Touchdown! Japan space probe lands new robot on asteroid
A Japanese probe landed a new observation robot on an asteroid on Wednesday as it pursues a mission to shed light on the origins...
Time running out for survivors as Indonesia toll nears 1,400
The death toll in Indonesia's twin quake-tsunami disaster rose to nearly 1,400 Wednesday, with time running out to rescue survivors and the UN warning...
Thai bay made famous in ‘The Beach’ shut indefinitely
The glittering Thai bay immortalised in the movie "The Beach" will be closed indefinitely to allow it to recover from the impact of hordes...
Female Nobel winner a long time coming, and a drop in...
When Canadian scientist Donna Strickland got the early morning call informing her she just won the Nobel Physics Prize, she could barely hide her...
After days of restraint, Trump mocks Kavanaugh accuser
Donald Trump on Tuesday openly mocked the university professor who has accused his Supreme Court nominee of sexual assault, joking about her inability to...
Indonesia clamps down on looting as quake-tsunami toll tops 1,200
More than 1,200 people are now known to have died in the quake-tsunami that smashed into Sulawesi, Indonesia said Tuesday, as police pledged to...
Former classmate says Trump court nominee lied about his drinking
A one-time classmate of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee said Monday that Brett Kavanaugh was a habitual heavy drinker, challenging the judge's Senate...
Dozens of students found dead as Indonesia rescue ramps up
The bodies of dozens of students have been pulled from their landslide-swamped church in Sulawesi, officials said Tuesday, as an international effort to help...
Indonesia tsunami worsened by shape of Palu bay: scientists
The tsunami that ravaged the Indonesian city of Palu was outsized compared to the earthquake that spawned it, but other factors including a long,...
Quake-hit Indonesia starts burying dead in mass grave
Indonesian volunteers began burying bodies in a mass grave with space for more than a thousand people on Monday, victims of a quake-tsunami that...
