Disasters / Accidents

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Icelandic rescuers have located the bodies of three tourists and the pilot after their sightseeing plane crashed...

YENAGAO, Nigeria (Reuters) -At least three people died in Nigeria when the oil storage and production vessel, FPSO Trinity Spirit,...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A Himalayan avalanche trapped a patrol team of seven Indian Army personnel in the northeastern state...

RABAT (Reuters) - The death of 5-year-old Rayan Awram despite a massive effort to rescue him from a deep well...

By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) -A small boy trapped in a well in northern Moroccan for five days died before...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday praised the people of Morocco for coming together to try to rescue...

ZURICH (Reuters) -One person was killed and four others injured in an avalanche in western Austria on Saturday, police said,...

By Lovasoa Rabary ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) -Cyclone Batsirai made landfall on Madagascar's eastern coastline late on Saturday, with residents reporting strong...

(Reuters) - Authorities in Iceland have found a small plane at the bottom of a lake two days after the...

(Reuters) - Western Australian officials warned on Saturday of forecast "extreme to catastrophic fire conditions" as a large bushfire burned...

RABAT (Reuters) - Moroccan rescue workers on Friday came closer to reaching a young child trapped at the bottom of...

By Tife Owolabi WARRI, Nigeria (Reuters) - An oil production and storage vessel exploded off the coast of Nigeria early...

(Reuters) - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Java in Indonesia on Friday, the European Mediterranean Seismological...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian authorities have declared two villages on Java island red zones and banned livestock movement from the...

MADRID (Reuters) - At least one migrant drowned and 16 were missing after their dinghy capsized in the Atlantic Ocean...

By Stefica Nicol Bikes (Reuters) - The streets of tsunami-hit Tonga were empty and silent on Thursday on the first...

By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) - The mayor of Ecuador's capital Quito revised the number of people missing after a...

KINSHASA (Reuters) -Twenty-six people died on Wednesday after lightning struck a high-tension power cable on the outskirts of the Congolese...

By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -At least 24 people perished in a landslide in Ecuador's capital Quito, and 12 others...

By Eduardo Simões and Leonardo Benassatto SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Part of a major expressway collapsed on Tuesday above a construction...