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Undersea search for MH370 to expand: Australia
Apr 28, 2014 (AFP)
Australia's prime minister Monday announced an expanded search across a huge swathe of seabed where Flight MH370 might have crashed seven weeks ago, admitting i...
Video shows S. Korea ferry captain escape sinking ship
Apr 28, 2014 (AFP)
South Korea's coastguard Monday released a video showing the trouserless captain of a sinking ferry scrambling to safety as hundreds remained trapped inside -- ...
China Considers Russian Satellite-Based Emergency Response System
Apr 25, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
Chinese officials have expressed interest in participating in a Russian emergency response system, the CEO of Russia's Navigation Information Systems told RIA N...
Network evaluation tools to assess relief operations in disaster-struck regions
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction reported that disasters have affected around 2.9 billion people worldwide from 2000-2012- killing more tha...
Taiwan typhoon victims lose compensation suit
Apr 25, 2014 (AFP)
A Taiwanese court on Friday rejected a group compensation claim filed by victims of a deadly typhoon in 2009 against local authorities for alleged negligence. A...
No Everest summits likely this season: expedition official
Apr 25, 2014 (AFP)
The Everest climbing season will probably be called off this year following last week's avalanche that killed 16 sherpas, an organisation representing Nepalese ...
Australia plans to widen fruitless MH370 search
Apr 25, 2014 (AFP)
Australian authorities said Friday they would widen the underwater hunt for missing flight MH370, as the deep-sea search for wreckage at the suspected crash sit...
Guides, climbers prepare to leave Everest
Apr 24, 2014 (AFP)
Scores of Nepalese guides and foreign climbers on Mount Everest packed up Thursday, loading supplies onto yaks and booking helicopters, with the climbing season...
Searchers face tough choices in hunt for MH370
Apr 24, 2014 (AFP)
Searchers for missing Flight MH370 face tough choices on how to proceed after almost seven fruitless weeks, with only a fraction of a deep-sea zone still left t...
Australia says cost not a concern in MH370 search
Apr 23, 2014 (AFP)
Australia said Wednesday cost was not a concern in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, after the mini-submarine plumbing the depths of the Indian Oce...
Cancellations on Everest amid talks to save climbing season
Apr 23, 2014 (AFP)
Nepal's government strove Wednesday to save the Everest climbing season from an unprecedented walkout by sherpa guides as another major mountaineering company a...
Death toll in US landslide rises to 41
Apr 22, 2014 (AFP)
The death toll from a devastating landslide in the western US state of Washington has risen to 41 with the discovery of two more bodies Monday, officials said. ...
Cyclone curtails aerial search for MH370
Apr 22, 2014 (AFP)
The aerial search for missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 was suspended Tuesday due to a tropical cyclone, but not before several aircraft had departed on t...
Ant colonies help evacuees in disaster zones
Apr 22, 2014 (SPX)
An escape route mapping system based on the behavior of ant colonies could give evacuees a better chance of reaching safe harbor after a natural disaster or ter...
Everest guides abandon climbing season after deadly avalanche
Apr 22, 2014 (AFP)
Nepalese guides on Mount Everest said Tuesday they would abandon this year's climbing season to honour 16 colleagues killed in an avalanche last week, throwing ...
Guides, climbers cancel Everest expeditions after tragedy
Apr 21, 2014 (AFP)
Distraught Nepalese guides and climbers cancelled expeditions on Mount Everest Monday after at least 13 colleagues died in an avalanche, as anger mounted at poo...
S. Korea prosecutors turn to mobile app for ferry probe
Apr 21, 2014 (AFP)
Prosecutors probing South Korea's ferry disaster have turned to a popular mobile chat service to reconstruct the final moments of hundreds feared to have perish...
President says ferry crew's actions 'tantamount to murder'
Apr 21, 2014 (AFP)
The captain and crew of a South Korean ferry that capsized with hundreds of children on board acted in a way "tantamount to murder," President Park Geun-Hye sai...
Researchers use Twitter to predict crime
Apr 20, 2014 (AFP)
Hidden in the Twittersphere are nuggets of information that could prove useful to crime fighters -- even before a crime has been committed. Researchers at the U...
Nepal calls off search for missing guides on Everest: official
Apr 20, 2014 (AFP)
Nepal Sunday called off the search for local guides still missing after the deadliest accident on Mount Everest killed 13 colleagues, as climbers recalled the t...
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