05:00 Dean Blanchard is in crisis mode.Louisiana’s shrimp season is just about to start, and his brand new,$80,000 condenser for his refrigeration unit blew off his roof the day after i
FILE PHOTO: A rare tropical cyclone is approaching Tanzania and could become the first cyclone to make landfall in the nation in modern records. /VCG A rare tropical cyclone is approaching Tan
While most startups today are creating software, not every upstart enterprise is taking a code-only approach to building a business. Some of today’s most ambitious startups are aiming quite a bi
There are any number of seed rounds that cross our desks every day, a never-ending march of enterprise software, consumer apps, games, hardware, biotech, and sometimes even a space startup. But amid t
VCG South Africa's Table Mountain smouldered on Tuesday after a fire swept the iconic site, destroying a library housing rare collections and forcing thousands to evacuate, but officials said
FILE PHOTO: A general view of a fire ravaging the slopes of Table Mountain and Signal Hill in gale force winds in Cape Town, South Africa. /Getty Images South Africa's popular tourism spot and
05:58 Leading scientists have been seeking a new holy grail – "quantum supremacy." The term "quantum supremacy" does not indicate any technological superiority of one country over anot
On one end of Pennsylvania Avenue, he mourned with the family of a fallen police officer. On the other, he pledged to help end the epidemic of Black men being killed by
Authorities in Western Australia were urging residents of its Mid West coast to find safe shelter or leave on Saturday as cyclone Seroja barrelled towards a coastal reg
NASA's illustration of Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars. /CFP The helicopter that NASA has placed on Mars could make its first flight over the Red Planet within two days after a successful
The space agency's scientists believe the seismic events are caused by a sudden release of energy from the planet's interior.
Editor's note: Nathan Sheets is a chief economist at PGIM Fixed Income. He was the under secretary of the U.S. Treasury for International Affairs between 2014-2017. Previously, he also worked at t
Formal investigations into how the giant container ship Ever Given ran aground in the Suez Canal, shutting down shipping in the major global waterway for almost a week, begin on Wednesday, Reuters re
Experts on Tuesday boarded the massive container ship that had blocked Egypt’s vital Suez Canal and disrupted global trade for nearly a week, seeking answers to a singl
The Japanese blooms usually take place in April, but arrived in March this year - the earliest blossom in 1,200 years.
Navigation in the Suez Canal has been suspended temporarily until the re-floatation work on a ship grounded in a new course is finished, Osama Rabie, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) said o
In this still image captured by the Icelandic Coast Guard, lava flows from the erupting Fagradalsfjall volcano some 50 kilometers west of the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, March 19, 2021. /CFP