A-list Hollywood celebrities including Cate Blanchett, Joaquin Phoenix, Ramy Youssef and Andrew Garfield penned a letter to US President Joe Biden on Friday, urging him to call for a ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas.Dozens of top-flight names fro...

By AFPForest fires have killed 24 people, injured nearly 1,000 and destroyed 800 homes in five days as a blistering heat wave grips south-central Chile, authorities said Sunday.Fueled by strong winds and temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius (104...

The “eternal” flames of Baba Gurgur have been burning for thousands of years. Baba Gurgur was thought to be the world's largest oil field before the Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia was discovered in 1948.HistoryFirst discovered in northern Iraq in 1927,...

In the end, it was Mother Nature that extinguished a wildfire that scorched thousands of acres and forced the evacuation of villages in the north of divided Cyprus, officials said Saturday.Aircraft from both sides of Cyprus, as well as British milita...

Officials at the Bangladeshi city of Sitakunda said on Sunday that a massive fire at a container depot killed at least 37 people and injured more than 100, reported AFP.Local firefighters are struggling to put the fire out at BM Inland Container Depo...