On Nov. 30, 2017, a Turkish Airlines flight carrying 107 passengers was forced to land in Khartoum due to a bomb threat. The Boeing 737 was in flight from Nairobi heading to Cairo when a British passenger received a bomb threat in an email as the aircraft flew into Sudanese airspace, according to the Civil […]
Sixteen earthquakes struck near Tadine, New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands, on Nov. 19, 2017. The quakes started at 9:25 UTC +11, and continued until 16:08. The size of the temblors and the depths they reached were as follows, beginning with the most recent: 5.7M 10 km depth 5.9M 10 km 6.9M 19 km 6.6M […]
Malcolm Young, the rhythm guitarist from AC/DC is dead. According to NBC, the member of the Australian hard rock band was 64. The official AC/DC Facebook page announced his death on Saturday but offered no details. In 2014, Young was diagnosed with dementia. NBC reported that he died peacefully surrounded by his loving family. The […]
A disease bedeviling the African continent is the steady rise of the unemployment rate. Most of the government policies and budgets are structured one way or the other in order to fight poverty, which is one of the results of unemployment. According to the City Press newspaper of Jan. 17, 2015, fees of private schools […]
A 5.6M earthquake struck 95 km northeast of Hihifo, Tonga, with a depth of 10 km, at 15:24 UTC. The exact latitude and longitude of the quake was 15.183°S and 15.334°W. It was felt as far as 688.3 km away in Nuku´alofa, Tonga. The earthquake effected Apia, Samoa; Tāfuna, American Samoa; and Pago Pago, American […]
The U.S. Treasury Department declared it levied sanctions against several companies and individuals in China and Russia who have ties to North Korea. The decision was made in part as an effort to isolate Kim Jong-un after his continued testing of intercontinental missiles and nuclear weapons. On Aug. 22, 2017, the sanctions against 10 businesses […]
The region of Papua, Indonesia suffered an earthquake measuring 6.5 in magnitude, Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, at 23:49:29 UTC. Primary areas that were affected include Ubrub, Abepura, and Jayapura. This is the second consecutive earthquake reported in Indonesia this week. The Southeast Asian nation was hit yesterday by a quake of the same magnitude. There is no tsunami […]
Five tourists were killed and 63 injured when a powerful earthquake rocked the mountain regions near Jiuzhaigo National Park in China, on August 8, 2017, around 9:20 p.m. ET. Thirty people are reportedly in critical condition. According to an emergency official, the town of Zhangza reported the casualties from the powerful quake. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, […]
Charlie Gard, the 11-month-old terminally ill British baby passed away on July 28, 2017. He became international news during his parents’ fight to keep him on life support. After his passing, Gard’s mom, Connie Yates, lamented his death in a statement, according to BBC News. She said: Our beautiful little boy has gone, we are […]
On April 3, 2016, Oregon Live reported that a 12-year-old student from Beaumont Middle School, in Portland, Oregon, had been handcuffed and removed from the premises on Wednesday, March 30, 2016. The young girl was arrested a few days after pulling another student by her hair and pushing a substitute teacher. When the young girl […]