On 29 March 1974, 38-year-old Kukuczka, a firefighter, entered the Polish embassy on East Berlin’s Unter den Linden boulevard with a briefcase. The father of three said – falsely – that he was carrying a bomb. He demanded to be allowed to leave for West Berlin. Stasi officers gave him …

Georgia used to export second-hand US and European cars to its northern neighbour Russia, with whom it shares a border. But that has officially stopped as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In September 2023, the Georgian Revenue Service announced that, in line with the then latest …

In the past 24 hours, two soldiers have been brought in dead. What we see at the field unit points to the ferocity of the battle for Pokrovsk – an important transport hub. The rail link that passes through was used regularly to evacuate civilians from front-line towns to safer …

The images published by DeepState showed the dead Ukrainian troops stripped to their underwear and lying face down in what appeared to be farmland in Kursk. The BBC cannot indepenelty verify the images. The outlet said the drone operators had been overrun by a rapid Russian advance. “These actions must …

Columbus led an expedition backed by Spain’s Catholic Monarchs seeking to establish a new route to Asia – but instead he reached the Caribbean. His arrival there was the beginning of a period of European contact with the Americas, which would lead to conquest and settlement – and the deaths …

Viktoriia was moved, with another Ukrainian woman, but neither were included in the prisoner exchange. “That means she was taken somewhere else,” says Media Initiative director Tetyana Katrychenko. “They say to Lefortovo. Why there? We don’t know.” She says it’s not normal practice ahead of a swap. Lefortovo prison in …

While it talked tough on migrants from Middle Eastern and Asian countries, the Law and Justice-led government issued the highest number of annual residence and work permits in the whole of the EU during much of its time in office. Tusk’s coalition has continued the policy of pushbacks and re-introduced …

When two white vapour trails cross the sky near the front line in eastern Ukraine, it tends to mean one thing. Russian jets are about to attack. But what happened near the city of Kostyantynivka was unprecedented. The lower trail split in two, external and a new object quickly accelerated …

The north-western Spanish region of Galicia is on the shortlist. So too is the Balearic island of Mallorca, with the theory that Columbus was the illegitimate son of the prince of Viana, brother of King Ferdinand, who endorsed his breakthrough voyage. Another hypothesis proposes that Columbus was a Jew from …

One of the authors of the paper, published in the journal BMJ Case Reports on Thursday, told the PA news agency: “This report does not advocate against headspinning entirely.” “However, breakdancers who notice the early development of a breakdance bulge should consider reducing or avoiding headspins, as continuing may lead …

Storm Kirk has been affecting northern France and has flooded buildings used by politicians in Paris. Some parliamentarians took to social media to show the aftermath. What started out as Hurricane Kirk, over the Atlantic, was later downgraded to a tropical storm as it headed to Europe. It has also …

Viktoriia Roshchyna had been briefly detained in the occupied eastern city of Berdyansk in 2022 but she disappeared in the occupied east in August 2023 and it was not until last spring that Russian authorities confirmed she was being held. Ukrainian intelligence officials said she was supposed to have been …

Storm Kirk has been affecting northern France and has flooded buildings used by politicians in Paris. Some Parliamentarians took to social media to show the aftermath. What started out as Hurricane Kirk, over the Atlantic, was later downgraded to a tropical storm as it headed to Europe. It has also …

It is the result of a compromise between Montenegro’s Democratic Alliance-led government and the Socialist Party (PS), who originally came up with the proposal earlier this year. In recent years, foreigners have flocked to Portugal, lured by its affordable rents, mild weather and natural beauty. In the capital Lisbon and …

Russia’s overnight attacks on Ukraine also left several people wounded in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia. Meanwhile, Ukrainian drones targeted a military airfield in the Maikop region of southern Russia. Local officials evacuated 40 people from a nearby village. Russia’s missile strike on the Odesa region hit a Panamanian-registered ship …

Flight TK204 took off from Seattle shortly after 19:00 on Tuesday evening. The pilot appears to have got into trouble over the Canadian territory of Nunavut, before his colleagues took over and headed for John F Kennedy airport. Pehlivan had flown with Turkish Airlines since 2007 and had been given …

He was questioned as a witness, by the judge, the prosecutor and defence lawyers for the familes of the dead and wounded. He also answered questions from the mother of a murdered child. Parents of the murdered children attended the hearing in the hope of shedding light on the motive …

Once a curator spotted that the artwork was missing, staff were tasked with searching for it, the museum said on its website., external Eventually it was discovered in a bin bag and “miraculously, both cans were found intact”, it said. The cans were cleaned and placed at the museum’s entrance. …

According to prosecutors, a member of the DZ Mafia, who is currently in prison, hired the boy for €2,000 ($2,192; £1,676) to “intimidate” a competitor by setting fire to his door. The teenager was spotted and searched by rivals from the Blacks gang, who then stabbed him and set him …

Hubbard, a native of Michigan, pleaded guilty to the charges last week, according to Russian state media. However, his sister Patricia Fox told Reuters that Hubbard held pro-Russian views and was unlikely to have taken up arms at his age. “He is so non-military,” Ms Fox told Reuters, adding that …