The death toll from last week’s explosion at the Beirut port has risen to 171, outgoing Lebanese Health Minister Hassan Hamad said Tuesday. Speaking after his meeting with WHO emergency official Rick Brennan, Hamad told reporters that "the number of missing people ranges between 30 and...

Alphabet Inc's Google's Android phones Tuesday started detecting earthquakes around the world to provide data that could eventually give billions of users precious seconds of warning of a tremor nearby, with an alerting feature first rolling out in California. Japan, Mexico and California...

At least two explosions have hit convoys supplying US-led coalition forces in Iraq in the last 24 hours, security sources said, the first Monday evening near the southern border with Kuwait and the second Tuesday north of Baghdad. The explosions, which caused no casualties but did some...

Chemical experts and firefighters are working to secure at least 20 potentially dangerous chemical containers at the explosion-shattered port of Beirut, after finding one that was leaking, according to a member of a French cleanup team. Some of the containers were punctured when last...