Muifa, once a super typhoon with winds exceeding 250 km/h (1-min sustained), made landfall near the border between China and North Korea around 12:00...
Typhoon Muifa is tracking across the Pacific Ocean, en route to mainland China, after delivering heavy rain to the Philippines Tuesday and Wednesday. Muifa...
Major US meat processor Cargill has launched a national recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey linked to an outbreak of drug-resistant salmonella,...
US weekly claims for unemployment insurance remained at a high 400,000 last week, the Labor Department said Thursday, as business and government layoffs persisted...
Tropical Storm Emily is expected to hit the island of Hispaniola—shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic—with heavy rain and 50-mph winds this afternoon....
Birth control pills, breastfeeding equipment and testing for human papillomaviruses will be covered under US health plans at no cost beginning next year, officials...
The US President Barack Obama announced that Republican and Democratic leaders have reached an agreement to raise the government’s debt ceiling and thus avoid...
Tropical Storm Don, the fourth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has made landfall near Baffin Bay, Texas according to modelling firm AIR...
Since 9/11, a number of terrorist plots, including those planned by right-wing extremists, have been interdicted in the western democracies. In particular, infiltration of...
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Tropical Storm Don is moving across the southern Gulf of Mexico toward the Texas coast near Corpus...
Japanese women remained the world's longest-living last year, although their average life expectancy edged down slightly to 86.39 years, the government said Wednesday.
The fall...
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has revised its outlook to positive from stable on Oslo-based marine insurer Assuranceforeningen SKULD (Gjensidig) (Skuld or the club)....
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled reforms to address a massive housing crisis which has sparked the biggest social protests seen in the Jewish...