TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (MNA) – Two people were killed and 115 reported as injured in the earthquake of 5.2 magnitude that struck Tehran and Alborz Wed. night, according to latest report by Emergency Operation Center. A 70-year-old woman died of … Read More
AN outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in Majorca which claimed the life of a British tourist and affected 19 other British holidaymakers has been traced to a hotel Jacuzzi. Health officials on the island revealed they had identified the source in … Read More
Today’s New York Times has a long article, replete with photographs, on starving children in Venezuela. The situation is grim: Hunger has stalked Venezuela for years. Now, it is killing the nation’s children at an alarming rate, doctors in the country’s public … Read More
A California firefighter has died while battling the Thomas fire that is threatening the Golden State’s Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, officials said. The firefighter was an engineer with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection from San Diego, … Read More
MARCUS YAM VIA GETTY IMAGES LOS ANGELES ― There is smoke everywhere. It’s Monday morning at 10 a.m., and I’m driving north up California’s famously stunning coastline toward the Thomas fire, the largest and most uncontrolled of five massive wildfires … Read More
(CNN) One week after the Thomas Fire exploded from a brush fire to a raging inferno, thousands of firefighters made some headway Monday in their struggle to contain it. The blaze is larger than all of New York City and about … Read More
GETTY WELL STOCKED: Kim Jong-un at a new potato plant in Ryanggang Province, North Korea Sources inside North Korea claim Kim Jong-un has stepped up preparations for war with the US without having enough food for his soldiers. The beggar … Read More
. (Los Angeles Times) A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck along the coast of Ecuador on Sunday in the same area where a deadly tremor left hundreds dead last year. President Lenin Moreno said there were no immediate reports of victims … Read More