June 2014

The all-new Supacat Utility Vehicle 600 (SUV 600) has taken a production standard Land Rover Discovery 4x4 and adapted it for use in the Emergency Services and wider utility sectors. The additional third axle increases the payload capacity…

Wed constitutes an important avenue for the United Nations for broadening and deepening worldwide awareness, political attention and public action on sound environmental management and the challenges of climate change. Therefore,…

Tripoli (ICRC) – The ICRC condemns in the strongest possible terms the murder of its staff member Michael Greub. The 42-year-old Swiss national, head of the organization's Misrata sub-delegation, was killed by armed men around midday today…

The Free Burma Rangers (FBR) began humanitarian aid missions into the war-torn country of Burma in 1997. The squad risks their lives taking in food, medical supplies, and educational supplies to more than one million internally displaced…

The European Master in Disaster Medicine (EMDM) and CRIMEDIM start tonight a full scale disaster simulation for the XII edition of the European Master in Disaster Medicine, that will be held in Pombia (Novara). The live broadcast will be…

The Weil Mini Chest Compressor is a pneumatically driven piston device that provides the optimal 100 chest compressions per minute with 2 inches in depth. Once securely in place, the Weil Mini provides consistent rhythm resulting in…

Rearchers from Brown University have developed a new biochip sensor that can selectively measure concentrations of glucose in a complex solution similar to human saliva. The advance is an important step toward a device that would enable…

Heavy rain in Pingba County, southern China, has caused a powerful floods. The huge downpour has fall over 7 inches (188 millimeters). Heavy rain started to batter Pingba Monday night, inundating roads and residential areas. 2 people die,…

KARACHI (Pakistan) — A Pakistan air force fighter jet crashed into the country’s largest city after a technical fault today (June 3), killing two pilots and a civilian on the ground, authorities said. Air force spokesman Tariq Mahmood said…

Scared but safe! Crews rescued this pooch after a truck accidentally rolled into a river from a parking lot in Winthrop, Wash. over the weekend. The owner was not in the vehicle at the time. photo: Chuck Hilliard…