You can still contract this infectious disease, aptly nicknamed the “black death.” DR_MICROBE/GETTY IMAGES While the world is still battling the new coronavirus, an ancient disease has reared its head in China. On July 5, a herdsman in Inner Mongolia … Read More
(CNN) Imagine a noisy, crowded bar. Music is pounding, and people are clustered close together, talking loudly, or even shouting to be heard. If it’s cold out, doors and windows are shut tight and the heat is on, or if … Read More
PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Rescuers evacuating residents in a flooded area in China’s southwestern Chongqing in this photo taken on Sunday and released yesterday. It was the municipality’s worst flood since 1940. China’s national observatory yesterday renewed its blue alert for … Read More
A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert is arriving along the U.S. Gulf Coast this week after traveling across the Atlantic Ocean. The phenomenon happens every year – but the 2020 version is especially large and imposing, experts … Read More
The worst could be still to come in the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, six months on from when the outbreak began. WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the virus would infect many more people if … Read More
More than 11 million Syrians are in need of humanitarian aid and protection – Reuters Syria faces the risk of mass starvation or another mass exodus unless more aid money is made available, the head of the UN World Food … Read More
The coast of southern Mexico was rattled by a powerful earthquake on Tuesday morning that killed at least two people and triggered a tsunami alert for Pacific coastlines along Central America. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.4 and struck at 11:29 a.m. ET, 7 miles … Read More
It struck 710km north-east of Gisborne early this morning. A 7.4 magnitude earthquake, which struck off the coast of Gisborne in the early hours of Friday morning, was felt across New Zealand. The quake was 33km deep, and about 700km … Read More
A total of 170 people died of drug overdoses in British Columbia, Canada, in May, over three times as many as died from COVID-19 that month and more than have died from the disease there over the course of the … Read More