Science & Environment
Floods in southern Africa kill 115
At least 115 people were killed in Mozambique, Malawi and South Africa after heavy rains affected 843,000 people across southeast Africa, officials ...UN environment talks open under shadow of Ethiopian plane crash
An assembly of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) opened in Nairobi under a dark cloud cast by the plane crash that killed ...North Korea rebuilds part of missile site as Bolton warns of more sanctions
North Korea has restored part of a rocket test site it began to dismantle after pledging to do so in a first ...Tornado kills at least 23 in US state of Alabama
A tornado tore through the southern US state of Alabama on Sunday, killing 23 people, uprooting trees and causing "catastrophic" damage to ...Six killed in Madagascar lightning strike
Six people from the same family were "killed on the spot" by a lightning strike in Madagascar over the weekend while sheltering ...Total lunar eclipse woos sky watchers
An unusual set of celestial circumstances came together over Sunday night and the wee hours of Monday for sky watchers in Europe, ...Indonesian rescuers use drones, sniffer dogs as tsunami death toll tops 400
Indonesian rescuers on Tuesday used drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors along the devastated west coast of Java hit by ...Death toll climbs to 222 in Indonesia tsunami
A tsunami killed at least 222 people and injured hundreds on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra following an underwater landslide ...MBS mingles with G20 leaders as Trump fuels summit tensions
Fissures on trade, climate change and Ukraine divided world leaders Friday as US President Donald Trump came under sustained fire and Saudi ...Fears grow that more than 1,000 still missing in Indonesia disaster
More than a thousand people could still be missing after Indonesia\'s devastating quake-tsunami, officials said Friday, drastically upping the number of people ...




