An independent assessment of an abandoned copper mine formerly owned by Rio Tinto on the South Pacific island of Bougainville found risks from unstable buildings, a potential for landslides, and ...
The Nicaraguan dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and his “co-president” and wife, Rosario Murillo, this week kidnapped and ...
As a member of the Panguna Mine Legacy Impact Assessment (PMLIA) Oversight Committee, Rio Tinto today welcomed the release of the PMLIA report as a critical step forward in building understanding of ...
The life of billions of people inhabiting Earth is owed to a temporary organ that supported and nourished them in a mother's ...
Anders Breivik killed eight people with a bomb in Oslo's government district in 2011 and then shot a further 69 people on the ...
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake off the coast of California has sparked a tsunami warning for San Francisco and surrounds.
Transparency International PNG says a planned forestry development in Western Province appears to have got the go-ahead with ...
Sierra Leone on Thursday started injecting the first of thousands of frontline workers with a preventive Ebola vaccine, a ...
From that ugly truth, Nyoni makes something strange and restlessly ambitious — a tale of secrets loosed at the funeral rite that frames the story, where priggish family members size up the dead man’s ...
The African country of Sierra Leone is set to begin its rollout of the Ebola vaccine, 10 years after a historic outbreak of the virus.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-led research demonstrates that an oral antiviral drug, 4′-fluorouridine (4′-FlU), ...
Top military official Miao Hua is under investigation, China's defense industry said last week, but speculation about Dong Jun has not been confirmed.