A magnitude-4.7 earthquake struck a remote area of central California on Tuesday. But a seismologist said there was no connection to a slightly smaller quake hours earlier in the San Francisco Bay region.
Activists with the Extinction Rebellion movement blocked major roads in Berlin and Amsterdam on Monday at the beginning of what was billed as a wide-ranging series of protests demanding new climate policies.
Bullet train services on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line will be canceled between Shin-Osaka and Kokura stations on Aug. 15 as a large typhoon is likely to hit western Japan, West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) said on Aug. 14.