Miami — A small plane carrying four family members flying back home to Florida went missing off the Bahamas on Monday, the U.S. Coast Guard and authorities in the Bahamas said. The plane took off from Great Harbour Cay and was heading to Miami Executive Airport in Miami-Dade County, Bahamas police said in a statement….
The wall of ice, water and rock that tore through Nepal last week has claimed more than 1,200 lives and left more than 4,000 missing, depriving many grieving families of a basic rite: funerals. The scale of the disaster has proved challenging for authorities, with morgues overwhelmed by a large number of unidentified remains. In…
One person has died and 15 remain missing or unaccounted for after flash flooding swept through parts of the Grand Canyon, the National Park Service (NPS) has said. The flood hit Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area on Saturday afternoon, wiping out footbridges and propelling boulders downstream. The body of a 46-year-old man…
The death toll from Wednesday’s devastating flash floods in Nepal and along the border with China has risen to nearly 700, with around 3,000 people still missing, as rescue operations entered their fourth day. The combined toll in Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region in China, rose to 691 dead and over 3,000 people missing…
Rescue teams were searching for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border Thursday after a catastrophic, deadly torrent of floods and mud swept through several communities a day earlier following a glacial collapse. The head of Nepal’s tourism board told CBS News Thursday that 65 U.S. nationals were among those missing in the wake…
At least 160 people were killed in Nepal and more than 400, most of them foreigners, were listed as missing on Wednesday after flash flooding tore through valleys in the Himalayan country’s northern border areas, according to authorities. The flash floods decimated villages, slamming into houses, roads, bridges and power plants. Videos broadcast by regional…
Explanations of why Africa has lagged behind tend to reach for the familiar: weak governance, corruption, ethnic conflict, the legacy of colonial borders. Joe Studwell’s How Africa Works — the long-awaited companion to his influential How Asia Works — argues that these are largely symptoms rather than causes, and that the deeper constraint has been…
Obsidian Systems’ Smarter.tech ’26 brought enterprise technology leaders and practitioners together online to tackle a question that gets harder to answer with every new platform launch: what does working smarter actually mean for organisations already carrying complex infrastructure and stretched teams, and now under pressure to adopt AI responsibly? The answer that ran through the…
Kumamoto, Japan — Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 18 people in southwestern Japan. The powerful earthquake that hit a day earlier in the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of Kyushu, also left…
A friend of the American woman who went missing while vacationing on the Caribbean island of Grenada said there is video that shows her last known movements. Elizabeth Waddell was last seen July 22 on Grand Anse Beach in Grenada’s capital city, St. George’s. Waddell’s friend and the family spokesperson, Amanda Romano-Harmon, said the Royal…
