Science & Environment
Earthquake rescue efforts underway as death toll rises in Myanmar and Thailand
By Hla-Hla Htay and Sebastien Berger, with Thanaporn Promyamyai in Bangkok AFP The death toll from a huge earthquake that hit Myanmar ...Scores dead, many missing as strong earthquakes rock Myanmar, Thailand
BY DAVID RISING and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI AP A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, destroying buildings, a bridge and a dam. ...Powerful earthquakes rock Thailand and Myanmar, triggering the collapse of a Bangkok high-rise
BY DAVID RISING and JINTAMAS SAKSORNCHAI AP A high-rise building under construction in Bangkok collapsed after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake rocked Thailand ...South Korean wildfires spread, three more disaster zones named
Deadly wildfires spread further across South Korea on Monday as authorities designated three more counties ‘special disaster zones’. At least four people ...NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return to Earth after 9 months stuck in ...
BY MARCIA DUNN AP Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, hitching a different ...US astronauts stranded on ISS for nine months to return to Earth on Tuesday, Nasa ...
A pair of US astronauts stuck for more than nine months on the International Space Station will be returned to Earth on ...Dozens dead as tornadoes rip through central and southern US
At least 33 people have been killed and dozens more injured when tornadoes and violent storms raked across the central United States, as ...Thousands of Australians without power as storm Alfred lashes Queensland
Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia’s Queensland state were without power on Sunday after Alfred, a downgraded tropical cyclone, brought damaging ...Chile power outage plunges capital into darkness, hits major copper mines
By Fabian Cambero and Alexander Villegas Reuters A massive power outage across Chile plunged the country’s capital Santiago into darkness on Tuesday ...North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vows to further develop nuclear forces
By HYUNG-JIN KIM AP North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said an elevated U.S. security partnership with South Korea and Japan poses ...