5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (224+ words) National Hurrcane Center warns of strong winds, heavy rains, flash floods Hurricane Lowell, currently a Category 2 storm, hit western Hawaii on Monday, prompting several warnings for the chain of islands, CBS reports. Early Monday, Hurricane Lowell was classified as a…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (490+ words) The area around Mont Blanc -- nicknamed the "roof of Europe" -- has been particularly hard hit. Chamonix (France) (AFP) — The exceptionally hot summer in the Alps has been marked by a record number of rockfalls, some of them fatal, with “a…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (638+ words) Beijing, Aug 19, 2026 (AFP) — Robots sorting parcels and serving fried chicken enthralled visitors at a robotics expo in Beijing on Wednesday, where hundreds of companies set out their pitches for a future labour market transformed by artificial intelligence. The Chinese government…...

1+ mon, 17+ hour ago   (252+ words) Paris, France, Aug 12, 2026 (AFP) — France on Wednesday recorded a more than 20 percent shortfall in nuclear power production capacity, a record deficit caused by environmentally related outages linked to drought, extreme heat and a jellyfish invasion. France uses nuclear power to…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (659+ words) Paris, France, Aug 10, 2026 (AFP) — Much of Europe is bracing for yet another heatwave following periods of scorching temperatures that have driven rivers to record lows, ignited historic forest fires and contributed to thousands of deaths. Parts of Britain and France…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (440+ words) 300,000 told to evacuate, 40,000 homes without power, dozen feared missing or dead in mall collapse. One person is dead, more than 100 have been injured, and dozens of people were feared trapped in a collapsed shopping mall after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (435+ words) Rescue comes months after owners of shuttered attraction stated they might euthanize marine mammals Aquariums in the United States and Spain are coming to rescue numerous mammals stranded at Marineland. “Without this rescue, the whales’ future was unknown,” the Georgia…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (688+ words) Paris (France) (AFP) — Europe is still taking stock of a powerful heatwave in late June but experts are already confident it ranks among the worst ever recorded — even rivalling a freak 2003 episode. Temperature records were rewritten across Europe as hundreds…...