Science & Environment
More than 2,000 feared dead in landslide in Afghanistan
Officials in Afghanistan have said that at least 2,000 people are feared dead after a mountainside collapsed causing a massive landslide in ...Hundreds killed, thousands missing in Afghan landslide
At least 500 people are feared dead and up to 2000 others missing after a landslide buried a village in northern Afghanistan.Powerful tornadoes kill at least 18 in US
A strong storm system moving across the central and southern United States has spawned several tornadoes, killing at least 18 people in ...Flash floods kill more than 123 in northern Afghanistan
More than 123 people have been killed in flash floods triggered by days of torrential rain in northern Afghanistan, local officials said. ...Militants kill second Somali lawmaker, threaten more attacks
Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Somali lawmaker in Mogadishu Tuesday, the second Somali member of parliament (MP) killed since Monday, media reported.80% of Syrian chemical weapons shipped out: monitors
The head of the international team overseeing the destruction of Syria\'s chemical arms says the country has shipped out or destroyed nearly ...Iran says reactor redesign ends dispute over plutonium production
Iran said it had completed watering down and converting more than 200 kilograms (440 lb) of enriched uranium under a deal reached ...At least twelve dead in Mount Everest avalanche
Twelve Nepalese guides are dead and three people are missing in an avalanche on Mount Everest, a Nepal tourism official says.Powerful earthquake rattles Mexico, shakes buildings
A powerful, magnitude-7.5 earthquake shook central and southern Mexico on Friday. The U.S. Geological Survey said it was centred northwest of the ...Scientists discover most earth-like planet
Astronomers have discovered what they say is the most Earth-like planet yet detected - a distant, rocky world that\'s similar in size ...