Mr Forrest, 30, and Miss Stammers, 15, ran away to France on Sept 20 after boarding a ferry to Calais and taking a train from Paris to Bordeaux. They spent their first night in the Hotel Choiseul, a two-star hotel in the city centre but on Monday it became clear that they spent the next six nights – from Saturday to last Friday – in an even cheaper one in the same road, the Huguerie Hotel with rooms at €32 (£23). Read article
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European cities have become the target for anti-U.S. protests. Police in Antwerp in the north of Belgium sealed off an area after a group of around 200 young Muslims took to the streets. Some of the protesters carried black flags often associated with Salafi radical Islam. Their chants included, ‘Obama go to hell’. Police used […]
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It’s Tuesday morning in Arizona, and Jason and Michael Schoenfeld are planning an unexpected trip to the airport. Their uncle, Carl Robinson, was killed in by a runaway electric lorry in Copenhagen on August 29, and, to the family’s surprise, his body was expected to arrive in Arizona later that day. They only got confirmation […]
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Tourexpi.com reported that Special agents of Israel’s MOSSAD and the Bulgarian State Agency for National Security, DANS, are monitoring closely and providing security for synagogues and hotels with Israeli tourists in Bulgaria. The information is reported Friday by the Bulgarian Standard daily, citing as reason the high number of Israeli citizens expected to travel abroad […]
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Six supermarkets are targets of attacks with explosives in Corsica AFP reported Six supermarkets were the targets of attacks with explosives in the early hours of Sunday, the French island of Corsica, a source close to the police investigation. Leclerc Four establishments were attacked in Ajaccio, Bastia, Saint-Florent and Alistro (Corsica). The Géant Casino and […]
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The hunt for Patricia Wilson, 58, whose isolated stone cottage stands near the village of Vabre-Tizac in the Aveyron, came as prosecutors revealed that the body of the French gardener facing charges for her murder was covered with deep scratch marks. In more damning evidence against Jean-Louis Cayrou, 50, prosecutors also revealed that a blood-stained […]
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Lufthansa cabin staff will strike throughout Germany on Friday, upping the stakes in a battle over pay and conditions that threatens to drag on for weeks and cost Germany’s biggest airline tens of millions of euros. Airline’s flight attendants walked off the job at Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin airports Tuesday, forcing Lufthansa to cancel hundreds […]
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An elderly man has died in Greece in what officials believe to be the country’s first case of dengue fever since the 1920s. The man, in his 80s, died in hospital on 30 August after contracting fever in the western village of Agrinio. Read article
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Cabin staff at German airline Lufthansa will begin their strike action on Friday, the workers’ union has said. The UFO union did not say where the strikes would take place, but said it would give six hours’ notice. Read article
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You know how every once in a while you hear your phone’s voicemail greeting and think, “That’s weird that someone with a dumb voice that I hate hacked into my phone and re-recorded my voicemail greeting,” before realizing that’s how you sound to the world? Last weekend a tourist in Iceland spent her Saturday helping […]
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