A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the West Chile Rise at a depth of 10.5 km (6.5 miles), the quake hit at 22:51:00 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011.
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the Kuril Islands at a depth of 43.1 km (26.8 miles), the quake hit at 22:34:09 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011.
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck the North Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 15.1 km (9.4 miles), the quake hit at 22:14:40 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 58.6 km (36.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:19:09 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Banda Sea, Indonesia at a depth of 517.4 km (321.5 miles), the quake hit at 20:17:34 UTC Tuesday 30th August 2011.
At least 25 people were killed in flooding that hit the city of Ibadan in southwestern Nigeria over the weekend, the Nigerian Red Cross said Tuesday.
Palestinians in Gaza have acquired anti-aircraft and anti-tank rockets from Libya during its six-month civil war, enlarging but not significantly improving their arsenal, Israeli officials said on Monday.
Recent turmoil on financial markets is threatening economic recovery in the European Union, the bloc's leading economic official said today.
Spanish authorities have warned the country's youth against a homemade drug that has killed two people and put another two in hospital.
Much of Britain suffered the coldest summer for almost two decades, Met Office statistics show.
If Michael Crichton had lived to write a follow-up to State of Fear, the plotline might well have gone like this: at a top secret, state of the art laboratory in Switzerland, scientists finally discover the true cause of “global warming”. It’s the sun, stupid. More specifically – as the Danish physicist Henrik Svensmark has long postulated – it’s the result of cosmic rays which act as a seed for cloud formation. The scientists working on the project are naturally euphoric: this is a major breakthrough which will not only overturn decades of misguided conjecture on so-called Man Made Global Warming but will spare the global economy trillions of dollars which might otherwise have been squandered on utterly pointless efforts to reduce anthropogenic CO2 emissions. However, these scientists have failed to realise just how many people – alarmist scientists, huckster politicians, rent-seeking landowners like (the late Michael Crichton’s brilliant and, of course, entirely fictional creation) the absurd, pompous Sir Reginald Leeds Bt, green activists, eco-fund managers, EU technocrats, MSM environmental correspondents – stand to gain from the Man Made “Climate Change” industry. Their discovery must be suppressed at all costs. So, one by one, the scientists on the cosmic ray project find themselves being bumped off, until only one man remains and must race against time to prove, etc, etc…
The governor of a state under assault by the EPA takes on the patron saint of climate change over whether "warmers" or "deniers" benefit financially from the debate. Meanwhile, the nation loses.
RATES of mental illnesses including depression and post-traumatic stress will increase as a result of climate change, a report to be released today says.
China’s bear farms, where for decades bile has been extracted from the endangered animals in horrific conditions, have been condemned by eminent Chinese scientists.At a conference in London on Friday, the experts will say there is no justification for the farms because their latest research has shown that that herbal substitutes have greater health benefits than those claimed for bear bile which is used in traditional Chinese medicine.
China wants to cement in law police powers to hold dissidents and other suspects of state security crimes in secret locations without telling their families, under draft legislation released on Tuesday that has been decried by rights advocates.
Miami International Airport has led the way in the latest technology for airport security. One airport passenger learned this the hard way when he was trying to sneak seven exotic snakes onto a plane…in his pants.
A tiny insect that may have caught a ride to Central Florida from Texas is killing thousands of palm trees in the area.
Astronauts may need to take the unprecedented step of temporarily abandoning the International Space Station if last week's Russian launch accident prevents new crews from flying there this fall.
Consumers' confidence in August dropped almost 15 points to the lowest level since April 2009 as worries about the economy fueled the wildest stock market swings since the financial meltdown in 2008.
Leroy Luetscher was working in his back garden when he dropped a pair of pruning shears, which landed point-side down in the ground.
Large Egyptian army forces are battling Jihad operatives in the Sinai Peninsula Tuesday as Israel maintains its heightened alert on the tense southern border with Egypt.
Afghanistan — August has become the deadliest month for U.S. troops in the nearly 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, where international forces have started to go home and let Afghan forces take charge of securing their country.
Relatively speaking, the first months of 2011 have been full of good news for Somalia, the world's closest approximation of anarchy. For two full decades, the majority of the territory in this crescent-shaped country on the Horn of Africa has gone essentially ungoverned; an internationally recognized transitional government is fighting tooth and nail to control the capital. Yet after months of stalemate with Islamist insurgents, the momentum finally seems to be turning. Block by block, the national troops -- with the considerable help of an African Union-U.N. joint peacekeeping mission -- have made significant territorial gains in Mogadishu.
The US government has wasted $30bn (£18bn) in contracts in Afghanistan and Iraq over the last decade, according to a bi-partisan spending commission.
ndian-administered Kashmir's first major literature festival has been cancelled after local writers and artists said it would give the false impression that basic freedoms are allowed in the troubled region.
A bacterial strain that is now extinct has been identified as the cause of the devastating Black Death plague in the 14th century.
At least 50,000 people, civilians and combatants, have been killed in Libya's six-month war to oust Moammar Gadhafi, a rebel military commander told CNN Tuesday.
A cannibal has admitted to killing a man and then making sausages and meatballs from his corpse.
He was so proud of his culinary achievements, including rib dishes, that he posted short video clips on the Internet, according to police who removed the offensive footage.
The 21-year-old - who worked as a chef - confessed to police in the Russian city of Murmansk saying that he had a strong desire to eat human flesh.
He had used a gay dating website to lure his victim, aged 32, to his flat where he brutally knifed him to death before cutting off his head and feet.
Investigator Fedor Bludenov said yesterday: 'The defendant wanted to try eating at least ten people in the future.
'The accused stabbed the man a few times, and after having assured himself that his victim was dead, he cut up his body and ate him.'
