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  • Drought and Storm Ignites California Wildfire, Officials Say

    The wildfires in the recently devastated part of Northern California are believed to have been started by an abandoned campfire. Authorities are looking into this and investigations are underway. Weather experts, on the other hand, are zeroing in on the possibility that the lightning storms that ...

  • Diabetes Complications More Severe Among Poor Californians, Study Shows

    Low income California residents who are affected by diabetes are 10 times more likely to undergo amputations than patients belonging to middle and upper class. This was the result of a study released researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). Such result has “serious ...

  • SpaceX Blasts Commercial Satellite into Orbit

    Early Tuesday morning, SpaceX successfully launched yet another highly advanced commercial satellite into orbit aboard its Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket, carrying AsiaSat 8 telecommunications satellite, soared into space at 4:00 a.m. from SpaceX’s Florida launch pad, the Cape Canaveral Air Forces ...

  • Hawaii Braces for Two Cyclones

    Hawaii is known for many things, but it definitely isn’t known as an area frequently visited by tropical cyclones. The past few days, however, residents were caught up in unexpected news as two cyclones, hurricane Iselle and storm Julio, are set for the group of Hawaiian Islands. Weather experts ...

  • Mudslides Ravage Parts of California, Leaving 1 Dead and Thousands Stranded

    Torrential rain brought about by thunderstorms has caused some areas of southern California to be run down by mudslides, leaving thousands displaced and stranded, and one dead. Forest Falls and Oak Glen were the two towns mainly damaged by the reported landslide, disrupting roads and accessibility, ...

  • Back Injury Causes a Major Setback for Tiger Woods in 2014

    “I just jarred it and it’s been spasming ever since,” Tiger Woods explained to PGA Tour officials, as he was constrained to pull out from the WGC-Bridgstone Invitational held in Ohio because of his back injury. He noticed the sensation early in the game but pushed through until midway through his ...

  • Transparency Sought Over Toledo Water Ban Issue

    “Water is safe,” was the reassuring pronouncement of Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins as the ban on water consumption has finally been lifted throughout the county. The ban, imposed last Saturday, practically left some 500,000 residents of this part of northwest Ohio exposed to water not safe for ...

  • U.S. Commits to Invest $14 Billion in Africa

    “The world chose to speed things up leaving Africa as mere spectators to global economy. This pledge is a game changer, it will wake the largely untapped sleeping giant that is Africa,” remarked one economist about the recent assertion US government made regarding its investment for Africa.

  • Glasgow Remembers the Great War a Century After

    A century ago today, the world witnessed 37 million lives suffer untimely demise. A century ago today, the world was at war. Many considered the war as the deadliest conflict to face humankind. It was World War I. The world today remembers the tragedy that was World War I by honoring countless ...
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