G20 Ukraine para faces Russian, Chinese fire August 19, 2023 at 02:10PM

Russia and China maintained their objections to the paragraph lifted from the 2022 Bali Declaration that condemned Russia's aggression, while acknowledging different views and assessments. With Russia no longer backing the paragraph text, the G20 ministerial meetings this year have ended only with an outcome document and Chair's summary, and not a joint communique or a consensus document.

Record-setting temperatures forecast in Dallas as scorching heat wave continues to bake the US August 19, 2023 at 11:13AM

Highs of 109 degrees Fahrenheit (42.8 degrees Celsius) forecast for Saturday and 110 F (43.3 C) on Sunday in Dallas would break the current record of 107 F (41.7 C) each day, both set in 2011, and would come after a high of 109 F (42.8 C) on Thursday broke a record of 107 F set in 1951, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Tom Bradshaw.

1 dead, 185 structures destroyed in eastern Washington wildfire August 19, 2023 at 10:11AM

Level 3 evacuations - Go Now - were ordered for the town as winds blew the flames south, Hoygaard said. The blaze burned through the south side of the town and then jumped Interstate 90 Friday night, forcing its closure. The major east-west thoroughfare remained closed in both directions Saturday morning.

Hurricane Hilary, now a category 3 storm, nears Mexico and California August 19, 2023 at 10:04AM

The storm, which weakened on Saturday to a Category 3 hurricane, was about 235 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula as of 8 a.m. Saturday in Los Angeles, the National Hurricane Center said in an advisory. Meteorologists have said that the storm may cause "life-threatening" and potentially "catastrophic" flooding in Baja and the Southwestern United States, starting this weekend.

Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft suffers technical glitch, space agency says August 19, 2023 at 07:11AM

An "abnormal situation" occurred at Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft on Saturday as it was preparing to transfer to its pre-landing orbit, Russia's national space agency Roskosmos said. The Russian spacecraft is scheduled to land on the south pole of the moon on Monday, part of a big power race to explore a part of the moon which scientists think may hold frozen water and precious elements.

Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft produces first results, space agency says August 19, 2023 at 03:08AM

The Russian spacecraft on a mission to the moon's south pole has produced its first results and they are being analysed, Russia's national space agency Roskosmos said on Saturday. The agency also posted images of the moon's Zeeman crater taken from the Luna-25 spacecraft, which is scheduled to make a landing on the south pole on Monday after circling the Earth's only natural satellite for five days.