Image shows Austria's Minister of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology Leonore Gewessler, 45, holding a public transport ticket, undated photo. The country offered free public transport for a year to people willing to get a tattoo reading 'Klimaticket'. (Ministry of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology/Newsflash)

Festival Guests In Austria Offered Free Public Transport For A Year If They Get A Tattoo

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:August 30, 2023

Authorities in Austria have faced sharp criticism after offering festivalgoers a free nationwide public transport ticket in exchange for a tattoo. Austrian officials reportedly placed pop-up tattoo shops at the…

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Image shows tourists at the Lake Brienz in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland, undated photo. The place has been overflown with visitors because of the South Korean TV series 'Crash Landing on You' on Netflix. (Postauto/Newsflash)

Authorities Charge Tourists GBP 4.50 For Selfies At Lake Spot Featured In Korean Netflix Show

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:May 4, 2023

The Swiss authorities have begun charging tourists to take selfies at an idyllic lake beauty spot featured in a popular South Korean Netflix show after thousands of people started visiting…

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Image shows the runaway wallaby, undated photo. It was spotted in the town of Alberndorf im Pulkautal, in the district of Hollabrunn in Lower Austria State, Austria. (Newsflash)

Wallaby On The Loose Hops It When Austrian Firefighters Try To Catch It

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:April 27, 2023

A wallaby on the loose that has troubled authorities in Austria for more than a week has again escaped fire department crews when they tried to catch it. The marsupial…

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The victim Emilia, aged 4, poses in undated photo. She died while being treated in a dental clinic in Kronberg im Taunus, Hesse State, Germany. (Newsflash)

Anesthesiologist Suspected Of Causing Death Of Four-Year-Old Girl Who Turned Up For Dental Work

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:April 11, 2023

An anesthesiologist is facing possible manslaughter charges after a young girl turned up with a broken tooth and later died, with several other kids also taken ill. German authorities opened…

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Picture shows traveler Fedor Konyukhov (right) and president of the Russian Ballooning Federation Ivan Menyailo (left) near landed air expedition balloon at Khatanga Airport, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia on Sunday, Mar. 26. 2023. Russian travelers broke world record for longest flight on their hot air balloon. ( @FKonyukhov/Newsflash)

Russians Fly Over Arctic In Balloon And Claim Longest Flight World Record

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:April 3, 2023

Two Russians have flown over the Arctic in a hot air balloon and claim to have broken the world record for the longest non-stop flight distance in a thermal balloon.…

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Picture shows Hitler, Gring, Goebbels and Rudolf Hess during a military parade in 1933. Nine Belgian residents who are reportedly convicted of their collaboration with the Nazi regime, still receive a pension for their services in the Third Reich. (Newsflash)

Belgians Who Collaborated With Hitler Still Get Pension From Germany For Services To Reich

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:April 2, 2023

Nine Belgian citizens who collaborated with the Nazis still get their pension from Germany for "services to the Third Reich". The nine citizens, who are convicted of collaborating with the…

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Conservation officers hug a bear cub during a research project in Northern New Mexico, USA, undated. An ad hiring professional bear huggers was posted advertising the job of conservation officer for the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, in March, 2023. (@nmdgf/Newsflash)

USA Wildlife Conservationists Looking For Professional Bear Hugger

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:March 25, 2023

Wildlife conservation authorities in the USA are looking for a professional bear hugger. The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish (NMDGF) offered interested candidates "the experience of a lifetime"…

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Photo shows an artifact that is believed to have been stolen during the pillaging of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad in 2003 and returned to Iraq by FBI, undated. Archaeologists believe the artifact, which stands only 2 1/4 inches tall and 1 1/2 inches wide, dates back 2,700 years. (FBI/Newsflash)

Looted 7th Century BC Artefact Returned To Iraq After Adorning US Museum For 17 Years

• Post author:Georgina Jedikovska
• Post published:March 22, 2023

US authorities have repatriated a 2,700-year-old artefact stolen from a museum in Iraq 20 years ago. The Iron Age artefact, named 'Furniture Fitting with Sphinx Trampling a Youth', was reportedly…

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Image shows the ChipMixer darknet cryptocurrency anonymizing service, undated photo. It was seized by U.S. and German authorities on Wednesday, Mar. 15, 2023. (BKA/Newsflash)

US And German Authorities Shut Down World’s Largest Darknet Money Laundering Platform And Seize EUR 44m In Crypto

• Post author:Joseph Golder
• Post published:March 22, 2023

The US and German authorities have shut down the world's largest darknet money-laundering platform and seized over EUR 44 million in Bitcoin. They have also reportedly seized nearly seven terabytes…

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Picture shows the house of serial killer Marc Dutroux being demolished in Sars-la-Buissiere, belgium, on Monday, March 13, 2023. On Aug. 17, 1996, the bodies of Julie Lejeune, 8, and Melissa Russo, 8, were found in the garden of the house. (Newsflash)

Second Home Of Serial Killer Marc Dutroux Demolished

• Post author:William McGee
• Post published:March 19, 2023

Authorities in Belgium have begun demolishing another home of notorious serial killer Marc Dutroux, who kidnapped and murdered several young girls in the 1990s. Evil Dutroux was arrested in 1996…

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