Science & Environment
Super Typhoon Yagi hits Vietnam after casualties in China’s Hainan
By Minh Nguyen and Thinh Nguyen Reuters Super Typhoon Yagi, Asia’s most powerful storm this year, made landfall in northern Vietnam on ...Oil power UAE completes Arab world’s first nuclear plant
The oil-rich United Arab Emirates on Thursday announced the completion of the Arab world’s first nuclear power plant, calling it a “significant ...Shanshan, downgraded from typhoon, leaves 7 dead, damage in Japan
Tropical cyclone Shanshan, downgraded from a typhoon, left seven people dead and widespread damage as it churned off the Pacific coast of ...Sudan’s rains spread wartime suffering across the country
By Eltayeb Siddig Reuters Since floods swept away their home in eastern Sudan, Ahmed Hadab and his family have survived by drinking ...Iceland volcano erupts, spewing lava fountains
A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted on Thursday, the meteorological office said, spraying red-hot lava and smoke in its sixth outbreak since ...Death toll from Uganda garbage landslide climbs to 35
The number of people killed when a mountain of garbage collapsed in Uganda’s capital last week has risen to 35, 12 of ...Ships capsize off Taiwan and Philippines as Typhoon Gaemi strikes
By Jim Gomez Joeal Calupitan and Ken Moritsugu Associated Press Taiwan has seen flooding in low-lying areas, along with landslides and damage ...Global cyber outage grounds flights, hits media, financial, telecoms
BY CHARLOTTE GRAHAM-McLAY and ELAINE KURTENBACH AP A widespread Microsoft outage was disrupting flights, banks, media outlets and companies around the world ...Hurricane Beryl, churning toward Jamaica, threatens Haiti and Dominican Republic
By Maria Cardona and Harold Isaac Reuters Hurricane Beryl barreled toward Jamaica as a powerful Category 4 storm on Tuesday, threatening to ...Beryl, earliest Category 4 hurricane on record, brings perilous winds to Caribbean
The “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm Hurricane Beryl barrelled across the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday night toward the Caribbean’s Windward Islands, where it is ...