A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck Tonga at a depth of 192.4 km (119.6 miles), the quake hit at 03:08:01 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck the South Sandwich Islands Region at a depth of 18.6 km (11.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:57:49 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck the Tonga Region at a depth of 42.8 km (26.6 miles), the quake hit at 02:14:24 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012
A magnitude 4.3 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:31:04 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Oaxaca, Mexico at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 01:13:25 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012
A magnitude 5.1 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 57.2 km (35.5 miles), the quake hit at 00:20:40 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck the North Indian Ocean at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:12:27 UTC Monday 23rd April 2012
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Central Peru at a depth of 112.8 km (70.1 miles), the quake hit at 23:45:57 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Nicobar Islands, India Region at a depth of 39.5 km (24.5 miles), the quake hit at 23:05:09 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Celebes Sea at a depth of 591.3 km (367.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:41:31 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Astronomers say a loud explosion heard across a large swath of Nevada and California on Sunday morning was likely caused by a meteor.
TOKYO (AFP) - A blast at a chemical plant in western Japan killed one worker and injured at least fifteen others on Sunday, police said.
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck Jalisco, Mexico at a depth of 85.7 km (53.3 miles), the quake hit at 18:12:09 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck LA PAZ, Bolivia at a depth of 155.6 km (96.7 miles), the quake hit at 18:04:54 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
East London - Ambulances were bringing 67 children with suspected food poisoning from Chintsa to medical facilities in East London on Saturday afternoon, Eastern Cape health authorities said.
French Socialist Francois Hollande has won most votes in the first round of the country's presidential election, early estimates say.
A man from London has died after falling from a balcony at a hotel in Magaluf - the second Briton to die at the Spanish resort in three days.
A 68-year-old woman has died of injuries she sustained when two trains collided head-on in Amsterdam, injuring scores of passengers.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck the Kepulauan Tanimbar Region, Indonesia at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 15:37:32 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
A Russian oligarch and one of the world's richest men has been forced to admit he regularly paid members of organised crime gangs.
Tehran (CNN) -- Iran declared Sunday it has "cracked the codes" of the intelligence gathering system of a U.S. spy drone it captured last year for violating its airspace, the nation's semiofficial media reported.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Hokkaido, Japan at a depth of 176 km (109.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:13:51 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck West of the Macquarie Island at a depth of 9.8 km (6.1 miles), the quake hit at 13:11:19 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Sunda Strait, Indonesia at a depth of 8 km (5 miles), the quake hit at 13:04:15 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has struck West of the Macquarie Island at a depth of 10.2 km (6.3 miles), the quake hit at 12:20:46 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck the Solomon Islands at a depth of 39.2 km (24.4 miles), the quake hit at 11:44:37 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake has struck near Christchurch, New Zealand at a depth of 11.3 km (7 miles), the quake hit at 10:08:53 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 24.5 km (15.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:45:23 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has told the eurozone it must make bold reforms to reassure financial markets.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck the Southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 09:19:00 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has struck South of the Kermadec Islands at a depth of 235.4 km (146.3 miles), the quake hit at 09:17:14 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
A magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck Vancouver Island, Canada Region at a depth of 11.6 km (7.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:36:20 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
The International Monetary Fund, armed with a replenished arsenal containing billions of dollars to battle Europe's lingering debt crisis, now must press governments in the eurozone to carry out bold changes to reassure nervous financial markets and avert sending the crisis into a more dangerous phase.
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck the Iran-Iraq Border Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 08:13:55 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Guatemala at a depth of 67 km (41.6 miles), the quake hit at 08:07:49 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
(Reuters) - Fifteen people were killed and at least one seriously wounded in a suspected drug-related shootout on Friday in a bar in northern Mexico, a region that has been brutalized by fighting between criminal gangs.
(Reuters) - The United States believes a Chinese firm sold North Korea components for a missile transporter showcased in a recent military parade and will press Beijing to tighten enforcement of a U.N. ban on such military sales, a U.S. official said on Saturday.
(CNN) -- Eight American soldiers died of overdoses involving heroin, morphine or other opiates during deployments in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011, according to U.S. Army investigative reports.
(CNN) -- A French official of the International Committee of the Red Cross was kidnapped Saturday in western Yemen, an ICRC spokeswoman said.
(CNN) -- Chinese and Russian warships began six-day joint naval exercises Sunday in the Yellow Sea, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
A magnitude 4.1 earthquake has struck Northern Iran at a depth of 6 km (3.7 miles), the quake hit at 06:38:56 UTC Sunday 22nd April 2012
DAMASCUS: Syria has said it was ready to facilitate UN monitors, but stressed that a majority of them should be from "neutral countries" like BRICS, which also includes India.
Chinese government hackers are believed to be behind a crippling cyber attack on a US-based website that revealed how British businessman Neil Heywood was killed with cyanide on the orders of the wife of a Communist Party leader.
In recent months celebrities and politicians have rushed to join the thousands of media savvy ‘pinning’ on the web’s latest hit social network.
A murder investigation has been launched into the death of a teenager believed to have been shot outside a pub.
A weapons expert who worked with Dr David Kelly at the Government’s secret chemical warfare laboratory has been found dead in an apparent suicide.
An Iraqi Muslim cleric suspected of being involved with Al Qaeda and radicalising young Britons has used the Human Rights Act to continue to live in the UK – despite Government efforts to deport him.Note: How many Innocent people will have to die before Human Rights starts being applied to non criminals?
European human rights judges have been accused of ‘alerting’ radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada to the fact he still had time to lodge a last-ditch appeal against deportation.
MI5 betrayed enemies of Colonel Gaddafi given refuge in Britain in a covert joint operation with Libyan spies working on UK soil, documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday reveal.
There were no immediate reports of fatalities, but of those injured, 13 suffered major injuries while 43 or 44 were badly injured, a spokesman said.
Doctors are battling to save the sight of a senior British diplomat who was mugged while walking through a cemetery in west London.
