Science & Environment
78 dead, 500 hurt by storms in eastern China
Hurricane-force winds, freak hailstorms, pounding rain and a tornado killed 78 people in China\'s eastern province of Jiangsu on Thursday and injured ...Solar plane lands in Spain after three-day Atlantic crossing
An airplane powered solely by the sun landed safely in Seville in Spain early on Thursday after an almost three-day flight across ...North Korea fires missile but appears to have failed: South Korea
North Korea fired one missile from its east coast just before 6 a.m. on Wednesday (2100 GMT Tuesday) but it appears to ...3 International Space Station astronauts land in Kazakhstan
An International Space Station crew including an American, a Briton and a Russian landed safely Saturday in the sun-drenched steppes of Kazakhstan.Artists, scientists urge North America to save Monarch butterfly
Some 200 intellectuals, scientists and artists from around the world urged the leaders of Mexico, the United States and Canada on Wednesday ...Paris museums shut as swollen Seine reaches peak
Paris\' world-famous Louvre and Musee d\'Orsay museums shut on Friday to rush valuable artworks out of their basements, as the rain-swollen River ...Thousands evacuated as France declares flood emergency
Torrential rain forced thousands of people from their homes just south of Paris while the River Seine surged to its highest level ...Four people killed in flooding and storms in southwestern Germany
Three people have been killed in floods in the southwestern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg and a young girl was killed by a ...Nepal honors 9 Sherpas who paved way for Everest climbers
Nepal celebrated Everest Day on Sunday by honoring nine Sherpa guides who fixed ropes and dug the route to the summit so ...Volcano erupts in western Indonesia, killing seven
The death toll in the eruption of a volcano in western Indonesia rose to seven on Sunday, with two other people in ...




