LOS ANGELES, United States- A polar bear killed a young woman and her baby son in a remote area of Alaska, police said, in a rare attack by an animal battling the worst effects of human-caused climate change. Police said the bear roamed into the tiny community of Wales on the far western coast of […]
WASHINGTON, United States – Tick, tick, tick, and the doomsday clock will be updated on January 24. An update is coming to the “Doomsday Clock,” representing the judgment of leading science and security experts about the perils to human existence. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Tuesday that they will announce at 10:00 […]
PARIS, France – Scientists said Monday they have used a laser beam to guide lightning for the first time, hoping the technique will help protect against deadly lightning bolt – and one day maybe even trigger them. Lightning strikes between 40-120 times a second worldwide, killing more than 4,000 people and causing billions of dollars’ […]
WASHINGTON, United States – The Dallas Zoo was closed on Friday as police officers equipped with drones helped zoo staff search for an escaped clouded leopard. “If you happen to see a cat that is bigger than a housecat, smaller than a bobcat, we’d love a heads-up,” said Harrison Edell, a vice president for animal […]
GENEVA, Switzerland – The United Nations called Thursday for urgent funding to help 30 million children suffering from acute malnutrition “before it is too late” in countries being hammered by the food crisis. UN agencies said conflict, climate shocks, the Covid-19 pandemic and rising living costs were leaving an increasing number of children badly malnourished. […]
PARIS, France – Dodging the kind of meteorite strike that forced Russia to plan a space station rescue mission is nearly impossible, yet the greater threat to spacecraft is actually the man-made debris in orbit, experts say. Russian announced on Wednesday a February mission to the International Space Station to pick up crew members left […]
VATICAN CITY, Holy See – Pope Francis offered his prayers Wednesday for late Australian Cardinal George Pell, saying he kept his faith even while being tested. Pell, who died Tuesday in Rome aged 81, was a prominent figure in the Catholic Church who was convicted and later cleared of sexual abuse in Australia. In a […]
EL PASO, United States – President Joe Biden made a politically charged stop at the southern US border Sunday before flying to a Mexico City summit set to be dominated by a growing regional illegal migration and drug smuggling crisis. Biden is meeting Monday and Tuesday with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts one-on-one and also […]
BERLIN, Germany – Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg on Saturday discouraged non-essential trips to China, the world’s most populous nation, as it struggles with a surge in Covid cases after relaxing strict virus restrictions. “We currently discourage non-essential trips to China. The reason is a peak in Covid infections and an overwhelmed health system,” the German […]
