A crash between an Amtrak passenger train and a CSX freight train in South Carolina killed at least two people and injured at least 70 on Sunday at 2:35am local time.
"Of course helmets protect your head, but they may encourage you to place it in harms way. People are far from predictable, and every new safety measure may have multiple unpredictable consequences. "
And it's not just Bitcoin, Roubini added. There are more than 1,300 cryptocurrencies or ICOs, and "most of them are even worse" than the largest digital token. These constitute a "a bubble to the power of two or three..."
“From the first day forward, the water has flowed out of the lagoon with the tide, creating a gigantic radioactive toilet that is flushed about twice each day into the Pacific Ocean.”
"...updated emergency ocean model simulation shows the condensate spilled by the Sanchi oil tanker explosion earlier this month... could reach Japan within a month..."
While North Korean citizens are used to officials searching for food and asking for bribes, their use of increasingly brutal tactics to feed a starving army has led to reported clashes between troops and citizens...
A powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake detected in the Gulf of Alaska has triggered tsunami warnings in Alaska and tsunami watches across several Western states through British Columbia all the way down to San Diego...
Over 6 feet of fresh snow disrupted the Davos summit, smothered much of the Alps and unleashed avalanche alerts a day before the World Economic Forum gets under way.
Following last weekend’s erroneous ballistic missile alert – an accident that sent crowds of people fleeing restaurants and stores in a frenzied panic – millions of Hawaiians took to Pornhub.com to ease their tension.