Local authorities in Somalia have confirmed that a Chinese-owned fishing vessel with 18 crew members aboard was hijacked last week off the northeastern coast of Xaafuun district in Somalia’s Bari ...

As the Somali Plate gradually drifts eastward and ... it took over 30 million years for the Earth’s crust in the rift valley to thin from “40 to 35 kilometers (25 miles), so it will take ...