinking water in the South African metropolis is further limited. From January 1, 2018, a resident of Cape Town may not use more than an average of forty liters of water per day. That is halving the current permitted quantity.
In large parts of the Belgian Ardennes it snows so hard that the motorways are virtually impassable in some places. According to the ANWB it is on the E411 that leads from Namur to Luxembourg. Especially around the Duchy, traffic is stuck in many places.
Large parts of the United States and Canada have been hit by an attack of extremely cold air from the polar regions, resulting in extreme weather conditions and disruption of public life. Rainfall and temperature records were broken.
The stage of the German Opera in Berlin has suffered considerable water damage due to a broken sprinkler system. The lighting and parts of the computer network are also out of operation due to the abundant water.
British Queen Elizabeth celebrates her husband Prince Philip (96) during her annual Christmas speech, of which parts have already been released on Christmas Eve. About the man, with whom she celebrated the 70th wedding anniversary this year, she says that he is 'an indispensable support' and that he has 'a unique sense of humor'.
Heavy snowfall has turned large parts of northern and central Greece into a winter landscape. The state television (ERT) reported that hundreds of motorists were stuck all night until Saturday in a huge traffic jam about 100 kilometers north of Athens. Several trucks were stranded on the icy roads at this important north-south axis. The problem could only be solved in the early Saturday morning.
The death toll following the tropical storm Kai-Tak that swept across large parts of the Philippines last weekend, has risen to almost ninety. The authorities report that. Dozens of people are still missing.
The US government has strongly criticized Russia and China for a policy document for a new national security strategy. It gives an analysis of Moscow as 'rival' and 'bad actor on the world stage', despite Trumps own wish for warmer ties with President Vladimir Putin.
The tropical storm Kai-Tak, which ravaged parts of the Philippines during the weekend, killed at least seventeen people. About thirty others are missing in the city of Naval, where landslides have occurred due to heavy rainfall.
The Australian police arrested a 59-year-old man who attempted to sell rocket parts from North Korea.
A Chinese man has to go into the cell for a year because he has been standing on a portrait of Djengis Khan. The thirteenth-century ruler is still honored by Mongolia and parts of China. The Chinese, who is only called Luo in the newspaper South China Morning Post, confessed that his action had disrupted public order.
And again a severed foot washed up on the Canadian coast near Sooke. Since 2007 it is the 18th foot that ended up there. For local residents and the police it is still a mystery how this can be done.
A jealous man in Russia with an ax cut off the hands of his wife. The 26-year-old suspect accused his wife of having had an affair, a spokesperson for the court told TASS news agency. She had applied for divorce.
Storm and snow have caused problems in large parts of France. Since Sunday, nearly 100,000 households have been without power as a result of severe weather, especially in the north of the country.
Iraqi forces have displaced terrorism Islamic State out of the country. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Saturday that the border with Syria is completely in the hands of the army again. With that, 'the liberation of all parts of the country' is a fact.
Researchers have exhibited an almost 4 million-year-old skeleton in South Africa. The special thing is that it is only complete after a few bones.
European trade unions are jointly taking action against the impending steel fusion of activities by ThyssenKrupp and Tata Steel.
In the north of Prague this weekend a footbridge in the Vltava river has disappeared. In addition, a man and a woman were seriously injured and two others light.
Israel has attacked an Iranian base under construction not far from the Syrian capital Damascus with fighter planes. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported this Saturday on the basis of pro-government media in Syria.
We have to do it with locally wet snow, but our southern neighbors have been made happy by Mother Nature with heavy snow showers in various parts of the country. As a result, there is a snow-white blanket over the landscape. View the photos and videos below.
The pharmaceutical company Johnson \u0026 amp; Johnson launches a large-scale test of an AIDS vaccine. The American company will vaccinate 2,600 women in southern Africa. A mix of two developed vaccines is used for this.
