Lead barrister Victor Dawes says messages show substandard scaffolding mesh was used by contractors, while a cigarette ‘most likely’ caused the blaze.

An independent committee investigating the cause of Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades heard accounts Thursday about how a ...

"Build before it breaks." A SXSW panel laid out how Austin can use new tech to strengthen aging infrastructure as storms, heat and floods intensify.

Lead barrister Victor Dawes says messages show substandard scaffolding mesh was used by contractors, while a cigarette ‘most likely’ caused the blaze.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the new Office of Community Safety on Thursday, signaling a shift in public safety approach from policing to prevention and support programs.

Mumbai, March 18: I shifted to Hiranandani Gardens, Powai in 2007–08. I had seen its transformation from a simple green place to an overcrowded suburb, with small bungalows and buildings making way ...

As the deceased commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, once put it, maintaining deterrence is like riding a bicycle: “You have to keep pedaling all the ...

Nigeria’s political class has, over the decades, perfected a troubling paradox: the ability to be visibly active yet ...

In April 2012, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle was found on Graham Island in the Haida Gwaii archipelago off the coast of British Columbia. It belonged to Ikuo Yokoyama, a survivor of the earthquake and ...

Over the past three months alone, over five people have lost their lives due to building collapses in Nairobi due to different structural reasons.

The Indian Ocean Tsunami hit Sri Lanka in 2004. Cyclone Ditwah swamped us in 2025. In both cases, in addition to lives lost ...