Sources: Reuters via TV New Zealand
One of two U.S. National Guard troops who were shot in Washington, D.C., a day earlier dies. 2025-11-27
The death toll from an overnight tornado outbreak in the U.S. states of Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas increases to 15. 2024-05-26
Scientists from the University of Western Australia announce that a seagrass meadow of the species "Posidonia australis" covering 200 sqkm, approximately three times the size of Manhattan, found off of Western Australia's Shark Bay, actually belongs to one plant, making it the largest known plant on Earth. 2022-06-1
Ahead of an expected U.S. announcement that it will cut all aid to the UNRWA, which supports more than 5 million registered Palestinian refugees, Germany calls on European Union states to help bridge the expected US$217 million deficit. Yesterday, Jordan made a similar appeal to the Arab League. 2018-08-31
Iran threatens to close the Strait of Hormuz to shipping if the U.S. re-applies sanctions to the country after the U.S.withdrew from the JCPOA deal earlier in the year. 2018-07-5
A shooting at a barbershop in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. kills 2 people and injures 7 others. 2013-11-6
A shooting spree in Dallas, Texas, U.S., kills 4, wounds 4 and the gunman is subsequently arrested. 2013-08-8
A bombing in Qalat, capital of the southern Zabul Province, kills three U.S. soldiers and two U.S. civilians, along with an Afghan doctor. An American civilian dies in another attack in the east of the country. 2013-04-6
A U.S. soldier receives 90 days hard labour and must testify in the FOB Ramrod kill team case for keeping war souvenir photos, beating a platoon member and smoking hashish while involved with the FOB Ramrod kill team during the War in Afghanistan. 2011-01-6
China warns the U.S. against performing any military acts within their exclusive economic zone, ahead of joint South Korean-U.S. military exercises aimed at threatening North Korea. 2010-11-26