Nepal, Haiti, 9/11 - California Task Force Two goes wherever disaster strikes.

At least six people were hurt when a portion of the ceiling of a cinema inside Ayala Center Cebu here collapsed during a launching event of a business process outsourcing company about 8:50 p.m. on Monday. At least 350 people were attending the launching event and team building of Dreamscape Networks inside Cinema 5 when water suddenly poured from the ceiling, said employee Carlo Florentino.

A fast-spreading Alaska wildfire has destroyed up to 45 homes and forced authorities to restrict traffic on a major highway connecting two of the state's largest cities, state officials said .

Nearly two months after suffering a 7.8 magnitude quake, authorities have reopened all of Nepal's seven world heritage sites, and other historic monuments.

Germanwings Flight 9525 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz feared he was going blind and went to see dozens of doctors before he crashed a plane into the French Alps.

As many as 40 people were hurt when a New Jersey Transit bus rear-ended a bus carrying Canadian students Wednesday morning in the Manhattan-bound Lincoln Tunnel, the Port Authority said. A 32-year-old woman, whose vehicle was stuck behind the two buses, went into labor after the crash and was transported to Bellevue Hospital Center.

A group of western tourists who stripped naked at the peak of Mount Kinabalu last month will be prohibited from leaving Malaysia, as their act of "disrespecting the mountain" could have caused the devastating earthquake that killed at least 13 people. The earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale struck Sabah's west coast on Friday, causing landslides on Mount Kinabalu, where at least thirteen climbers have so far been confirmed dead.

Egg prices are one thing. Egg purchasing limits are something else entirely.

Despite taking in more than $500 million in donations, the Red Cross has only built six houses in Haiti. The American Red Cross raised more than half a billion dollars to bring relief to Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake there, but it grossly overstated what the money bought. Although the organization claimed to have provided housing to more than 130,000 people, it actually only built six permanent homes, according to a report by ProPublica and NPR.

An explosion at a petrol station in Ghana's capital killed around 90 people sheltering from a storm early on Thursday, emergency services said, in the worst disaster to strike the West African state

An executive of Airbus Group has confirmed that the crash of an Airbus A400M military transport was caused by a faulty software configuration. Marwan Lahoud, chief marketing and strategy officer for Airbus, told the German newspaper Handelsblatt on Friday that there was a "quality issue in the final assembly" of the components of the aircraft engine.

A flooded apartment complex in San Marcos, Texas, points to the broader challenge cities face in balancing urban growth with floodplain risks.

The world’s biggest brewer halted production this week to make water — rather than beer — to help those affected by a string of deadly storms in Texas and Oklahoma. Anheuser-Busch, the company behind Budweiser and Bud Light, has stopped producing its famous lager at its Georgia brewery in order to send out 50,000 cans of emergency water for people living in the afflicted communities.

When Hurricane Sandy devastated the Northeast, Ted Cruz opposed emergency relief. In the wake of Texas flooding, however, he's found a new position.

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was back in 2010, but the effects are still being understood. A new NOAA study finds the spill is directly linked to the deaths of an "unprecedented" number of bottlenose dolphins — a link that BP denies. It appears that no amount of cleaning can fix the long-term effects of oil contamination in fragile coastal habitats. It appears that no amount of cleaning can fix the long-term effects of oil contamination in fragile coastal habitats.

Two billion cups of coffee are drunk around the world every day but scientists says the most popular species, Arabica, is under threat - they are now working to save it from extinction.

As many as 105,000 gallons of crude might have spilled. California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency for Santa Barbara County on Wednesday as cleanup teams sought to limit the environmental impact from a ruptured underground pipeline that might have spilled as many as 105,000 gallons of crude oil. More than 20,000 gallons are estimated to have spilled into the ocean, seeping through the ground into a...

The crash was a tragedy. Amtrak’s response was a disaster.

The mystery of the Malaysia Airlines flight continues to puzzle experts as the scope for the search greatly expands

cientologists profess a range of supernatural powers. They claim the ability to turn drunk people sober in minutes. A Scientologist can heal the traumatized, so they say, simply by reconnecting a victim’s body with a “thetan,” or immortal spirit. None of this is backed by medical science. But that hasn’t stopped Scientologists from flying to Nepal — alongside many other religious and spiritual groups — to practice dubious healing techniques on grieving earthquake survivors.