More than 20 people are thought to be missing or unaccounted for after flash flooding swept through parts of the Grand Canyon. It hit at around 14:30 local time (22:30 BST) on Saturday in Bright Angel Canyon and Phantom Ranch area, according to the National Park Service (NPS). Sixty-two people have so far been airlifted
A 97-year-old woman pulled from flood debris in Nepal is recovering in hospital, according to her doctors. Guna Maya Bohara’s great-nephew, Dipak Bohara, has told BBC Nepali she looked like “a warrior” who had returned victorious from battle. The operation to pull Bohara out of the rubble of her care home took four hours. Bohara
“She kept saying the weather was good,” he says. “She said it was rather warm, it was raining sometimes.” The next morning, 26 August, Subhrasree left her hotel shortly after 7am. Bhattacharya spoke to her on the phone, and the two continued messaging afterwards. Around an hour later, she told him the Nepal immigration formalities
Nearly 600 foreign nationals are missing after deadly floods hit the Nepal-Tibet border on Wednesday. The flooding began on the morning of August 26, when a surge of water, mud, and debris entered Nepal from the autonomous Chinese region of Tibet via the Bhote Koshi River, Nepal’s Tourism Board said. Around 465 bodies have been
Houses are partially submerged in muddy water following flash floods in Nepal.Credit: Prabin RANABHAT/AFP via Getty Around 350 people have died and more than 1,000 are missing, after a deadly deluge of rocks, mud and water hit villages along the border of Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday. The US Geological Survey says the event was
Google just released a new AI model this month. Its employees are already testing the next one. Some staff have begun using a preview version of Gemini 3.8 Flash, highlighting the breakneck pace of the AI race as Google pushes out new models just weeks apart to keep up with OpenAI and Anthropic. The new
