The official Chinese news agency Xinhua says 55 people have died in days of severe hail and rain storms in south of the country. Another 14 people have been reported missing. The hardest area is Guangdong province where hundreds of thousands of people have been affected. Thirty-...
The Nigerian military has launched air raids on militant training camps in the north-east of the country. A military spokesman Brig Gen Chris Olukolade said jets and helicopter gunships had been used to attack several camps. He said, two militant bases in the Sambisa Forest Reserve were...
A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the northern coast of Japan's main Honshu island today. No tsunami warning was issued and there were no immediate reports of damage. The United States Geological Survey said, the quake hit at 2:48 pm local time in the Pacific some 50 kilomet...