Disasters / Accidents

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) confirmed late on Friday the cockpit voice recorder from a China...

RUDNIK SOKO, Serbia (Reuters) - Eight miners were killed and 18 injured on Friday when a shaft collapsed at a...

(Reuters) - The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has requested that its specialists be authorised to visit the Zaporizhzhia nuclear...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Torrential rain that flooded towns on Australia's east coast eased on Friday but a combination of two...

By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) - Authorities on a mid-Atlantic Portuguese island hit by thousands of small earthquakes in recent...

BEIJING (Reuters) -The cause of the crash of the China Eastern Airlines jet last week must be determined as soon...

(Reuters) -A tsunami warning issued for Fiji, New Caledonia and Vanuatu after an earthquake struck the Tadine, New Caledonia region...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - At least seven bodies were recovered and about a dozen people were missing after a boat...

By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) - Heavy rains deluged Australia's east coast on Wednesday, submerging entire towns, while thousands of...

By Catarina Demony and Pedro Nunes SAO JORGE, Portugal (Reuters) -Volcano experts warned on Tuesday that the earthquake-hit island of...

DAKAR (Reuters) - The United Nation's peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo lost contact with a helicopter on...

By Catarina Demony SAO JORGE, Portugal (Reuters) -Fatima Viveiros was a little girl when she decided to become a volcanologist....

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A military diving team deactivated a stray naval mine off Turkey's northwest coast on Monday, Turkey's defence...

BEIJING (Reuters) - After finding two black boxes from a crashed China Eastern jet, recovery crews are looking for more...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday that Beijing will provide visa assistance to all foreign...

MANILA (Reuters) - A small but restive volcano near the Philippine capital Manila ejected two more plumes on Sunday, indicating...

(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck near the coastal region of Ecuador late on Saturday, damaging buildings and...

By Tim Hepher and Jamie Freed (Reuters) -Chinese authorities on Sunday recovered the second black box from a China Eastern...

By Aziz El Yaakoubi RIYADH (Reuters) -Yemen's Houthi group said on Saturday it was suspending missile and drone strikes on...

By Catarina Demony and Pedro Nunes SAO JORGE, Portugal (Reuters) - With no idea when they might return, a retired...