Two-trailer carrying 15 tonnes of lithium ion batteries caught alight near Yass on Saturday morning, closing traffic in both directions Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA truck carrying 15 tonnes of lithium ion batteries has caught alight and closed traffic on a major New S…
Inquiry into recent Avanti West Coast train derailment in Cumbria finds sensors may not work if landslips happen quicklyAccident investigators have issued an urgent safety warning that the railway’s landslide monitoring equipment may not work when the earth moves suddenly, after discovering sensors …
People of Silverdale report rattling and shaking as 2.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in probable aftershockA village in Lancashire has been hit by a “radiator rattling” earthquake for the second time in little over two weeks.Residents of Silverdale, a small coastal village located five miles south o…
Os repórteres Patricia Xavier e Daniel Carvalho contam os assuntos que marcaram a semana no Brasil. Com edição de Barbara Nascimento e produção de Raphael Almeida.
Police in city of Pacific told residents to evacuate just hours after evacuation order had been lifted in nearby suburbsResidents near a breached levee in Washington state were told to evacuate early Tuesday, just hours after an evacuation alert was lifted for residents near another broken levee in …
A JetBlue pilot said a “midair collision” was avoided in an incident near Venezuela that the commercial pilot is blaming on the pilot of a U.S. Air Force refueling tanker. “We almost had a midair collision up here,” the JetBlue pilot said, according to a recording of his conversation with air traff…
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck near northeastern Japan on Monday night, injuring multiple people and triggering tsunami alerts and evacuation orders for thousands of residents.The big picture: The quake that the Japan Meteorological Agency noted happened around 23:15pm local time at a depth of 31…
Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado was cheered by a large crowd after she arrived in Oslo early Thursday, hours after her daughter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway's capital on her behalf.Why it matters: It's the first public appearance in 11 months by the 58-year-old industri…