44 percent Algerians seeking asylum in the Netherlands are suspected of committing a crime last year, according to a report published yesterday by the research institute of the Ministry of Justice and Security (WODC).more

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday rejected an appeal by a North Carolina school that required students to wear only skirts. Thus, previous court decisions, which found that mandatory skirts violate the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ensuring equality before the law, remain in force.more

Italy is catching up with Japan in the ranking of the world's oldest nations, according to data from the national statistical institute (Istat). The latest report notes three phenomena: a decline in fertility, an increase in the average age of residents and further aging of the population.more

An invasion of mosquito-borne tropical diseases is progressing in Europe, the latest ECDC report warns. The reasons are climate change, longer and warmer summers and floods.more

A history and philosophy teacher who has been employed at a secondary school in Italy for 24 years has been absent almost constantly for two decades. She was dismissed by the Ministry of Education, and this decision was upheld by the Supreme Court after a long court battle, declaring her "permanent and absolute inability" to fulfill this role.more

Illegal passengers from Syria who terrorized the crew of a Portuguese-flagged ship may have been linked to a criminal group. The unit, which was freed from the threat by the Portuguese special forces, heads to Poland.more

The 27-year-old passenger stripped naked on board the flight to Sofia shortly before departure from Munich; she screamed loudly and bit an intervening policeman. As a result, the flight was delayed for three and a half hours, and the woman was taken to a psychiatric hospital.more

It's time to consider ending tours to the wreck of the Titanic as "there's not much to learn anymore," Charles Haas, president of the International Titanic Association (TIS), was quoted as saying by Sky News.more

Sexually transmitted diseases are on the rise in the Netherlands, reports the sexual health center GGD. Last year, infections with diseases such as gonorrhea and syphilis were the highest since 2014. In 2022, as many as 41,250 infections were diagnosed.more

Twitter has agreed to abide by tough new EU rules to combat disinformation, Russian propaganda and online crime after a team of European Commission officials entered the platform's headquarters to conduct an inspection.more

Puffy and reddened eyes, hunched back, raised shoulders, overweight and clawed hands - this is how, according to experts, in 70 years the victims of the currently extremely popular remote work will look like.more

Support for the far-right AfD party continues to rise in the polls. In the recently published ARD DeutschlandTrend survey, it scored 19 percent and pushed Chancellor Scholz's SPD party to third place. This is the highest result recorded so far for this party in an ARD TV poll. The Christian Democrats can count on by far the greatest support.more

The rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin's mercenary Wagner Group is the biggest challenge facing the Russian state in recent times, and the loyalty of Russia's security forces will be crucial to the course of the crisis, the British Ministry of Defense estimates. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin left Moscow for the north of Russia.more

Equipped with diplomatic immunity, dressed in a scruffy track suit and down jacket, a Russian man is blocking the recovery of a plot of land 400 meters from the Australian parliament, reports the Australian news.com.au portal.more

Scientists have no doubt - droughts will haunt us more and more often; on Earth, there is and will be less water, including drinking water. It's up to us how and if we deal with this problem at all.more

OceanGate's CEO has repeatedly dismissed warnings about the risks of using the Titan submarine, according to the BBC. "In the race to the Titanic, you repeat the famous slogan, he is unsinkable," a former consultant to the company wrote in one of the e-mails to its boss Stockton Rush.more

In many places in Sardinia, bans and limits on the number of people present on the beaches have been introduced. For some, leisure becomes an almost exclusive experience. Strict regulations are aimed at stopping the mass influx of tourists, as well as protecting the natural environment.more

In 2022, in French towns, up to 20,000 inhabitants, a total of over 32 thousand. cases of physical violence in a public place, or 38 percent. more than in 2016, reported the daily Le Figaro.more

A charge of murder of a 27-year-old Polish woman was filed yesterday afternoon against a 32-year-old man from Bangladesh. His Pakistani roommate "helped a lot with the police investigation," said Greek police spokeswoman Constantia Dimoglidou.more

Preliminary findings show that the actions of the Dutch policemen contributed to the death of a Pole, Mateusz R., informed the spokesman of the prosecutor's office in Rotterdam. A 32-year-old man died in the hospital where he was taken after being arrested by police officers who used a taser on the Pole.more

Yesterday, it was officially confirmed that the passengers of the submarine Titan, on which they set off on a commercial expedition to the wreck of the Titanic, are dead. They all died in the implosion. The wreckage of the boat was found yesterday.more

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The Ministry of the Interior (FOD Binnenlandse Zaken) has launched a special alert subpage on the government website www.1722.be where you can report nuisances related to wasps, informs the VRT Nws portal. It was created due to the fact that, according to the portal, the emergency number 112 was too overloaded with complaints about wasps.more

Two Pakistani men were sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for the rape of an 18-year-old British tourist in July 2022 near the city of Rethymno on the Greek island of Crete, Protothema reported yesterday evening.more

The main suspect in the death of a 27-year-old Polish woman in Kos, a 32-year-old man from Bangladesh, was sent to detention on Wednesday after several hours of questioning in court accompanied by a lawyer. He pleads not guilty to the charges against him.more