Hurricane Lala battered Hawaii’s Big Island with powerful winds and torrential rain on Saturday (August 15), knocking out power to more than 42,000 customers and prompting warnings of potentially life-threatening flooding and mudslides.
A powerful magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Indonesia’s North Sumatra province on Saturday (August 16), hours after a deadly 7.7-magnitude quake hit the country’s eastern Flores region.
The prolonged deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln has raised growing concerns over the mental health and wellbeing of nearly 5,000 US sailors aboard the aircraft carrier, which has spent more than 250 consecutive days at sea amid ongoing US military operations in the Middle East.
A Bangladeshi expatriate has won Dh100,000 in the consolation prize draw of the 289th series of the UAE’s Big Ticket lottery.
Iran and Oman have reached an agreement on a new shipping route map for the Strait of Hormuz aimed at ensuring safer maritime navigation, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said Saturday.
An Indian man from Pune has earned a place in Guinness World Records after growing the five fingernails on his left hand for 66 years, with their combined length reaching nearly 30 feet.