News in Briefs | Issue 26

Posted 1:05pm Sunday 4th October 2015

World Watch Dusseldorf, Germany Police say a woman who disappeared in 1984, sparking a murder hunt, has been found alive and well in Dusseldorf. Petra Pazsitka, then 24, was declared dead five years after she went missing from her student accommodation. When police investigating a robbery came Read more...

News in Briefs | Issue 25

Posted 11:57am Sunday 27th September 2015

World Watch Frankfurt, Germany  Construction work has unearthed the skeletons of 200 French soldiers from the army of Napoleon Bonaparte. The soldiers are believed to be from Napoleon’s Grand Army retreating from Russia in 1813. They probably died from battle wounds or typhus. More Read more...

News in Briefs | Issue 24

Posted 12:50pm Sunday 20th September 2015

World Watch Tokyo, Japan An endangered lemur is being sent from Japan to the Channel Islands in the hope that she will find a mate. Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo is sending Ala, a female aye-aye lemur, on an “extended romantic vacation” to the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust. Zoologists Read more...

News in Briefs | Issue 23

Posted 11:29am Sunday 13th September 2015

World Watch Adygea, Russia A special police unit has been set up in southern Russia to ensure security at weddings. The 40-strong detail will patrol the area making sure that wedding motorcades observe the highway code and nobody fires weapons from car windows. The people of Adygea have a Read more...

News in Briefs | Issue 22

Posted 11:52am Sunday 6th September 2015

World Watch Yamalo-Nenets, Russia Residents of a remote region in Siberia are to be given rubber bullets to help them ward off polar bears. Polar bears are a common threat in the area and residents of one town have been trying to ward off one particularly obnoxious polar bear for more than a Read more...

News in Briefs | Issue 20

Posted 12:02pm Sunday 16th August 2015

World Watch Reykjavik, Iceland One of the central streets in Iceland’s capital city has been painted in rainbow colours as part of the city’s annual Gay Pride festival. Dozens of people arrived to help transform the road, including the city’s mayor, Dagur Eggertsson. Reykjavik Read more...

News in Briefs | Issue 19

Posted 11:29am Sunday 9th August 2015

World Watch Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam The authorities in Vietnam’s largest city have banned pets from its first pedestrian street. Nguyen Hue, a broad pedestrianised zone in central Ho Chi Minh City, opened to much fanfare at the end of April. But the local government has now issued a list Read more...

News in Briefs | Issue 18

Posted 11:47am Sunday 2nd August 2015

World Watch Transylvania, Romania A music festival is taking inspiration from the world’s most famous vampire and offering free or discounted tickets to people who give blood. The Untold festival takes place at the end of July, and organisers are hoping their “pay with blood” Read more...

News in Briefs | Issue 17

Posted 12:09pm Sunday 26th July 2015

World Watch Italy Italy’s farm animals are being given showers, fans and air conditioning in their stalls to try to keep them cool during the current heatwave there. Temperatures in Italy have reached up to 40°C and this has caused a fall in production on the country’s Read more...

News in Briefs | Issue 16

Posted 11:32am Sunday 19th July 2015

World Watch Denmark Archaeologists are mystified after finding nearly 2000 tiny golden spirals in a field in eastern Denmark. The coils date from between 900BC and 700BC, but the archaeologists are not quite sure what they have found.  Florida, United States A man convicted of having Read more...