The killer, named only as Ivan L, believed that the man would 'not be open with his contacts', and would not be found at his flat. Read More
New details of unethical U.S. medical experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s have revealed that a dying woman was reinfected with syphilis.
The experiments nearly 70 years ago are already considered one of the darkest periods in U.S. medical research history.
Researchers who experimented on disabled American citizens and prison inmates in the name of medical advancement also infected a dying woman with syphilis in order to test whether penicillin could prevent infections.
New details released by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues revealed that soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners and mental patients were also among the 1,300 deliberately infected with the STD.
The commission revealed on Monday that only about 700 of those infected received some sort of treatment.
Of those infected, 83 people died, although it's not clear if the deaths were directly due to the experiments. Read More
The babies of Roman prostitutes were regularly murdered by their mothers, archaeologists have found.A farmer's field in Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, yielded the grisly secret after a mass grave containing the remains of 97 babies - who all died around the same age - was uncovered.
Following a close study of the plot, experts have decided it was the site of an ancient brothel and terrible infanticides took place there.
With little or no effective contraception available to the Romans, who also considered infanticide less shocking than it is today, they may have simply murdered the children as soon as they were born.
Archaeologists say locals may have systematically killed and buried the helpless youngsters on the site.
Measurements of their bones at the site in Hambleden show all the babies died at around 40 weeks gestation, suggesting very soon after birth. If they had died from natural causes, they would have been different ages. Read More
DNA taken from the skeletons of plague victims in medieval London has unearthed a shocking revelation – the Black Death is still present today.Bodies of victims, who were buried in a mass ‘plague graves’ in the capital, show that part of the same sequence of genes still exists, hundreds of years later.
The Black Death claimed the lives of one-third of Europe's population in just five years from 1348 to 1353.
Scientists have now confirmed that Yersinia pestis which is known to cause cases of the plague today was also responsible for the brutally damaging bubonic plague which almost wiped out Europe.
Previously, tests which showed presence of the bacteria in medieval samples had been ignored because it was assumed they were contaminated and because the modern day bug spreads much more slowly and is far less deadly. Read More
Filthy living conditions in 14th Britain have been blamed for allowing the Black Death to spread.
It remains one of the most destructive pandemics in history which peaked in Europe between 1348 and 1350.
Experts say it reduced the world's population from an estimated 450 million to almost 350 million in 1400.
In 1603 the killer plague returned and killed 38,000 Londoners.
A top German business leader today called for his country to quit the euro and join richer northern neighbours in a currency block instead.Hans-Olaf Henkel, the well-respected former head of the country’s main business federation, said his earlier support for the euro was ‘the biggest professional mistake I ever made’.
He called on Germany, Austria, Finland and the Netherlands to quit the euro – ditching struggling economies such as Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy - and set up a new currency of their own.
Such a move – perhaps the closest thing possible to the return of the Deutsche Mark - would be highly controversial as Germany is the area’s powerhouse economy and has so far insisted it will stand behind the euro.
But Mr Henkel said: ‘We need to focus on saving Europe, not the euro.’ Read More
New York City and Washington, DC experienced a rather powerful, shallow earthquake this afternoon, just as a category 1 hurricane is making its way towards the Eastern seaboard. While these two events seem to be completely separate, I have a feeling that they could be connected. Follow me down this rabbit hole, if you will, in a short exercise in conspiracy theory building.
A crashed Russian cargo ship and delays in the next manned space launch could mean that the International Space Station will be without a crew for the first time in 11 years.
If experience is any indication, many Canadians could find themselves in debt years longer than they originally expected, according to a new poll.
A man who couldn't pay his bill at a North Vancouver restaurant told staff he was going to rob a nearby gas station to get the cash — then was arrested after doing the deed and returning to settle his tab.
Tropical storm Katia has formed in the Atlantic and could reach hurricane intensity by late Wednesday or early Thursday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center says.
The Quebec government is getting ready to launch a campaign this fall against big-box stores and their stubbornly English names.
The post-tropical cyclone that was once Hurricane Irene tore a destructive path through Quebec and the Maritimes, leaving tens of thousands in darkness as police continued the search for a driver whose car was caught in raging flood waters north of Montreal.
India's economy registered a slight slowdown in its growth in the first quarter (April to June) this fiscal year. GDP figures came in at 7.7% -- roughly in line with expectations, but lower than the 7.8% growth last quarter.
Veteran sailor Dennis Howard is preparing for one of the most challenging journeys of his life -- a solo voyage around the world.
Taiwan's health department is investigating how the organs of an HIV-positive donor were cleared for transplant for five recipients at two hospitals.
Weeks after muting his public criticisms, Ai Weiwei has broken his silence.
Gangs of armed youths in the Nigerian city of Jos attacked Muslims as they gathered to celebrate the last day of Ramadan, killing a number of them and burning their cars, witnesses and the military said.
Seriously injured in a shell attack, his Tamil Tiger comrades dead, Mano (pseudonym) tried to end his own life by biting on the cyanide pill that, like all hardened fighters, he wore around his neck. But an elderly woman nearby rushed to give him water and he survived. Alone, he languished on the sand for six days, surrounded by the bodies of his friends and the ruins of war.
Home ownership will fall to its lowest level since the mid-1980s over the next decade, a new study has found.
Cuts in retail, cleaning and catering jobs have contributed to the rising number of unemployed women, new research has revealed.
The number of women in the domestic and catering sectors who were claiming JSA in July increased by 16% compared with a year ago, the research showed.
Women working as care assistants in public firms and the private sector have also been badly affected, with an 18% increase in JSA claimants in those areas, said the report. more
