A powerful earthquake early Thursday shook a remote mountainous part of southwestern Pakistan dotted with coal mines and mud houses, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 200, an official said.
Some of the crude oil that spilled from a pipeline into the waters off Southern California has been breaking up naturally in ocean currents, a U.S. Coast Guard official said Wednesday as authorities sought to determine the scope of the damage.
The ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, hacked the phones of his ex-wife Princess Haya and her attorneys during the legal battle over custody of their two children, Britain's High Court found Wednesday.
Malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people every year, mostly children under five. The World Health Organization is endorsing Mosquirix, the only approved vaccine against the disease, in addition to the continued use of bednets and spraying.
Several cities in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil were overrun by sandstorms this week, causing damage to housing and knocking down trees.
NATO has expelled eight members of Russia's mission to the military alliance, saying that they were secretly working as intelligence officers. It also halved the size of Moscow's team able to work at its headquarters.
Live streaming video service Twitch has been hacked in a breach that has exposed the financial information of many of the people who use it.
YouTube said it has removed R&B singer R. Kelly's channels from its video platform, distancing itself from the singer who was convicted of sex trafficking last month.
If the U.S. Supreme Court soon overturns the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, the country could see archipelagos of abortion access — and the next battle will be over travel across state lines for procedures. It's happening in Texas.
With record numbers of military flights near Taiwan over the last week, China has been showing a new intensity and military sophistication as it steps up its harassment of the island it claims as its own and asserts its territorial ambitions in the region.
An increasing number of severely malnourished children from the Afghan countryside are flocking to a Kabul children's hospital after international aid for rural clinics dried up.
The World Health Organization says the number of newly reported coronavirus cases fell in the last week, continuing a declining global trend that first began in August.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been won by scientists David MacMillan and Benjamin List for developing a "new and ingenious" tool for molecule building.
Israel’s fierce fourth wave of COVID-19 cases may be in retreat, but the country is on the offensive against the virus once again — with an unprecedented round of vaccine boosters for everyone older than 12.
