Around 4 million kilograms of potatoes, neatly sorted and stored in a cool, dry place — in perfect condition for consumption, and yet threatened with destruction. A farm in Saxony, Germany, ended up stuck with a harvest of potatoes that had been ordered by a trader.
Meet Veronika. The 13-year-old Swiss Brown cow lives in the village of Nötsch at the foot of the Carinthian Mountains in southern Austria. She's kept as a pet by a local farmer, and can roam her meadow to her heart's delight. Like many other pets, she likes to have her back scratched.
On average, the cartoons published on the Instagram account of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo get a few hundred reactions, but a recent drawing by cartoonist Eric Salch has prompted more than 15,000 social media users to express their dismay.
Just as human history is often divided into the eras B.C. and A.D., it's not unreasonable to imagine the Internet's story split between B.W. and A.W. — the "W" denoting Wikipedia.
The women escorting each country's athletes during the Parade of Nations wore floor-length puffy coats and oversized sunglasses, in the dark of night. Sarah Stier/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Sarah Stier/Getty Images MILAN — Fireworks. Mariah Carey. A dancing stovetop espresso maker.
The United States' ambassador to Poland, Tom Rose, said he was cutting all contact with Wlodzimierz Czarzasty, the speaker of the country's lower house of parliament, known as the Sejm. Rose accused Czarzasty of making "outrageous and unprovoked insults directed against [US President Donald Trump]."
Berlin Brandenburg Airport said Friday it is suspending flight operations in the morning due to poor weather conditions. "Due to weather conditions, no take-offs or landings are currently possible," the airport said in a statement on its website. The airport already saw numerous cancelations on Thursday due to freezing rain.
Former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjorn Jagland is under police investigation on "suspicion of aggravated corruption" over his alleged links to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, police said on Thursday.
Following a nationwide power outage over the weekend and a Russian drone and missile strike on Kyiv on Tuesday night, 1,170 apartment blocks in the Ukrainian capital are currently without heat. At the same time, outside temperatures have dropped to below minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit).
Parts of southern Spain and Portugal were facing severe disruption on Thursday due to torrential rainfall, floods and landslides brought by Storm Leonardo. Leonardo is the seventh storm to hit the Iberian Peninsula this year. Last week, five people died, hundreds were injured and tens of thousands were left without electricity in Portugal.
It is 3:40 p.m. on October 6, 2025. A judge at the Court of Appeal in the Albanian capital, Tirana, is reading out a verdict. Seconds later, three shots ring out in the courtroom, hitting the judge at the bench and sending people fleeing in panic. Astrit Kalaja, 62, later succumbs to his injuries.
Russia's Foreign Ministry on Thursday said that it had summoned the German Ambassador's representative to inform them that it had declared a staff member at the German Embassy persona non grata.