A sharp, magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook the eastern Solomon Islands on Tuesday morning, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injury, emergency officials said. [Read more]

A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake shook southern Japan on Tuesday, the country’s meteorological agency said, but there was no risk of a tsunami and no immediate reports of casualties or damage. [Read more]

Bdnews24.com, Dhaka
Low-lying areas of the Teesta river went under water after India opened the Gojal Doba barrage in the upstream, Water Development Board officials said yesterday.The WDB’s flood forecasting and warning centre (FFWC) said though the river waters had risen at several points there was no flood situation anywhere in the country. River waters increased [...]

Weeks of rain pushed rivers over their banks in southern China, killing at least 112 people, displacing more than 1.27 million and forcing some to huddle on rooftops Monday as the region braced for more downpours. [Read more]

Muddy, brown water from a quake lake in southwest China was pouring into the flattened town of Beichuan Tuesday, piling new woes on its tormented population. [Read more]

This time Ana Ivanovic was ready for the French Open final.
Showing no sign of the nerves that afflicted her a year ago, Ivanovic won her first Grand Slam title Saturday by beating Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-3.
By reaching the final, Ivanovic had already assured herself of being ranked No. 1 for the first time next week. [...]

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Higher food prices may be here to stay as demand from developing countries and production costs rise, says an influential report.A report by the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the body for rich nations, the OECD, said prices will fall, but only gradually. It said the current price spike was higher than previous [...]

Shamim Jahangir
The food procurement drive of the government is not keeping pace with the target due mainly to low purchasing price of rice and paddy, power outage and bad weather.The government has fixed the procurement target of rice at 12 lakh tonnes and paddy at 3 lakh tonnes this year. The four and a [...]

Shamim Jahangir
The food procurement drive of the government is not keeping pace with the target due mainly to low purchasing price of rice and paddy, power outage and bad weather.The government has fixed the procurement target of rice at 12 lakh tonnes and paddy at 3 lakh tonnes this year. The four and a [...]

More than 80 miners are feared dead after floods swept pits in northern Tanzania on Saturday, a survivor and police said. [Read more]