The death toll from Monday’s devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria is expected to reach 50,000, according to the United Nations. Nearly 28,000 bodies have already...
Equatorial Guinea is investigating an outbreak of an unidentified illness causing hemorrhagic fever which has killed at least eight people, local officials say. Two affected villages...
An asteroid which was discovered by a Crimean astronomer last week will zoom past Earth on Thursday night in one of the closest encounters ever recorded,...
A huge iceberg the size of London has broken off the 150-meter thick Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica, scientists say. It finally calved from giant cracks...
Temperatures in Siberia have dropped as low as -62.7°C (-80.9°F), making it the coldest day in Russia in more than two decades, meteorologists say. Large parts...
A 9-year-old girl in Ecuador has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu, making it the first such case in South America, local officials say. The girl...
The Ebola outbreak which erupted in Uganda nearly four months ago has been officially declared over, officials said Wednesday. The outbreak claimed nearly 80 lives in...
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 has struck the Banda Sea near Indonesia and East Timor, with shaking felt as far away as...
Counter-terrorism police have raided a home in western Germany after a man was suspected of preparing a terrorist attack with cyanide and ricin, officials say. The...
A man in central China has tested positive for H5N6 bird flu, raising the number of human cases during the past year to 25, officials say....
