South America Science & Technology News

On the 150th anniversary of its publication an appeal has been launched for a missing notebook in which the scientist jotted important observations. Photograph: Graeme Robertson Today, on the 150th anniversary of a book that changed the world – the...

Hurricane Ida slammed into Nicaragua's Caribbean coast on Thursday after dumping heavy rain on little-developed offshore islands where hundreds of people were evacuated from flimsy homes. At 10 a.m. EST (1500 GMT) Ida was located about 75 miles north of...

Tropical Storm Ida strengthened off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua on Wednesday, threatening the Central American nation with torrential rains that could trigger devastating mudslides. Ida, the ninth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, was expected to make landfall...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) Tuesday said it had asked the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to press Israel to release more frequencies for a long-awaited second mobile phone operator. It wants Geneva-based ITU, which defines and adopts telecoms standards, to urge...

A US court has jailed the founder of an online gambling firm for more than four years and ordered him to forfeit more than $43m (£26m) in illicit earnings. Gary Kaplan, 50, had admitted various charges of fraud and racketeering...

Hand gel was banned from a prison after inmates got high and started a fight, it was revealed today. Inmates at HMP The Verne on the Isle of Portland in Dorset were drinking the gel for its alcohol content after...

Modern Peru could learn from the civilization's collapse, they say. The Nazca people of Peru -- famous for their huge line drawings on an arid plateau that are fully visible only from the air -- set the stage for their...

Tropical Storm Henri expected to pass north of Virgin Islands Wednesday, October 7th 2009 ST. Tropical Storm Henri formed Tuesday afternoon about 1,000 miles west of the Virgin Islands. The storm is predicted to move well north of the Virgin...