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Panama rocked by 2 powerful earthquakes and multiple aftershocks, prompting evacuationsOn Friday, two significant earthquakes of magnitudes 7.7 and 6.6 impacted southern Panama, leading to widespread evacuations. Many building...
Colombia earthquake: 111 dead, 87 injured as 7.4-magnitude quake devastates Choco; national emergency declaredA powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Colombia’s Pacific coast, killing at least 111 people and injuring 87. The quake damaged around ...
Colombia earthquake: The quakes that killed 70,000 people 158 years ago — all about the devastating 1868 Colombia-Ecuador disasterA strong earthquake struck western Colombia on August 10, 2026, causing significant damage and fatalities. This event recalls the devastati...
In the 1960s, the US bred up to 150 million sterile screwworm flies a week in Texas and dropped them from planes to protect livestock from a flesh-eating parasiteThe United States faces a renewed threat from the New World screwworm parasite. This pest, a fly larva, infests animal wounds and causes si...
The Story of 'Toughie': How the last known gliding tree frog vanishedThe last known Rabbs' fringe-limbed tree frog, named Toughie, died in 2016, marking the species' likely extinction. Researchers collected a...
Fallout from Venezuela's earthquakes turns political as opposition leader Machado seeks returnVenezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez faces a political crisis as her mandate expires, coinciding with the aftermath of devastating ...
Puma to metals, China snapping up overseas assets againIn January alone, the volume of outbound mergers and acquisitions from Greater China approached $12 billion, the most for the first month o...
Here's where Trump's most jaw-dropping promises stand a year into his second termSome of his ideas that once seemed implausible, if not outright fanciful, are now reality. But there are other things that Trump could not ...
Trump is itching for a war with Venezuela. It's oil and moreUnited States and Venezuela face escalating tensions. Washington's military buildup in the Caribbean raises fears of conflict. Analysts sug...
The airline industry's dirty secretSustainable aviation fuel or SAF faces challenges. United Airlines ended its contract with World Energy. World Energy's Paramount refinery ...
Baltimore Bridge Collapse: Catastrophic consequences threaten to impact cars to coalA catastrophic bridge collapse in Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge leaves six presumed dead, disrupts 2.5 million tons of coal and car ...
West Coast ports see longest labour disruptions since 2015The International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union, representing 22,000 dockworkers, and the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents...
Copper mine flashes warning of ‘Huge Crisis’ for world supplyA greener world will have six million tons less copper by next decade, as per an estimate by analysts at Wood Mackenzie.
Cyclone Phailin hits 90 lakh people; 23 dead, lakhs of homes damagedPhailin weakened further turning into "deep depression" with wind speed of 45-55 kmph and currently lay over northern Chhattisgarh.
Phailin hits 90 lakh people; 14 dead, lakhs of homes damagedOfficial sources in New Delhi said the storm left 14 dead including 13 in Odisha after one of the largest evacuation efforts in the country...
Cyclone Phailin hits 90 lakh people, huge loss to crops, housesThe cyclone left a trail of destruction, hitting nearly 90 lakh people, damaging over 2.34 lakh houses and laying waste paddy crop worth ab...
Rating agencies like Fitch & others have finally begun to appreciate the complexities of Indian economyRating agencies have lent themselves to severe criticisms ranging from an Anglo-Saxon bias to manipulating ratings for building revenue.
- Massive earthquake in Chile, 78 dead
A massive magnitude-8.8 earthquake struck south-central Chile early Saturday, killing at least 78 people, knocking down buildings and trigg...
- 8.8-magnitude earthquake hits central Chile, sets off tsunami
A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake capable of tremendous damage struck central Chile early Saturday, shaking the capital for a minute and a...
- Microsoft may target Yahoo investors
In rejecting the offer, Yahoo founder Yang confronts Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo investors whose stock tumbled in the past two ye...