A major 7.5-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of the South Pacific island of Vanuatu on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no immediate tsunami warning issued.

The quake struck

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck off Japan's northeast coast on Friday, triggering a tsunami warning, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said.

The quake, which swayed building

As international aid agencies scramble for donations for East Africa's famine victims, one multi-million-dollar fundraising drive has come from an unexpected source: a West African schoolboy.

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The country issued a red alert, the highest in its four-level high wave warning system for sea waves, on Saturday as the powerful phenomenon swept across the the East China Sea.

The East China Sea co

The death toll in the Philippines from tropical storm Nock-ten climbed to 41 on Friday, as millions of people across the main island of Luzon mopped up after a week of heavy rain, officials said.

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Four earthquakes with magnitudes ranging from 5 to 6.2 on the Richter Scale hit Philippines early on Tuesday, Xinhua reported.

The tremblors hit Philippines' Negros Occidental province, with the late

A huge dust storm has hit the US city of Phoenix in Arizona, blocking visibility and closing the state's largest airport, a media report said on Wednesday.

The 30-mile wide storm, one of the largest

A major fire broke out at a power sub-station near Rajghat in central Delhi on Sunday, officials said. No casualty was reported.

The incident took place at around 11.15 a.m. near the memorial to Maha

The top US nuclear research lab was ordered to stay closed on Tuesday after flames reached it and the local town began evacuating, though all high-risk materials were safe, officials said on Monday.

The toll from the magnitude-9 earthquake and ensuing tsunami which struck north-east Japan March 11 has risen to 15,500, police said on Sunday.

Another 7,306 people remain missing after the twin disa