The New Zealand government has said that the oil spill being produced from a cargo ship that is stranded off the countries coast line could be the worst environmental disaster that the country has experienced in decades.
The Rena 775ft cargo ship is said to have run aground just off the Port of [...]
Officials in India for the telecom regulator have said that new rules are going to be put into place that will limit the amount of text messages that will be allowed to be sent from a single mobile phone.
The rules are being brought in to counter the amount of text messages that [...]
As Tropical Storm Irene moves ever more northward and starts to unleash it’s devastating power on the north-east of Canada the states affected by the storm now look to clearing up the damage that has been done.
It is understood that at least 28 people have been killed as a direct result of the storm [...]
Residents of the eastern states of the US are rapidly preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Irene which some weather experts have said is similar in size to that of Europe and according to President Obama has the real possibility of being an “historic” storm.
The slow moving hurricane is moving northwards from the Caribbean [...]
World stock markets reacted badly today towards the inability of President Obama and top Republican in Congress, John Boehner, to come to some agreement about raising the US debt ceiling.
Fridays meeting between the two has followed weeks of talks involving the Republicans and Democrats to try and come to some solution [...]
Just after 9pm local time this evening a 2.9 magnitude earthquake hit 7 miles east of Auckland at a depth of only 5 miles. The earthquake was felt widely across buildings in the CBD and in other central suburbs as thousands of people posted reports on the GeoNet website that records seismic activity throughout [...]
Three big earthquakes have happened in Christchurch, New Zealand over the last 9 months, killing 181 people and leaving many thousands homeless. The aftershocks are relentless and continue throughout the day and night. In the last week, there has been an acceleration of tremors, with the last 24 hours seeing over 25 aftershocks of [...]
According to public health experts and researchers the strain of E. coli that has killed 17 people in Germany and one person in Sweden has also affected over 1,500 more and is believed to be a completely new form of the bacterium possibly originating as a new variant of a rare [...]
The source of the lethal E.coli strain that has broken out on the population of Germany is still mystifying researchers as their original suspicions of Spanish cucumbers has turned out to be incorrect.
The deadly strain of the disease has already affected 470 people who have been admitted to hospital suffering from [...]
Following the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan in March the Japanese government have announced a disaster relief emergency budget of 4 trillion yen (£29.6 billion) which could be brought into use this May subject to approval by their parliament who will debate the matter within the next 7 [...]
