Science & Environment
Philippine death toll tops 140 as typhoon heads towards Vietnam
By Faith Brown, Cecil Morella AFP Typhoon Kalmaegi killed at least 140 people and left another 127 missing after unleashing devastating flooding ...Afghanistan hit by deadly magnitude 6.3 earthquake
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Angela Christy M Reuters A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early ...Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Cuba after hitting Jamaica with historic force
Hurricane Melissa made landfall in eastern Cuba near the city of Chivirico early Wednesday as a Category 3 storm after pummeling Jamaica as one ...Jamaica braces as rapidly intensifying Hurricane Melissa creeps toward island
By Ricardo MAKYN AFP Hurricane Melissa was cutting a deadly path through the Caribbean on Sunday, strengthening into a Category 3 storm ...Fortnite, Snapchat among major apps to go dark in global AWS outage
Amazon’s cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world and ...Surging Nile waters inundate Egypt and Sudan, revive row over Ethiopian mega-dam
By Dina Sakr and Mohamed Ezz CAIRO (Reuters) -Rising Nile waters inundated homes and fields in northern Egypt over the weekend, forcing ...At least 50 bodies recovered after Indonesian school collapse, 13 remain missing
The death toll from the collapse of a school in Indonesia last week has climbed to at least 50 people as rescuers ...Typhoon Bualoi death toll in Vietnam tops 50
The death toll from Typhoon Bualoi in Vietnam rose above 50, the government said Friday, with more than a dozen people still ...Death toll in Philippines earthquake rises, scores injured
BY JOEAL CALUPITAN and AARON FAVILA AP Rescuers used backhoes and sniffer dogs to look for survivors in collapsed houses and other ...Taiwan rescuers battle thick mud to look for missing from Super Typhoon Ragasa
By Joseph Campbell, Fabian Hamacher and Ann Wang Reuters Rescue workers in Taiwan battled through thick mud on Friday, looking for 11 ...














