Category: 4. World

Corals at UNESCO World Heritage area Ningaloo reef have suffered from mass bleaching as part of what scientists call a “marine heatwave”.

The coral harbours a massive amount of biodiversity and protects shores from extreme weather – so can…

China’s two biggest networks have deployed less than 1 percent of their planned satellites, records show, a measure of how far they are falling behind Elon Musk’s company SpaceX for dominance in space communications.

Satellites in low Earth…

Columbia University has agreed to pay $221 million to the federal government in a deal to settle the investigations into the school’s campus and restore federal funding, it announced on Wednesday.

This includes a payment of $200 million over…

The U.S. is on the brink of exiting the top 10 in an annual ranking of the world’s most powerful passports for the first time in the index’s 20-year history.

American passports fell to a 10th place tie, jointly held by Iceland and Lithuania,…

Air India Flight AI 171 was airborne for just 32 seconds on June 12 before disaster struck. But the key to unlocking what brought down Boeing Co.’s most advanced jetliner may lie in a chilling 10-second gap buried in the crash probe’s…