Day: August 15, 2011

Tropical Storm Gert is predicted to skirt Bermuda Monday before veering northeast into the open Atlantic Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Japan’s nuclear safety agency will be placed under the control of the country’s Environment Ministry, a top government official announced Monday in a move stemming from the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

Syrian security forces backed by gunships killed at least 25 people in a crackdown on anti-government protesters in the flashpoint port city of Latakia that entered its third day, opposition groups told CNN Monday.

Bridgetown. Commissioner of Police, Darwin Dottin, today told Barbadians not to panic despite an increase in violent crime across the island.  In his opening remarks at a press conference held…

Police investigators took Anders Behring Breivik, accused of killing dozens of people at a youth retreat last month in Norway, back to Utoya island to help reconstruct the shooting rampage, authorities said.

The flow of oil leaking from a North Sea oil platform east of Aberdeen, Scotland, has been “greatly reduced,” and no oil is expected to reach land, the British Department of Energy and Climate Change and a Shell official said Monday.