The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there is no tsunami threat to Guam or the Northern Marianas from an earthquake in the Vanuatu Islands. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded an earthquake ...

A law averted a government shutdown last week but did not include President-elect Donald Trump’s demand to raise or suspend the debt limit.

Colombo, Dec 26 (PTI) With a two minutes silence observed nationally, Sri Lanka on Thursday marked the 20th anniversary of the South Asian Tsunami that had killed over 30,000 in the island nation. Sri ...

COLOMBO: Twenty years after the massive Indian Ocean tsunami wreaked havoc on Sri Lanka, some survivors are still trying to pick up the pieces. Those living in poorly-constructed settlements ...

Tearful mourners prayed on Thursday as ceremonies were held across Asia to remember the 220,000 people who were killed two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the Indian Ocean in one ...

Banda Aceh, Indonesia—Tearful mourners prayed on Thursday as ceremonies were held across Asia to remember the 220,000 people who were killed two decades ago when a tsunami hit coastlines around the ...

Survivors and families of victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami 20 years ago visited mass graves, lit candles and comforted one another across Southeast and South Asia in ceremonies on Thursday to ...

The tsunami generated by a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's western island of Sumatra carried in its path a wall of debris including boats, cars, and bodies. Some, like lecturer Reza ...

The resulting tsunami unleashed waves more than 100 feet high and as fast as an airliner. Within hours, the tsunami had claimed nearly 230,000 human lives and displaced millions of people in 12 ...

Survivors and victims’ relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which killed more than 220 000 people across more than a dozen countries.

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one of ...

Twenty years on from the Boxing Day tsunami, a Red Cross director has remembered how the disaster sent shockwaves across Sri Lanka. Dr Mahesh Gunasekara was working as director of the 200-bed ...