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Cyprus: Tourists seek return of stolen urn with son’s ashes

8:01 pm December 28, 2019

Nicosia : A Swedish couple have appealed for information about a wooden urn containing the ashes of their deceased son, stolen while they were holidaying on Cyprus, police on the east Mediterranean island nation said Saturday. Police said the urn was inside one of three suitcases taken from the couple’s car within a 20-minute span […]

Norwegian author Ari Behn, former spouse of princess, commits suicide

4:32 pm December 26, 2019

Stockholm: Norwegian author Ari Behn, who was previously married to the country’s Princess Maertha Louise, died on Wednesday aged 47, his manager told news agency AFP, saying he had committed suicide. “It is with great sadness in our hearts that I on behalf of the very closest relatives of Ari Behn must announce that he […]

Wolf ‘snatches kangaroo’ in Belgium

12:47 am December 26, 2019

Brussels: A wolf is believed to have snatched a domesticated kangaroo in Belgium and wounded another in an overnight attack, a wolf expert told AFP on Wednesday. The missing marsupial is “probably dead”, eaten “as a Christmas meal” by the unidentified wild canine, the expert, Jan Loos, said, confirming information he had given to local […]

Heavy hearts as Notre-Dame misses Xmas mass for first time since 1803

12:46 pm December 25, 2019

Paris: Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was unable to hold Christmas Eve Mass for the first time in more than 200 years — after a fire ravaged its structure in April. With heavy hearts, French Catholics instead gathered at the nearby church of Saint-Germain l’Auxerrois, a few hundred metres away, for a service celebrated by the […]

German passengers hailed for stopping ‘horror’ tram

11:31 pm December 23, 2019

Frankfurt Am Main: German passengers were hailed for preventing a disaster at the weekend when they were able to bring a runaway tram to a halt after the driver lost consciousness. Two male passengers broke down the door to the driver’s cabin after the tram sped past eight stations without stopping in the western city […]