By Nia Williams (Reuters) -Firefighters in western Canada are battling the first major wildfires of 2024 after unseasonably warm temperatures and an ongoing drought left forests tinder-dry.
U.S. government officials have temporarily relaxed strict guidelines on how public health laboratories and healthcare facilities handle, store and transport
Investigators probing the March collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore said in a preliminary report the cargo ship Dali experienced an electrical blackout about 10 hours before leaving the Port of Baltimore and yet again shortly before it slammed into the bridge and killed six construction workers
Sizzling heat across Asia and the Middle East in late April that echoed last year’s destructive swelter was made 45 times more likely in some parts of the continent because of human-caused climate change, a study Tuesday found
By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) -Oil prices fell 1% on Tuesday, extending losses from Monday, on the back of rising U.S. crude production, as well as hopes of an Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
Astronomers say a planet that's bigger than Jupiter is surprisingly as fluffy and light as cotton candy
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing's first Starliner mission carrying astronauts into space has been delayed again - until at least May 21 - over an issue with the spacecraft's propulsion
Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been fined in her native Sweden for disobeying police orders after blocking an entrance to parliament on two occasions in March, the Stockholm
South Korea is readying plans for a support package for chip investments and research worth more than 10 trillion won ($7.30 billion), the finance minister said on Sunday, after
By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S.
There are early signs that a La Nina weather event may form in the Pacific Ocean later this year, Australia's weather bureau said on Tuesday.
By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) -The intense northern hemisphere summer heat that drove wildfires across the Mediterranean, buckled roads in Texas and strained power grids in China last year made it
Health insurance plans run by U.S. states must cover gender-affirming surgeries for transgender people, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday.
Solomon Islands lawmakers will select a new prime minister in a secret ballot on Thursday, choosing between foreign minister Jeremiah Manele and opposition leader Matthew
Panamanians will elect a new president on Sunday, with eight candidates set to appear on the ballot, and polls showing mixed rankings
A Nigerian court on Thursday adjourned a money laundering trial against cryptocurrency exchange Binance and two of its executives to May 17 after a lawyer for the
Astronomers have discovered what they believe is the biggest known batch of planet-making ingredients in the cosmos
Punxsutawney Phil’s offspring have names that just might help the famed weather-forecasting groundhog to predict when spring will begin
Google has rolled out a retooled search engine that will frequently favor responses crafted by artificial intelligence over website links
Britain is refusing to sign the World Health Organization's (WHO) pandemic accord because the country says it would have to give away a fifth of its vaccines, the Telegraph reported on
By Ankika Biswas and Johann M Cherian (Reuters) -Europe's benchmark index inched up to close at a record high on Thursday, driven by a jump in industrial stocks, while shares of Spanish bank BBVA hit
By David Shepardson and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S.
The U.S. government has a specialized plane loaded with advanced sensors that the EPA brags is always ready to deploy within an hour of any kind of chemical disaster
