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To go faster and deeper will require advances in drilling technologies.Companies are developing drilling equipment that is more stable when breaking through hard rock at high temperatures.Some firms are even aiming to penetrate rock without using standard drills. Quaise,...

Many of those curbs remain in place today, even though English is now cited as the most comfortable language for nearly half of Singaporeans.Since the 1990s, the Speak Mandarin Campaign has shifted its focus to English-educated ethnic Chinese, and...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards attacked a Singapore-flagged commercial vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, a U.S. official confirmed to CBS News, posing a challenge to President Trump's efforts to reopen the critical shipping corridor.The...

The UN's International Maritime Organization (IMO) has paused the planned evacuation of more than 11,000 sailors stranded in the Strait of Hormuz after a cargo ship passing through the waterway was attacked.IMO chief Arsenio Dominguez said several boats had...

A group of women, who have alleged sexual assault or rape in France, are calling for the abolition of the statute of limitations which they say has prevented them seeking justice in criminal proceedings.It is the first time more...

At least 188 people were killed and some 1,500 injured by a pair of powerful earthquakes that rocked Venezuela Wednesday evening, the country's National Assembly president said Thursday. The toll was likely to keep rising as...

A British TikTok influencer is facing possible execution in Dubai after allegedly stabbing a man to death in what she says was an act of self-defense, according to the advocacy group Detained in Dubai. Brooke George,...

London — Many Europeans have long seen air conditioning as an unnecessary, costly, carbon emissions-heavy indulgence. But as the continent's summers get hotter, claiming more lives as they do, that appears to be changing.Over the last...

Gdánsk, Poland — Poland's Deputy Prime Minister Radek Sikorski told CBS News in an interview that he would not rule out the possibility of Russia staging a "false flag operation" in the next two years to...

Survivors of the catastrophic earthquakes in Venezuela — including a journalist who was in a Caracas elevator when the first temblor struck — recounted scenes of devastation as "everything collapsed." The man in the elevator, journalist...