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The floods that hit this week, the US city of Houston taken at least nine lives. More than a thousand homes were damaged by the rising waters, authorities said Wednesday.

The Canadian government will introduce legislation to get marijuana from the criminal sphere and regulate recreational use. That the Minister of Health John Philpott announced Wednesday at a UN meeting in New York on drugs. The new law should enter into force in the spring of 2017.

The Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, one of the best paid in the world and stopped in 2011 because he was the art world, is back. The Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan will put his latest work in May: a solid, 18-carat gold toilet for an original design manufacturer Kohler toilet.

The popular chat app Snapchat Wednesday came into disrepute because of a new filter. The filter is made in honor of 4/20 (April 20 in the American date format), the day when the use of cannabis is celebrated, and allows for a selfie to turn into a Bob Marley variant.

A court in Turkey has sentenced a teacher to a prison term of 508 years and three months because he had abused ten boys between 12 and 14 years. That Turkish media reported Wednesday.

A majority of the Russian population gradually takes to bury a good plan Lenin. According to research by the VTsIOM public has almost sixty percent of respondents expressed that.

One in the US may be paid frozen Iranian funds converted from EUR 1.75 billion to the families of a major attack in Beirut in 1983. The US Supreme Court rejected Tuesday an appeal by the Iranian central bank would keep the benefit.

At Sotheby's in New York auctioned a rare sculpture of Auguste Rodin on 9 May. It is a marble version of L'Eternel Printemps, representing two lovers in an embrace.

Police have a 27 year old man from Limburg Susteren arrested on suspicion of involvement in a shooting incident in early March in Ohe en Laak. Thereby hit a 57-year-old man from Stevensweert seriously injured.

The PKK did a few months ago to agree a cease-fire, but the Turkish government rejected the proposal down to do so. At least, the leader of the pro-Kurdish opposition party HDP Wednesday.

US President Barack Obama Wednesday to visit the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud and other Arab leaders in the region in the Saudi capital Riyadh arrived.

The way the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik is treated in prison, contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights. This has given a Norwegian court Wednesday.

Profound disagreements characterize the relationship between NATO and Russia. That said NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday in Brussels after the first NATO-Russia Council in two years. The military alliance explained the political dialogue in June 2014 silent after the Russian annexation of the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.

Twelve EU Member States have not yet contributed to the fund set up to improve the situation and refugees in Turkish camps. Said Wednesday an initial assessment of the progress of the migration pact that the EU concluded with Turkey to the migration issue to cope.

A note writing of the late Freddie Mercury, lead singer of British rock band Queen, will soon be auctioned in London. The notebook stand include handwritten lyrics for songs like Too Much Love Will Kill You and The Show Must Go On.

At the fair in Frankfurt was the price of Volkswagen today on the rise because of the hope that the troubled German car group can reach a settlement in the US about the shoddy diesel engines.

A 25-year-old Indian woman has scrapped her groom-to-be because he had built no toilet in his house. The woman almost immediately accepted the offer of another man, who has a toilet in his house.

Parties in the Syrian civil war have agreed that 250 people may leave places in the northwest of the country that are long siege by rebels. Secondly, the government forces may place leaving the same number of people who besiege not far from the border with Lebanon, northwest of the capital Damascus.

Visa-free travel to Europe for the 45 million Ukrainians is a step closer. The European Commission proposed on Wednesday that the time is right. EU Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos (Migration) hopes that Member States and the European Parliament approve the proposal quickly.

The German Customs has intercepted nearly 2.5 million illegal cigarettes were destined for the Dutch market. On the cigarette excise was not paid. The Treasury would be lost 370,000 euros. A 47-year-old German was arrested. Justice is still looking for the manufacturer of the cigarettes and to potential buyers.

In a bloody attack Tuesday in the Afghan capital Kabul, more than sixty people have been killed and nearly 350 injured. Most victims are civilians, reported the Afghan authorities Wednesday.

An Australian TV crew that was arrested in Lebanon for cooperation to abduct a child, is released after an agreement with the father. That Australian media reported Wednesday.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday all states that do not accept the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) called upon to do so. The Secretary-General made this plea at the celebration of the seventy anniversary of the Court in the Peace Palace in The Hague. This also were King Willem-Alexander and Foreign Minister Bert Koenders present.

The court, which monitors the constitution in Germany, has spoken out against parts of legislation Wednesday that investigators have more powers to combat terrorism. Part of this is the use of so-called 'Bundestrojaner', specially developed software to spy on computers of suspects.

A German woman found a bottle with a ticket to 108 years, four months and eighteen days ago was thrown by a British marine biologist in the North Sea. As far as known per bottle has a message, there has never been done about long in order to be found.

Off the coast of the South American Ecuador on Wednesday again an earthquake.

The Philip flippers duck were all frozen in the severe cold in Wisconsin. Fortunately for Philip Vicki Rabe Harrison, the new boss of the duck, new flippers be printed for him and can finally walk again the duck.

With a fictional terrorist attack on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning held a major exercise in the Paris Montparnasse train station by police and security forces. French media reported Wednesday that no previous exercise was held in combating terrorism on such a large scale in the center of Paris.

A brain-dead woman is 55 days kept alive to give birth. The Polish woman family wanted at all costs to save the baby. That plan worked: the baby, a boy, it makes for good conditions.

A British teenager who stabbed a man who had abused her as a child goes free with a particularly empathetic judge. The now 15-year-old girl does Judge Jonathan Durham Hall out of the cell.