Budhi Gandaki flood: Himalayan slope collapse released energy of a magnitude-3.5 quake
When the mountainside above Nepal’s Budhi Gandaki valley collapsed on 11 October, the jolt matched a small tremor of magnitude 3.5, Nepal’s geological survey has calculated in a first assessment.…
Atlanta teacher dies after being thrown from Six Flags coaster; nine similar rides shut
An Atlanta school employee has died after being flung from a ride at the Six Flags park outside the city, and the operator has pulled nine comparable rides in the…
Iran pushes tanker attacks past Hormuz in a bid to keep oil dear until the US midterms
Tehran has quietly changed the way it goes after merchant ships, and two senior Iranian officials are unusually candid about the motive: keeping crude expensive until Americans head to the…
Russian barrage leaves 600,000 Ukrainians without power days after Trump’s “energy ceasefire”
Less than three days after Donald Trump told the world that Moscow and Kyiv had agreed to stop hitting each other’s power systems, Ukraine woke on Wednesday to one of…
Peralta brings career-best heat as Rays punish Cleveland miscues to level the ALCS
One night after letting Game 1 slip away, Tampa Bay leaned on its starter and on Cleveland’s mistakes. The Rays beat the Guardians 3-1 at Tropicana Field on Tuesday, so…
Stripped to the bare essentials: a sea microbe with the tiniest archaeal genome ever found
Somewhere in the plankton off Japan’s Izu Peninsula drifts a cell that has thrown away almost everything except the ability to copy itself. Researchers from Japan’s University of Tsukuba, Britain’s…
Pope Leo XIV’s surgery goes smoothly, but tests confirm an early lung cancer
The Vatican’s late-night bulletin on Tuesday carried two messages at once. The operation on Pope Leo XIV went exactly as planned, with no complications. And the growth his doctors had…
Minority schools law unlocks two new chapters of Ukraine’s EU membership talks
A law about classrooms in Ukraine’s far west has opened the door to the next phase of Kyiv’s bid to join the European Union. On Tuesday, ministers meeting in Luxembourg…
Missile sets Aramco office tower ablaze after Saudi jets hit fuel depot in Sanaa
For the first time since Yemen’s war reignited in July, the Saudi-led coalition told civilians in Sanaa to clear out before an air raid. Within hours the Houthis had answered…
Guardians flip ALCS Game 1 in Tampa, rally past Rays 7-3
Cleveland arrived in Florida already riding a playoff hot streak and left with a series edge. Trailing early at Tropicana Field, the Guardians finished four runs clear of Tampa Bay…