Despite many claims, and jokes, that an intense blue light over Astoria, Queens was the sign of an alien invasion, the cause was more terrestrial as a ConEd transformer at one its substations exploded. There were “scattered” power outages, some subway trains were temporarily stalled and nearby LaGuardia Airport had a brief blackout. Despite the […]

At least 430 people were killed Saturday when a tsunami swept through the Sunda Strait in Indonesia, leaving about 1,500 injured and almost 22,000 displaced in villages on the Java and Sumatra coasts. Some affected areas have not been reached yet. Indonesian rescuers are using heavy machinery, sniffer dogs and drones to detect and dig […]