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A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted on Thursday for the third time since December, sending jets of lava into the sky and triggering the evacuation of the Blue Lagoon spa, one of the island country's biggest tourist attractions.The eruption began at about 1 a.m. ET along a three-kilometre fissure northeast of Mount Sýlingarfell, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said. Several communities on the Reykjanes Peninsula were cut off from heat and hot water after a river of lava engulfed a supply pipeline.The strength of…

A strong overnight earthquake rattled a mountainous region of northwestern China, authorities said Tuesday, destroying homes, leaving residents out in a below-freezing winter night and killing 127 people in the nation's deadliest quake in nine years.The magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck just before midnight on Monday, injuring more than 700 people, damaging roads and knocking out power and communication lines in Gansu and Qinghai provinces, officials and Chinese media reports said.WATCH | Aftermath of the earthquake: See…

A volcano that had rumbled for weeks erupted in southwestern Iceland, spewing semi-molten rock into the air in a spectacular show of Earth's power in the land known for fire and ice.The eruption that started Monday night occurred about four kilometres from the town of Grindavik, the Icelandic Meteorological Office said. The town near Iceland's main airport was evacuated in November after thousands of earthquakes damaged homes and raised fears of an imminent eruption.On Tuesday, fountains of orange lava shot into the…

SpaceX's uncrewed spacecraft Starship, developed to carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, was presumed to have been lost minutes after lifting off on Saturday in a second test after its first attempt to reach space ended in an explosion.The two-stage rocketship blasted off from the Elon Musk-owned company's Starbase launch site near Boca Chica in Texas, soaring roughly 90 kilometres above ground on a planned 90-minute flight into space.But the rocket's Super Heavy first-stage booster, though it appeared to achieve a…

Pat Robertson, the charismatic religious broadcaster who parlayed the success of his pioneering television ministry into the first serious bid by an evangelical leader for the U.S. presidency, then launched the influential Christian Coalition advocacy group, has died. He was 93.Robertson’s death Thursday was announced by his broadcasting network. No cause was given.The founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and host of its enormously popular, long-running program, “The 700 Club” had suffered a stroke in 2018.A…

OTTAWA—Canada’s main public broadcaster said Monday that it was pausing activity on Twitter, becoming the latest media outlet to refrain from posting because of the social-media platform’s policy on labeling accounts.  Canadian Broadcasting Corp. said the decision comes a day after Twitter labeled its @CBC account as “government-funded media.” Twitter defines such outlets as those that rely mostly on government funding to carry out operations “and may have varying degrees of government involvement over…

The BBC has confirmed rumours that it is to cut back its slate of BBC Introducing programmes, the nationwide regional radio arm of its platform dedicated to unearthing emerging musicians.Previously, all 39 of the BBC’s local radio stations helmed their own Introducing show. This will be cut to 20 shows, although the frequency of broadcasts will double to twice a week, “giving up-and-coming musicians a bigger platform and audience than ever before”, the broadcaster said in a statement.Each of the 39 stations will “retain…

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Qatar’s BeIN Media Group, a sports broadcaster once banned in Saudi Arabia, has signed a strategic partnership with a media company from the kingdom, people familiar with the deal said, illustrating the shifting geopolitics of the Middle East ahead of the first FIFA World Cup in the region. BeIN has appointed Saudi Media Co., an advertising sales agency connected to the Saudi government, as the broadcaster’s exclusive advertising partner in the Middle East and North…

Article content A Russian broadcaster wants his country to bomb Britain “back to the Stone Age.” Yaakov Kedmi said Russia should hit the United Kingdom with its Zircon missile – a hypersonic missile capable of reaching 6,670 mph, according to Metro. Kedmi even said Russia’s nuclear-capable Sarmat missles were “too good” to be wasted on Britain. “One or one-and-a-half launches from a multi-purpose submarine with Zircons will be enough. About 50 or 60 of Britain’s power stations will be gone in 10 minutes, and Britain…