ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Unless countries urgently boost their flood defenses, millions more people will be at risk from river flooding in the next 20 years as global warming increases the likelihood of severe rainfall, scientists said on Wednesday. In Asia, the numbers at risk will more than ...

By 2050 the total number is projected to reach 8.1 million.   Muslims are expected to become America’s second largest religious group by the year 2040, a new estimates has suggested. The Pew Research Center said there are currently 3.45 million Muslims in the US, which is approximately 1.1 per cent of the ...

Senators say Trump has ignored threat to security and have called for new sanctions  Senate Democrats accused President Donald Trump of failing to address the rising threat posed by Russian meddling in western democracies, calling on Wednesday for new sanctions and a US-led global response. “Never before has a US ...

  SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge in San Francisco temporarily barred President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday from ending a program shielding young people brought to the United States illegally by their parents from deportation. The Trump administration announced in September it would rescind Deferred Action for Childhood ...

After better than expected growth in the global economy, Bank says financial markets are vulnerable to unforeseen negative news   Financial markets are complacent about the risks of sharply higher interest rates that could be triggered by better than expected growth in the global economy this year, the World Bank ...

Snowfall covered the desert dunes   Snow has fallen in the Sahara, covering desert dunes in a layer up to 40cm deep. Snow started falling on the Algerian town of Ain Sefra in the early hours of Sunday morning, giving children an opportunity to race each other down the slopes. Rising ...

        Iran’s top nuclear official said Monday that his country might rethink its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency if President Trump scrapped American participation in the 2015 agreement limiting Iranian nuclear activities. The warning, from Ali Akbar Salehi, president of the Atomic Energy Organization of ...

  The findings offer promise for those who suffer from life-threatening addiction and other destructive disorders.   What if people suffering from debilitating addiction could regain control of their lives thanks to a brain implant? We’re not there yet, but a provocative new study shows it may be possible to ...

  BEIJING: An Iranian oil tanker that caught fire after colliding with a freighter off China’s east coast is at risk of exploding and sinking, Chinese state media reported Monday as authorities from three countries struggled to find its 32 missing crew members and contain oil spewing from the blazing ...

Genetic analysis of a baby girl who died at the end of the last ice age shows she belonged to a previously unknown ancient group of Native Americans   A baby girl who lived and died in what is now Alaska at the end of the last ice age belonged ...