Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

A single underwater cable the size of a garden hose connected Tonga to the outside world—until a natural disaster struck. And ...

On retirement from public life, Wilmar Eliaser Simandjorang found a quiet place on a hillside overlooking Lake Toba, on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, to write about this landscape sacred to the ...

The volcano erupted for around nine minutes, forcing the highest-level alert and the evacuation of dozens of people from ...

Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, is erupting for a second straight day, spewing towering ...

When your phone buzzed last spring and you checked your notifications to find that the Las Vegas Raiders struck a deal with the Seattle Seahawks to acquire veteran quarterback Geno Smith, you probably ...

The TV ratings and viewership data are in for the Oct. 1 episode of AEW Dynamite, its special 6 year anniversary broadcast. Per Wrestlenomics, Dynamite netted 465,000 viewers and a 0.09 rating in the ...

An inquest heard on Friday of lifelong injuries and years of grief from survivors and family members of those who died in a ...

There were very few positives to take from the Washington Commanders' disastrous Week 4 road loss against the Atlanta Falcons. But there were a couple of shining lights amid the doom and gloom. The ...

North Carolina has requested federal funds that would cover almost half of the estimated damage caused in the state by Hurricane Helene. But less than 10% of that money has been awarded or received — ...