State and local official say a flood inside an underground West Virginia coal mine has trapped a miner inside, and rescue crews have been pumping water out to get to him
5 wounded, 1 seriously, in shooting outside San Francisco supermarket
Police are investigating after five people were wounded, one seriously, in a weekend shooting outside a supermarket in San Francisco
Man kills 3 co-workers at Texas business, then dies after shooting himself: Police
Authorities say a 21-year-old man shot and killed three co-workers at a San Antonio, Texas, landscape supply company and then died after shooting himself
Trump is hosting Syria’s al-Sharaa for a first-of-its-kind meeting at the White House
President Donald Trump is hosting Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa at the White House on Monday
Judge to ponder challenge to West Virginia National Guard deployment in the nation’s capital
A hearing in set in West Virginia over the deployment of the state National Guard to Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump’s crime-fighting efforts
Retired Australian teacher discovers the oldest fossil of its kind in southern hemisphere – and a new species
Robert Beattie, 82, has found specimens of a 151m-year-old midge that challenge what we know about how the insects evolved Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here As a boy, holidaying with his family in the New South Wales coastal town of Gerringong,...
Starwatch: the Leonids meteor shower reaches its peak
Wrap up warm, grab a deck chair and take your place to spot about 10-15 bright meteors an hour It is time again for one of the more reliable meteor showers of the year: the Leonids. Active between early November and early December, the shower experiences a sharp peak this...
‘They treat men like vending machines’: inside the hidden world of social media sperm selling
Parenthood can seem an impossible dream for many, and online sperm donor groups offer a solution, but they can be a murky world A man going by the name “Rod Kissme” claims to have “very strong sperm”. It may seem like an eccentric boast for a Facebook profile page, but then this...
James Watson obituary
Nobel prize-winning biologist whose discovery, with Francis Crick, of the structure of DNA solved the mystery of genetic inheritance James Watson, who has died aged 97, had an extraordinary gift for science, combined with ruthless ambition and an arrogant disregard for most of his peers. These combined qualities earned him...
Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts
Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists It has been an excellent year for neurotech, if you ignore the people funding it. In August, a tiny brain implant successfully decoded the inner speech of paralysis patients....