France experienced its hottest spring on record, the French weather service said on Tuesday, after an exceptional early heat wave that also broke highs for the season in England and Wales.Meteo-France said the average nationwide temperature over March to May was 13.8°C — about 1.7°C above the norm,
Geopolitics is making it harder for India’s 1.4 billion people to cool off in the punishing summer heat. Things are about to get a whole lot worse.The problem right now is with Diet Coke. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted exports of aluminum from smelters in the Persian Gulf, which a
The weather you might typically associate with Fargo, North Dakota, is whiteout-level snow blowing across an empty, frozen landscape, perhaps with a bleak Carter Burwell soundtrack. Dust storms are more of a Dune thing. However, last week, Fargo, along with stretches of the rest of the Dakotas, Minn
A gas explosion at a coal mine in China’s northern Shanxi Province killed at least 90 people, state media said yesterday, in the country’s deadliest mining accident in recent years.The official Xinhua News Agency said the accident at Changzhi City’s Liushenyu coal mine happened on Friday evening. Ab
“Diet Coke parties” are in vogue across India as bars and restaurants tap into a social media frenzy sparked by a shortage of the cola linked to the Iran war.Unlike most other markets, Diet Coke is sold only in cans in India, making the beverage more vulnerable to supply chain disruptions caused by