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BBC News: After a major quake and tsunami rocked Palu, 408 people were killed and about 500 were injured. The full scale of casualties and damage is still unknown. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.5, but occurred at a rather shallow depth and caused a tsunami. Find out more of the details here.

Mosquitos carrying the West Nile Virus have been found in Brookline, MA. There have been six cases in Massachusetts thus far and the public is being urged to take precautionary steps towards bug protection. These include the use of screens, bug repellent containing DEET or Picaridin, wearing long…

William Branigin and Ashley Halsey III — Washington Post A 38 year old commercial Boeing 737 crashed soon after takeoff, killing more than 100 people. Flight 972 was leaving from Jose Marti International Airport and bound for Holguin, Cuba. Cuban’s president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, other government…

Kenya's Water Resources Management Authority has released a statement saying that the Patel dam that killed more than 45 people was built without a permit. While the farm manager has denied any wrongdoing, the bursting of the dam resulted in nearly 70 million liters of water hurtling towards the…

Recently, the suspected Golden State Killer was arrested and taken into custody after decades of mystery. Investigators used an unorthodox tool to bring this killer into light: a genealogy website. Websites like Ancestry ad 23AndMe store millions of samples of DNA on their websites and some allow…

Grant McArthur and Herald Sun — Herald Sun Three men are in critical care at a local hospital after visiting Airport West and Gladstone Park Shopping Centers in Melbourne, Australia. Two of the men are fighting Legionnaires’ disease, while the third individual is still under review. Legionnaires’…

Andy Greenberg — WIRED Hackers have found a way to hack into Android phones over the internet. This new technique is known as “Rowhammer.” Essentially, hackers are able to influence the electrical system in the phone’s memory chip and create corrupt data, allowing them to access the phone over the…

CNet: The Federal Communications Commission has now discontinued the net neutrality rules passed in 2015. Broadband networks are being re-classified to not be regulated under the same rules as telephone networks, as they were before 2015. Read the full article here.

Cyber-attacks carried out allegedly by the Russian government have affected computer routers worldwide, including some in Australia. The United States and the UK, both of which were also impacted by attacks, have agreed to push back as well as issue joint alerts on the event. Read the full article…

CNN News: Two deaths and fifty-six cases of severe bleeding have been linked to synthetic cannabinoid consumption in Illinois. All effected individuals were hospitalized and reported coughing up blood, hematuria, or bloody noses. While officials are not yet sure what caused the drug…

AFP — Daily Mail Around midnight Friday night, a U.S. drone is believed to have killed two AL-Qaeda members. A security official stated that one of the members killed, Abu Hussein, was a local commander of the group. The other was a militant, named Dawoud al-Sanaani. The drone strike was in near…

Increased activity of Mount Mayon has caused authorities to increase the danger zone to 5 miles from the volcano on Tuesday. 56,000 people have fled and no reports of injuries or death have arisen.

Baxter Inc., the principal manufacturer for IV bags for the US was not able to run normal operations due to the damage caused by Hurricane Maria. The FDA has stepped in to approve bags from countries such as Germany and Spain to alleviate the impact caused by this shortage. To read more information…

The uterus transplant was carried out as part of a clinical trial in the neonatal unit at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas to study new infertility treatment options for women who don’t have a functioning uterus. It’s an irreversible condition, called uterine factor infertility, affecting…