Russian President Vladimir Putin officially confirmed for the first time on Sunday that the now deceased Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny should be replaced.
According to a media report, a hundred people were present at the secret meeting of the Defense Committee, from which information about the Taurus cruise missile was made public.
As spring arrives in the northern hemisphere of the world and the first sun seekers are already on the beaches in particularly warm regions, headlines are branding Florida as the world's shark attack hotspot.
The storm surge season so far has caused significant damage on some North Sea islands - not only to protective dunes that serve to protect the coast, but also to some beaches.
The Berlin Zoo's only panda pair in Germany is apparently about to mate again: "We can confirm that there are signs of 'panda love'," a zoo spokeswoman told the German Press Agency.