Disasters / Accidents

(This February 16 story corrects lead paragraph after Canadian rescue officials changed the number of dead to 9 from 10,...

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Tonga was reconnected to the world on Tuesday following repairs to a submarine cable,...

OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -About 60 people were killed and dozens more wounded on Monday in an explosion at an informal gold...

By Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The death toll from last week's mudslides and floods in the...

LISBON (Reuters) - A fire which swept through a cargo ship carrying thousands of luxury cars and adrift off the...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Fire destroyed a five-storey residential building with around 50 apartments in the western German city of Essen...

By Lefteris Papadimas CORFU, Greece (Reuters) -Firefighters battling for a third day a blaze on a ferry sailing from Greece...

LISBON (Reuters) - Firefighters are struggling to put out a fire that broke out on Wednesday on a vessel carrying...

By Lefteris Papadimas and Angelo Amante CORFU, Greece (Reuters) -Twelve people are still missing after a blaze swept through a...

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -Around 155,000 British homes were still without power late on Saturday after Storm Eunice knocked...

By Angelo Amante and Lefteris Papadimas CORFU, Greece (Reuters) - Shocked and sleep-deprived, passengers rescued from a Greece-Italy ferry that...

PETROPOLIS, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday that the destruction in the mudslide disaster that killed...

ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - At least 14 people were killed in Madagascar this week by tropical storm Dumako, the state disaster...

By Lefteris Papadimas and Angelo Amante CORFU, Greece, (Reuters) -Nine passengers were missing after a blaze engulfed a ferry sailing...

By Paul Sandle and Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -An Atlantic storm battered northwestern European on Friday with record winds of...

ABUJA (Reuters) -Some 17 people were feared dead after a fuel tanker and commuter bus collided in the southern Nigerian...

By Joyce Zhou and Twinnie Siu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said on Friday that it...

KABUL (Reuters) - A young boy in trapped in a well in southern Afghanistan for three days died before locals...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A 35-year-old British diving instructor was identified as the person killed in a shark attack at a...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Several Sydney beaches, including the iconic Bondi and Bronte, were shut down on Thursday after a swimmer was...