Chinese officials face a race against time to clear toxic chemicals from the site of the Tianjin warehouse explosion, amid fears the blast may have released hundreds of tons of toxic gas into the air. Soldiers have joined rescue workers in gas masks and hazard suits in the port city where the death toll from Wednesday’s massive explosion has risen to 112. Another 95, the majority of whom were firefighters, remained missing.

President Rafael Correa declared a state of emergency over increasing activity in the Cotopaxi volcano near the capital of Quito, and officials evacuated a few hundred people as a precaution.

A volcano in Japan just 50 kilometres away from a nuclear reactor shows signs of increased activity, officials warn.

Smoke billows out from the site of an explosion that reduced a parking lot filled with new cars to charred remains at a warehouse in northeastern China's Tianjin municipality. Huge explosions in the warehouse district sent up massive fireballs that turned the night sky into day in the port city, officials and witnesses said.

Australian authorities believe they may have spotted parts of ill-fated plane MH370 on the bottom of the southern Indian Ocean but won't be able to check them for several months.

Video of the blast shows people many kilometres away hit by a huge shockwave moments after the explosion

RMS Titanic may be the most notorious shipwreck on record, but it is by no means the worst.

SUSPICION has again fallen on MH370 captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah amid claims the wing part found on La Reunion Island shows signs of a “controlled crash”.

Malaysian authorities have said they have found aircraft seat cushions and window panes on the same island where part of the wing of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was found.

MISSING Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 will be found in the Southern Indian Ocean at the opposite end of the current search area, according to drift analysis based on the discovery of a wing part on La Reunion Island.

In retrospect, the choice to book a ground-floor room was a sound one. On Saturday, April 25, Andy Fraser lay in bed at the Rokpa Guest House, a modest three-story hotel in Nepal’s ancient capital, a city of 1 million sunk in a valley bordered by the Himalayan range. Fraser, a powerfully built 38-year-old British wilderness paramedic with a shaved head and prominent brow, had arrived a few weeks earlier for an extended business trip.

When disaster strikes, the private crisis-response firm Global Rescue gets you out alive---if you can afford it.

To the cops, Jabbar Gibson was just a low-level drug pusher. But to the residents of a New Orleans public housing complex, he’s the man who rescued them from Hurricane Katrina when no one else would. By Joel Anderson.

Fukushima has had no physical impact on human health but will have lasting social and psychological ones, say leading radiological protection experts.

More than 50 buildings, including 24 residences have been destroyed, by the Rocky Fire. A massive wildfire near the California capital spanned 46,000 acres Sunday, up from 27,000 acres the previous evening.

Pieces of metal are found on Reunion where a Boeing 777 wing part believed to belong to MH370 washed up last week, a source says.

Osama Bin Laden's stepmother and sister are reportedly among the four people killed in a plane crash in southern England.

To the cops, Jabbar Gibson was just a low-level drug pusher. But to the residents of a New Orleans public housing complex, he’s the man who rescued them from Hurricane Katrina when no one else would.

While aviation experts scramble to confirm if they have finally found evidence of MH370, authorities have stated the aircraft wing part that washed up on the coast of Reunion Island could be from other known crashes in the area.

Seventy years later, [U.S.S. Indianapolis] veterans of an epic naval disaster gather to share stories of suffering, reconciliation, and healing. By Glenn Hodges.