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The accident occurred late in the evening in Berne in the Wesermarsch district when an 81-year-old driver overtook a truck and overlooked an oncoming car.
An 81-year-old was fatally injured in an overtaking maneuver in Berne (Wesermarsch district). The driver overlooked a car in oncoming traffic while overtaking a truck late in the evening, the police said. He collided head-on with a 32-year-old's car.
The older driver was so seriously injured that he died at the scene of the accident. His 80-year-old passenger and the 32-year-old driver of the other car were taken to hospital with serious injuries.
The trial begins at the Aschaffenburg regional court against a 23-year-old sex offender from Lower Saxony who is accused of sexually abusing two boys aged eleven and twelve while on prison leave. The public prosecutor's office accuses him of serious sexual abuse, child pornography, rape and bodily harm and is applying for preventive detention.
Los Angeles prosecutors have filed charges against a married couple for child abuse in a surrogacy scandal. The 66-year-old man and his 39-year-old wife were arrested at their villa in Arcadia. According to investigations, at least 14 children, including babies, were brought up extremely strictly and punished with beatings. Surveillance cameras recorded the abuse, including footage of nannies beating the children with sticks and a shoe. The case came to light in 2025 after an infant was brought to the hospital with a head injury.
In an accident in Moers (Wesel district), a 20-year-old motorcyclist was critically injured after a 23-year-old driver collided with him while turning. The motorcyclist was taken to a clinic by rescue helicopter, but the driver was uninjured. The investigation into the cause of the accident is ongoing.

Christa Pike, a US death row inmate, survived a lethal injection attempt in Tennessee and is now conscious, according to her legal team. She suffered severe damage to her arms and remains handcuffed in the hospital. Her lawyers are calling for her death sentence to be commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole and see the case as part of the national debate about the reliability of executions in the United States.
Christas Pike, sentenced to death for murder in 1996, survived an execution attempt in Tennessee and is now conscious and able to speak, according to her lawyers. She remains in intensive care, with her recovery described as medically unprecedented, although her chances of survival remain unclear.

After her failed execution by pentobarbital injection, Christa Pike is conscious and speaking again. She is currently receiving intensive care under police supervision at a hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. Their lawyers accuse the authorities of using outdated poison.