A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Katla Volcano, Iceland at a depth of 5.2 km (3.1 miles), the quake hit at 01:06:20 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011.
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Northern Xinjiang, China at a depth of just 1 km (0 miles), the quake hit at 02:26:01 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011.
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck the Reykjavik Ridge, Iceland at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 00:39:33 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Reykjavik Ridge, Iceland at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 00:03:04 UTC Thursday 6th October 2011.
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck the Reykjavik Ridge, Iceland at a depth of 10.1 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 23:52:20 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Reykjavik Ridge, Iceland at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 23:02:12 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011.
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck the Sumbawa Region, Indonesia at a depth of 118.9 km (73.9 miles), the quake hit at 22:54:47 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011.
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Apure, Venezuela at a depth of 8.9 km (5.5 miles), the quake hit at 20:20:50 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011.
UPDATE: Protestors in Los Angeles and New York are calling for supplies and labour reinforcements. If you are able to offer towels, non-meat foods or tents, please keep the supply chain going.
Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday threatened to set fire to the Middle East, and especially to Israel, if NATO attacks Syria, the Iranian Fars news agency reported.
Turkish lawmakers Wednesday voted to extend authorization for the Turkish military to carry out cross border attacks against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq.
The death toll from months of devastating floods in Thailand has risen to 237, authorities said Wednesday.
A suspected teenage burglar whose shorts fell down as he fled after being confronted last night on a Florida street was later arrested after a witness was able to identify him by his boxer shorts, police reported.
Two terrified divers were left stranded in shark-infested waters when their charter boat disappeared.
Already weary of high gas prices and 9.1 percent unemployment, many Americans are about to get another kick in the wallet thanks to large increases in their electricity bills.
Sesame Street has a new muppet who is hungry for more than just cookies.
Keith Olbermann, host of "Countdown" on Current TV: "Figuratively, where does it (Occupy Wall Street) go from here, do you think? Based upon your experience and what you've seen in your three trips down there."
Italy's sovereign debt rating has been cut for the second time in as many weeks, with ratings agency Moody's citing "sustained and non-cyclical erosion of confidence" as it slashed its forecast for the country.
A cold weather front took aim at Northern California Tuesday, packing a potent punch with as much as 10 inches of snow for the Sierra peaks, the earliest return of winter conditions to Tahoe since 1969, according to weather forecasters.
Stress has become the most common reason for a worker being signed off long-term sick, a report reveals today.
Europe's collective space agency is planning an ambitious space mission that would send a satellite nearly three-quarters of the way to the Sun.
irst lady Michelle Obama's family trip to South Africa and Botswana in June cost taxpayers well over $424,000, according to new accounting based on Air Force manifests obtained by Judicial Watch, a taxpayer watchdog group.
U.S. employers announced the most job cuts in more than two years in September, led by planned reductions at Bank of America Corp. (BAC) and in the military.
Service sector activity growth slowed in September, but other data on Wednesday showed private employment up modestly for the month, suggesting that overall the economic recovery is sluggish.
Scientists have, for the first time, found water like that found in the Earth's oceans on a comet. The new evidence strongly suggests that a significant portion of the Earth's seawater arrived as a result of collisions with ice-packed comets.
Astronomers at the University of Michigan found the comet Hartley 2 carries ice with the same chemical composition as our oceans.
"We were all surprised," said Professor Ted Bergin.
"Life would not exist on Earth without liquid water, so the questions of how and when the oceans got here is a fundamental one (sic)," he said.
"It's a big puzzle and these new findings are an important piece."
The scientists made the discovery with infrared instruments on the Hershel Space Observatory, a telescope which orbits 930,000 miles away from Earth.
They measured the ratio of hydrogen and deuterium - or heavy hydrogen - in the frozen water, and found it was the same as in seawater. Read More
Alzheimer's could in some cases be caused by an infection and the disease could even be contagious, scientists have claimed. The damage to the brain caused by the neurological condition is similar to that caused by infectious diseases such as mad cow and the human form CJD.
Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston were studying what could cause the build-up of proteins in the brain, which characterises the degenerative condition.
In tests on mice, they found that it occurs when a normal protein becomes misshapen and then spreads by turning 'good' proteins into bad ones. A similar process is seen in both mad cow disease and CJD. Read More
Greek riot police have fired teargas at petrol bomb throwing youths and charged them wielding batons as 10,000 public sector workers marched to protest against budget cuts and high taxes.The country is today in the grip of a 24-hour national strike which has seen flights grounded, schools shut and people on the streets trying to storm the Athens parliament of its bankrupt government.
Violence broke out as anarchists mixed with the marchers and started attacking more than 1,000 police with any weapons they could find.
This has been the first nationwide walkout in months and marked the start of what campaigners say is the culmination of two years of tax hikes and wage cuts.
In the chaos hospitals ran on emergency rotas and some state schools closed. Read More
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 85.5 km (53.1 miles), the quake hit at 15:02:35 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011.
EXPERTS are urging Territorians to be wary of snakes around their homes after reports of bites jumped in the Top End. Reptile wrangler Chris Peberdy said snakes were searching for water at the end of the dry season.
He said it was common to find snakes in houses - and even in beds.
"I've been finding snakes in (sliding door) runners, toilets, kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, all sorts of weird places," he said.
"At this time of year, they are looking for water to drink, because a lot of dams are dry, so they come into homes to find water.
"And females are looking for suitable areas to lay their eggs."
A large number of Western Brown snakes have already been recorded across the Top End.
