Every explainer piece we have published.
Houthi ballistic-missile waves struck King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on 6-10 October 2026, killing at least three people, destroying a parked aircraft and forcing mass flight cancellations. This explainer collects what official and major-outlet sources confirm — and where the record sti
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A shallow magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck south-central Panama on 9 October 2026, damaging buildings in Penonome and Sona and prompting evacuations in Panama City. This explainer sets out the verified USGS facts, the stood-down tsunami check, and what to expect from aftershocks.
Read report →Hurricane Isaias is closing on the northern Gulf Coast with warnings in force tonight. The main threats are storm surge, flooding rain and tornadoes.
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Measles was never eliminated — it was only ever out-vaccinated. With the US in its worst year since 1991 and 71 Pakistani children dead this year, here is why the world's most contagious virus is back, and the two doses that stop it.
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When Islamabad, Lahore or Delhi sways and nothing nearby is damaged, the earthquake was very often 200 km beneath the Hindu Kush. Why these deep earthquakes are felt so widely, when they are still dangerous, and what our records show.
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On 8 October 2005 a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck near Muzaffarabad on a school morning in Ramadan. Twenty-one years on: why it was so deadly, what Pakistan changed, and what our records show about how often the north still shakes.
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Seven systems formed in the North Indian Ocean in 2026 and none became a cyclone, so the name Arnab is still waiting. How storms are named, the names that come next, and why the weeks after the monsoon bring the region's deadliest storms.
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Some sources say about fifty earthquakes a day, others say tens of thousands, and both are right. The difference is how small an earthquake you count and who is counting — plus what magnitude actually measures, and why "shiddat" in a headline means magnitude.
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People assume there is a global feed of what just happened. There is not. This is how twenty-four-three-one streams, news read in twenty-four-three-five languages and a 30,719-city gazetteer are assembled into one picture — including the bug that turned one flood into four records, and the incident
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Dead bodies do not cause epidemics — the belief that they do leads to hurried burials that harm families for years. What actually follows a disaster, in the order it arrives.
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