A powerful 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Northern California on Thursday, sending shockwaves across the region, knocking items off shelves, and causing children to scramble under desks.
The temblor, which hit at 10:44 a.m., originated near (...)
A California hiker has been rescued after being stranded in the mountains for 10 days, surviving on little but wild berries and one gallon (3.8 liters) of water a day.
Lukas McClish, 34, went out for what was supposed to be a three-hour hike in the (...)
Pro-Palestinian student protests are ongoing at several universities across the US, with calls for divestment from Israel and demands for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. These demonstrations have become more organized, featuring encampments and (...)
A federal judge sentenced a former dive boat captain on Thursday to four years in prison on a negligence conviction known as "seaman's manslaughter" after 34 people were killed in a fire that broke out on his boat in 2019.
Jerry Nehl Boylan, who (...)
Tens of thousands of people in Spain's Canary Islands have rallied against a model of mass tourism they say is overwhelming the Atlantic archipelago.
The protesters want limits on tourist numbers and curbs on what they describe as uncontrolled (...)
At least three people have been killed by falling trees as a powerful storm drenches California bringing flooding, mudslides and power outages.
Fire officials have responded to over 130 flooding incidents and conducted several rescues since the (...)
At least 10 people, including three children, were killed when the roof of a church collapsed in northern Mexico.
The collapse happened on Sunday afternoon local time as around 100 people were attending a baptism at Santa Cruz church in Ciudad (...)
Around 25 million people in California are under a flood watch this weekend as the latest in a parade of deadly storms drenches the state.
Several waterways have flooded, at least 19 people have died and thousands have been told to evacuate their (...)
California's governor has declared a state of emergency as residents brace for a major storm - the second to drench the state in the past week.
The storm is expected to develop into a bomb cyclone, and spark rain and snowstorms that could cause (...)
A court in Argentina has sentenced Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to six years in jail for corruption in a case that has shaken the country.
Fernández, 69, was found guilty of "fraudulent administration" over the awarding of public (...)
Judges in Argentina are due to deliver a verdict later on Tuesday in a corruption case involving the country's vice-president, 69-year-old Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Fernández is accused of aggravated fraud and leading a conspiracy to award (...)
A new species of giant water lily has been discovered — and it's been hiding in plain sight for 177 years.
The huge plant had been in the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and was growing in a number of aquatic collections but it was (...)
At least 13 people have been killed in flooding after heavy rain in Merida state in western Venezuela.
"We can speak of eleven dead as a result of torrential rain in the city of Tovar and of two children who died in the municipality of Pinto Salina (...)
A fire in the sea off Mexico due to a gas leak in an underwater pipeline was extinguished after five and a half hours, the state oil company Pemex said on Friday.
The fire broke out in the southern waters of the Gulf of Mexico on Friday after an (...)
أعلنت هيونداي رسميًا عن سيارتها الجديدة Santa Cruz التي صممتها لتكون أبرز منافس لمركبات البيك آب من فورد وتويوتا .
وجاء تصميم السيارة الجديدة وفقًا ل" " moto1 بشكل عصري مستوحى من تصاميم سيارات Tucson الحديثة، وبهيكل جميع حوافه محمية من الصدمات (...)
يعد الاكتئاب أحد أمراض العصر المنتشرة على نطاق واسع، حيث تشير الدراسات إلى أن خمس سكان الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية يمرون بتجربة اكتئاب في إحدى مراحل حياتهم. وعلى الرغم من التقدم الحاصل في تفهم المجتمع لماهية الاكتئاب، ما زال هذا المرض من الأمراض التي (...)
braced for more lightning storms on Monday that could supercharge massive wildfires burning across an area three times the size of Los Angeles, according to Reuters.
The worst of the wildfires, including the second and third largest in California (...)
A student was killed in Bolivian protests Wednesday amid increasing pressure on President Evo Morales to resign over opposition claims that he rigged his recent re-election.
The 20 year-old student died of injuries sustained in clashes between pro- (...)
A Bolivian protest leader vowed on Tuesday to intensify pressure on President Evo Morales to resign as he resisted opposition demands that he step down over contentious election results.
Luis Fernando Camacho, a civic leader who has become a major (...)
A civic leader urged Bolivians to "paralyze" government institutions and block the borders as protests sparked by the contentious election victory last month of President Evo Morales entered their third week on Monday.
The long-standing leftist (...)
A Bolivian protest leader has vowed to return to the capital and continue pushing for President Evo Morales' resignation after he left La Paz earlier on Tuesday as government supporters staked out an airport chanting for his removal from the (...)
Bolivians furious over what they saw as an attempt by leftist President Evo Morales to rig Sunday's election protested outside the hotel in the capital city of La Paz where the country's electoral board was processing remaining ballots on (...)
أسفرت الحرائق التي أتت على أكثر من 4 ملايين هكتار في بوليفيا، عن نفوق ما لا يقل عن مليوني حيوان والقضاء على غابة بدائية، وفق ما كشف خبراء في البيئة، وأتت الحرائق، التي استمرت لأسابيع، على السهول المدارية في منطقة تشيكيتانيا في شرق البلاد، بحسب ما (...)
Federal safety investigators on Tuesday promised an exhaustive probe into the fire that killed 34 people on a dive boat as many of the charred bodies remained trapped in the sunken wreckage off the California coast or missing in the ocean.
After (...)
Divers were scouring for bodies on the wreckage of a scuba diving boat off California on Tuesday, after a fast-moving fire trapped dozens of people below deck, sparking a panicked rescue call from a man gasping, "I can't breathe."
Emergency crews (...)
