A Papua New Guinea government official told the United Nations over 2,000 people were believed to have been buried alive by Friday's landslide and has asked for international help.

Sierra Leone this year declared a war on the cheap synthetic drug called kush, calling it an epidemic and a national threat. The drug is ravaging youth, and healthcare services are severely limited.

'I thought why don’t we give it a try?' said student Swapnil Shrivastav, after inspiration struck.

Huge storm front heads north-east a day after 22 die in tornadoes and high winds across four states.

A rogue document apparently showing Russian intention to expand its territory in the Baltic region surfaced in the past few days.

Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea’s mass-casualty disaster.

Cases of bird flu have been detected in alpacas at a US farm, authorities said Tuesday, as the disease spreads widely among dairy cattle and has infected

China on Wednesday vowed military pressure on Taiwan would carry on as long as "independence" provocations continued on the self-ruled island. Last week,

Severe weather is anticipated across Texas and southern Oklahoma on Tuesday, with strong storms expected to bring damaging winds, large hail, and the risk of flash flooding.

He warned the refusal to prioritise education for all citizens portends danger for the country Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, says Nigeria must

The scars left after an intense derecho blasted the Houston area on May 16 are visible from space.

Alaska's melting permafrost is dumping toxic metals into the state's rivers, turning them bright orange and making the water highly acidic. The contaminated rivers are so vibrant they can be seen from space, and the problem is likely to get much worse in…

The United States and Europe are taking steps to acquire or manufacture H5N1 bird flu vaccines that could be used to protect at-risk poultry and dairy workers, veterinarians and lab technicians, government officials said, moves influenza experts say could…

Russia losing a strategic early warning radar system is a new twist in the Ukraine conflict that could have further reaching ramifications.

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake that struck Tonga yesterday caused a lot of alarm but no damages or injury. The epicentre of the quake was located 70 kilometres off Tongatapu.

Warning systems and mitigation measures put in place two decades ago at Tsho Rolpa, one of 21 ‘critically dangerous’ lakes, are no longer adequate.

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Samsung Electronics union: The firm is the world's biggest producer of memory chips, including versions used in top-of-the-line AI hardware from industry leaders such as Nvidia.

People advance in the workplace by putting the organisation before its people – but this just allows the cover-up culture to thrive.