As if 2016 has not been long enough, the year's dying minute will last an extra second to make up for time lost to Earth's slowing rotation, timekeepers say.
Countries that use Coordinated Universal Time -- several West African nations, Britain, Ireland and Iceland -- will add the leap second during the midnight countdown to 2017, making the year's finalRead more
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.7 Thursday has struck off the Solomon Islands, prompting a tsunami alert for the region.
The earthquake, which struck at 17:38 UTC on Thursday, was centered about 68 kilometers (42 miles) southwest of Kirakira in the Solomon Islands, or 211 kilometers (127 miles) southeast of Honiara. It struck at a shallow depthRead more