With population boom, urbanization, World Bank warns waste could grow 70% by 2050
Global waste could grow by 70 percent by 2050 as urbanization and populations rise, the World Bank said Thursday, with South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa set to generate the biggest increase in rubbish. Countries could reap economic and environmental benefits by better collecting, recycling and disposing of trash, according to a ...
At least 79 people died when a ferry capsized in Lake Victoria, Tanzanian state media said Friday, citing a regional governor, as the search for survivors continued. "At the moment the death toll is 79," said Mwanza Gov. John Mongella, quoted on state television. The number ...
French judge orders far-right leader Le Pen to undergo psychiatric tests over IS tweets
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen expressed outrage Thursday after being ordered to undergo psychiatric tests for tweeting pictures of atrocities committed by the Islamic State group. Le Pen shared the gruesome images in December 2015, a few weeks after IS jihadis killed 130 people ...
Site where Capt. Cook's long-lost ship may be resting is off Rhode Island, marine archaeologists say
Researchers have identified a site off the coast of Rhode Island where they think the ship that 18th-century explorer Capt. James Cook used to sail around the world may be located. The Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project, which is leading the search effort, and the ...
'Death by a thousand cuts': Scientists fear non-pest insects are declining
A staple of summer — swarms of bugs — seems to be a thing of the past. And that makes scientists worry. Pesky mosquitoes, disease-carrying ticks, crop-munching aphids and cockroaches are doing just fine. But the more beneficial flying insects of summer — native bees, ...
The Trump administration imposed sanctions on the Chinese military on Thursday for buying fighter jets and missile systems from Russia, in breach of a sweeping U.S. sanctions law punishing Moscow for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. The U.S. State Department said it would immediately ...
Britain's anti-EU party UKIP launches populist manifesto demanding clean Brexit
Britain's anti-European Union U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) launched a set of populist policies on Friday hoping to revive their dwindling political influence and capitalize on outrage over the government's handling of Brexit. Prime Minister Theresa May is struggling to sell her plan for a Brexit ...
Trump heads to U.N. as U.S. retreats from world but this time other leaders know the drill
America first? Try America first, second and third. As President Donald Trump prepares for his second U.N. General Assembly, the Olympics of international diplomacy, his administration has turned unabashedly and profoundly inward, pursuing ever more unilateral policies in what critics argue is a great retreat ...
NASA's TESS telescope spots two new planets light years away five months after launch
A planet-hunting orbital telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system discovered two distant planets this week five months after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, officials said on Thursday. NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, better known as TESS, made an early discovery of ...
Employee guns down three at Maryland distribution hub before killing herself
An employee at a Rite Aid warehouse opened fire at work Thursday, killing three people before taking her own life, authorities said. Several other people were wounded. The suspect was a 26-year-old temporary employee at the Rite Aid distribution center in northeastern Maryland, Harford County ...
Floodwaters inundate lake at retired North Carolina power plant, threatening dam
Duke Energy activated a high-level emergency alert at a retired coal-fired power plant in North Carolina as floodwaters from the nearby Cape Fear River overtopped an earthen dike there and inundated a large lake, raising concerns of a potential breach. The dam containing Sutton Lake ...
U.S. takes off the gloves in global fight against cyberattacks: top officials
The United States is taking off the gloves in the growing, shadowy cyber war waged with China, Russia and other rivals, a top White House official said Thursday. National Security Adviser John Bolton said the country's "first fully articulated cyber strategy in 15 years" was ...
Yellowstone thermal spring erupts for fourth time in 60 years, prompting boardwalk closure
A thermal spring near Old Faithful in Yellowstone National Park has erupted for the fourth time in the last 60 years, a park official said Thursday. Ear Spring on Yellowstone's Geyser Hill went from being dormant Saturday to spewing steam and water between 20 and ...
