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Radiation is an odourless, invisible killer, with the potential to surge through the body and tear it apart on a cellular level, irreversibly damaging DNA.When reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded in April…

An earthquake swarm has broken out in Northern California and experts fear it's almost certain the region will suffer a major disaster by 2043.The US Geological Survey (USGS) recorded dozens of small earthquakes in a region known as The…

By JAMES COHEN, SPORTS REPORTER Published: 20:43 EST, 24 December 2025 | Updated: 08:49 EST, 25 December 2025 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- …

US monitoring stations that protect millions living along the West Coast from devastating natural disasters are set to go dark in just two weeks.Funding has been cut for nine seismic stations in Alaska, which act as an early warning…

Josh Hazlewood succumbs to hamstring injury By JOSH ALSTON, SPORTS REPORTER Published: 23:25 EST, 14 November 2025 | Updated: 23:46 EST, 14 November 2025 <!-- --> <!-- …

By TARYN KAUR PEDLER, FOREIGN NEWS REPORTER Published: 05:19 EDT, 16 September 2025 | Updated: 09:12 EDT, 16 September 2025 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- …

A cycle race ended in disaster when a police motorcyclist cut across the road as competitors sprinted to the finishing line - causing a massive crash.Shocking footage shows how athletes were sent flying into the air during the pile-up…

The British sole survivor of the Air India crash has still not returned to his wife and son in the UK, as he continues to grieve his brother, who was killed in the tragedy three months ago.Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, 40, from Leicester, was…

The Lisbon funicular crash death toll has risen to 17 after the city's famous Elevador da Glória tram derailed and crashed into a building on Wednesday evening, authorities said today.Twenty-three people were injured, and two of them…

SpaceX earned a much-needed win on Tuesday with the successful launch of its Starship rocket following a series of failures that ended in disaster. The 403-foot-tall rocket blasted off from Starbase - SpaceX's launch site in South Texas…