At least 6 people died and 190 were injured after a tornado ripped through Kaiyuan, in northeastern China, on Wednesday, according to state media outlet Xinhua.
What do you think?
Leave comment!
Southern California was hit by its strongest earthquake in two decades on Thursday.
The epicentre of the 6.4 magnitude tremor was near the city of Ridgecrest, which is about 150 miles (240 km) north-east of Los Angeles.
Firefighters provided medical assistance and dealt with fires in and around the city on Friday.
People from the Mojave Desert to the Pacific coast reported feeling the quake, which hit on Independence Day.
What do you think?
Leave comment!
“Mini power stations on wheels”, is how a University of Birmingham researcher describes them, as they give off zero emissions and their only by-product is water.
Two hydrogen trains are already in service in Germany but that design is not compatible with the UK's rail network.
source: BBC
What do you think?
Leave comment!
Authorities in Switzerland have handed suspended sentences to at least five members of Cameroon President Paul Biya's security team after they were arrested on Tuesday in Geneva for an alleged assault on a journalist.
What do you think?
Leave comment!
Mohamed Morsy represented both the zenith of the Arab Spring and its almost universal failure. He became Egypt's first democratically-elected president in 2012, but after a year of deepening chaos was forced from office in a coup led by then-defense minister Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi.
What do you think?
Leave comment!
President Donald Trump again lamented what he views as an unequal military alliance Wednesday, claiming that if the US is attacked, Japan "doesn't have to help us at all" and "can watch it on the Sony television."
What do you think?
Leave comment!
Huawei has denied that it has any links to the Chinese government.
Huawei's cyber-security chief John Suffolk told MPs on Monday that the tech giant had never been asked by China or any other government to "do anything untoward".
Mr Suffolk said Huawei welcomed outsiders to analyse its products and detect engineering or coding flaws.
What do you think?
Leave comment!
Thousands of people in Hong Kong have surrounded police headquarters, calling for an extradition bill to be scrapped.
Police have asked the protesters to withdraw peacefully, saying their presence would "seriously affect" emergency services.
What do you think?
Leave comment!
Almost a week after Rwandan President Paul Kagame was in South Africa to attend the inauguration ceremony of his counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa, his former bodyguard and strong critic Nkuruziza was hours ago assassinated by unknown gunmen in Cape Town South Africa.
What do you think?
Leave comment!
India is set to overtake China as the world's most populous country in less than a decade, according to a new United Nations report.
What do you think?
Leave comment!
Page 48 of 49