Palmerston residents are living in the most at-risk area, followed by Karama - courtesy of the dump.
To avoid snake bites, Territorians are urged to:
WEAR covered footwear, gloves and long pants when in areas likely to be home to snakes.
USE a torch when moving around at night.
DO NOT try to catch or kill snakes.
KEEP your yard free from rubbish piles.
KEEP your property free from objects that snakes may hide in such as stacks of tin or wood piles.
KEEP your grass cut short and do not allow vegetation to grow close to your house.
If you are bitten:
APPLY a firm broad pressure bandage to the bite site and extend to the rest of the limb. Don't remove clothing from limb, just bandage over the top. Wrap it as tight as for a sprained ankle.
THE VICTIM should be kept very still and the limb should be immobilised by using a splint.
REASSURE the casualty and call 000 for an ambulance.
For snake removal in Darwin, call 1800 453 210, in Katherine call 0407 934 252 and in Alice Springs, call 0407 983 276. Source
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Crete, Greece at a depth of 28.5 km (17.7 miles), the quake hit at 14:41:28 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011.
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck Southern Xinjiang, China at a depth of 16.1 km (10 miles), the quake hit at 14:40:48 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011.
A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck Kyushu, Japan at a depth of 4.2 km (2.6 miles), the quake hit at 14:33:26 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011.
A U.N. inspector and two other people are being checked for radiation exposure after a "contamination incident" at a nuclear waste processing facility in Belgium, the U.N. atomic agency said on Wednesday. Belgian authorities say no radioactivity leaked into the environment after Tuesday afternoon's incident at the Belgoprocess facility in the northern municipality of Dessel, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.
"The inspector, accompanied by a EURATOM inspector and a Belgoprocess official, was conducting a routine inspection at the facility when the incident occurred," it said in a statement.
The three have undergone "external decontamination procedures" and medical checks and are now being assessed to determine the level of their exposure, the Vienna-based agency said.
"Belgian authorities have reported that the incident area has been sealed off and no radioactivity has been released to the environment," it added. "Decontamination of the facility is expected to begin soon."
Public fears about the safety of nuclear energy rose worldwide after the Fukushima power plant accident in Japan in March, the worst such disaster in 25 years.
Last month, a furnace exploded at the Marcoule nuclear waste treatment site in southern France, killing one person, but there was no leak of radioactive material outside the furnace, France's ASN nuclear safety watchdog said. Source
At least 100 people are sick and 18 have died after eating listeria-tainted cantaloupe in an ongoing food poisoning outbreak that has spread to 20 states, federal health officials reported Tuesday.
Europe's stronger economies should avoid imposing drastic budget cuts at the expense of growth, a report by the International Monetary Fund has said.
The UK economy grew by 0.1% between April and June, less than the 0.2% estimated previously.
Forty million smokers could die from TB by 2050, research suggests.
Ferries in Atlantic Canada remain docked Wednesday morning as a storm brings heavy rain and gusting winds into the region, knocking out power in some areas.
Parents should encourage children under 18 to limit the time they spend talking on cellphones, Health Canada said Tuesday in new advice on mobile phone usage.
Royal LePage says the Canadian real estate market is moderating in some areas, even as quarterly home prices increased once again.
For the first time in history, women are better educated, more ambitious and arguably more successful than men.
In today's world, it can be tough to determine whether products have or have not been produced through slavery. A specific component of a product – the cotton used to make a T-shirt, for example – may be the result of human trafficking. Thankfully, there are products in our lives that we know are slavery-free, like the homegrown tomato you had for lunch. (More: What is your slavery footprint?)
CNN iReport is inviting you to participate in a special assignment to identify items that you know are slavery-free. Was the exercise easy or surprisingly difficult? Do you make an effort to shop slavery-free, or is this the first time you've thought about where products come from?
Upload photos of your slavery-free items and share your perspective with CNN. The best stories will be featured here on the Freedom Project blog. You can check out the iReport assignment for additional details.
Want to find out more about slavery in the supply chain? Check out a brief overview or go to Anti-Slavery International's interactive map. source
Japan says it will hunt whales in the Southern Ocean this winter and will send a Fisheries Agency ship to guard its whalers against promised intervention by a conservation group.
China says it could be on the march to a trade war with the United States. That’s after the U.S. Senate on Monday passed a key test vote that targets countries believed to keep their currencies artificially weak.
It was once unthinkable but is now widely expected: Greece is headed toward default.
Bahraini opposition leaders, many sentenced to life in prison, are 12 days into a hunger strike dedicated to gaining the release of "innocent women and girls" from jail, the son of one of the leaders told CNN Wednesday.
Security forces in eastern Saudi Arabia clashed with armed people provoked by a "foreign country," the Saudi Press Agency said Tuesday, citing an official source at the Interior Ministry.
An armed man is on the run from police after shooting dead three Native Americans at a reservation near the site of General Custer's Last Stand.Sheldon Bernard Chase, 22, is thought to have gunned down an elderly woman, her granddaughter and the girl's boyfriend on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana before fleeing into the night.
The suspect, described by police as 'armed and extremely dangerous' gunned down the three people at the site a few miles south of the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.
The site in Montana marks the spot where Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his cavalry unit died fighting Indian forces in 1876.
The three victims were described as Indian tribal members, while the suspect is not. Read More
A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the North Island of New Zealand at a depth of 310 km (192.4 miles), the quake hit at 10:57:41 UTC Wednesday 5th October 2011.
