After being trapped in an illegal coal mine in #Meghalaya , northeast India, fifteen miners are feared dead. Authorities have suspended rescue operations due to unpowerful pumps needed to clear the flooding.
On Monday, a US District Court judge awarded $501 million (USD) in damages to the parents of #OttoWarmbier , the American student who died in 2017 after months in captivity by the North Korean government.
#Chinese authorities have said a knife-wielding man took the bus over and ran into traffic in Longyan, #Fujian Province. Authorities believe the man hijacked the bus after he argued with community officials.
Bad news for stargazers of the future: #Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum estimated rate predicted – and may be gone in the #cosmic blink of an eye (or roughly 100 million years).
Popular Android smartphones can be broken into by using a 3D printed head to get around facial recognition technology, according to a #Forbes report, revealing its limitations as a security measure.
Collapsed international accords only lead to poor relations between countries, #Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated, while still admitting that a major conflict is unlikely to happen.
The creation of Kosovo’s own 5,000-strong army is a threat to peace and security in a turbulent region and may lead to a new escalation, Russia’s UN envoy has warned, calling the EU’s lackluster response irresponsible. #KosovoArmy
#NASA has flown a probe closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever ventured before, capturing an incredible picture just 16.9 million miles from the surface of our star.
A 6.1-magnitude earthquake has struck some 1,000 kilometers off the coast of Perth, #Australia according to the US Geological Survey. The quake hit at a depth of 33 kilometers (20 miles).
Archeologists in #Egypt have unearthed an ancient tomb that belonged to a priest from the Fifth #Dynasty of the pharaohs in the pyramid complex of Saqqara, south of Cairo. Experts say the tomb is well-preserved.
Paris is bracing for yet another round of #YellowVest protests, with demonstrators planning to take to the streets on Saturday. More than 10,000 people have already RSVP'd on #Facebook to the ‘Acte 5: Macron Démission’ march.