LONDON, Oct. 15 -- In Chad, more than half of adults say a disaster has hit them in the past five years, and only 42 percent of those people were warned beforehand, the lowest rate among the 13 countr... Read More
HAMPTON, Oct. 15 -- NASA says small prototype batteries have worked down to minus 80 degrees Celsius in a vacuum chamber, which is still 120 degrees warmer than the night at the Moon's South Pole. Th... Read More
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 -- Several hundred U.S. Army soldiers are heading to Latin America for jungle and partner-force training, the clearest sign yet that a drug-trafficking campaign that has killed mor... Read More
COLOMBO, Oct. 15 -- Saudi Arabia's Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence given to a Sri Lankan man over a Facebook comment about the Prophet Muhammad, Sri Lanka's deputy foreign minister sai... Read More
JERUSALEM, Oct. 15 -- Forty-six years after the UN Security Council told governments to take their embassies out of Jerusalem, Colombia opened one there on Wednesday, the tenth country to do so. Fore... Read More
LONDON, Oct. 15 -- HSBC's Islamic Global Equity Index Fund, described by Middle East Eye as the UK's largest "sharia-compliant" fund, holds roughly $130 million in five companies the outlet links to I... Read More
LISBON, Oct. 15 -- Portugal will keep 50.1 percent of TAP Air Portugal and hand the running of the airline to Lufthansa, the government announced on Wednesday, choosing the German group over Air Franc... Read More
CAMBRIDGE, Oct. 15 -- A radio shape once mistaken for a pulsar appears to be the afterglow of a black hole's old outburst, revived by a collision between two galaxy clusters hidden behind the Milky Wa... Read More
KINSHASA, Oct. 15 -- Cholera killed 86 people in Congo in a single week, up from 62 the week before, while an Ebola outbreak that has now killed 4,381 runs alongside it. The World Health Organization... Read More
TEL AVIV, Oct. 15 -- Israel signed on Wednesday for 12 Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters that are not due until the early 2030s, according to Israeli media as relayed by Arab News. The Defense ... Read More