BP has already announced its claimed victory Wednesday in the company’s effort to permanently seal its blown-out well. The government reported that much of the spilled oil is already gone though there is still about five times the amount of oil from that which poured from the Exxon Valdez. It’s already been three months since [...]

Hundreds of villages in Pakistan’s main province of Punjab was ravaged by flood waters Wednesday. The flood destroyed homes, crops and has threatened lives of the people living in the province. Rescue workers warned that rivers would soon surge into the country’s south and will result into more evacuations. Monsoon season of the current year [...]

U.S. President Barack Obama express its pledge to halt combat operations in Iraq by the end of this month. The decision made Iraqis fear that the withdrawal could mean a surge in violence. Reports has shown that violence in Iraq has lowered down since the peak of the conflict in 2006-2007. However, bombings and skirmishes [...]

Crews were hoping to begin pumping mud or cement down the opening of the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday. BP officials said that the method they are planning to use might be the solution to finally put a halt to the spill. Engineers has already planned to [...]

The failure of a climate bill to pass in the U.S. Senate is deemed to affect international talks that will begin Monday about a new agreement to control global warming Climate activists said that the  Senate’s decision to strike the bill from its immediate agenda has caused distrust among poor countries about the true intentions [...]

Two Emergency spacewalks are being prepared by NASA in an effort to repair the International Space station after the unexpected shutdown of its cooling system last Saturday forcing astronauts to shut down several systems. American astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson are expected to perform the two repair spacewalks and is planned to begin [...]

President Barack Obama has announced Monday that the nation will be changing the course of its mission in Iraq as the U.S. military prepares to end its combat operations there. In his speech at the national convention of the Disabled American Veterans in Atlanta,  Obama was to direct their efforts in the progress being made [...]

More than 800 people were confirmed dead due to flooding in Pakistan as declared Saturday by a government official. Waterborne diseases has also spread amongst evacuees and rescuers are still trying to reach the other victims of the flood. The flood, caused by heavy rainfalls, has wrecked havoc in the past week. Officials said the [...]

Grey sky is looming as firefighters tried to subdue the flames in the hills northeast of Los Angeles Friday as residents of about 1,000 homes waited to see if the wildfire is kept away. The incident has burned at least three buildings and homes in Leona Valley. Residents in Anaverde were also evacuated from their [...]

A passenger jet, with 152 people on board, crashed into the hills near Pakistan’s capital amid poor weather condition. The authorities reported no survivors of the crash. Rescuers battled fires and muddy soil as they searched for survivors in the hillside where the flight went down. It was a tragic scene as described by Imtiaz [...]