The death toll from a ferry disaster on Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba has risen to 93, which makes it the country’s deadliest transport disaster, according to the state-run Herald newspaper. The ferry had a capacity to carry 90 passengers, but the paper estimates at least 168 people were actually on board when it was hit by
“Crystal Lake” star Linda Cardellini is teasing the upcoming “Friday the 13th” prequel television series. Cardellini stars in the Peacock series as the franchise antagonist Pamela Voorhees. The show, premiering Oct. 15 on the streamer, follows Voorhees’ life prior to the events of the first “Friday the 13th” film. It also stars William Catlett as
The water level at Lake Powell, the United States’ second-largest reservoir, has fallen to a record low, heightening concerns about the ongoing crisis in the Colorado River system. The alarming milestone at Lake Powell, reached Saturday, comes about a week after the river’s other major reservoir, Lake Mead, also hit a historic low. Plummeting water
Multiple people are feared dead after a boat carrying 95 people sank on Kariba dam in Zimbabwe, with rescue operations under way. Police said 90 passengers and five crew were onboard the vessel when it capsized on Tuesday, but it may have been overloaded, with other reports pointing to a higher number based on the
More than 300 people abducted in separate attacks in Nigeria have been rescued, the country’s presidency says, in what it describes as the largest single-day operation by joint security forces. The victims were rescued from the Kainji Lake National Park in Niger state in an operation involving the military, police, intelligence unit and the National
Elizabeth Murchison, a professor at the University of Cambridge, and Peter Emerson of the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife collect catfish for testing in Newport, VT. Emerson was one of the researchers who published a new article in the journal. Nature describing the first known transmissible cancer in fish. Joshua Brown/University of Vermont hide