At least 52 people were killed after a landslide Monday in the municipality of Salgar, about 100 kilometers southwest of Medellin, an official says.

Harry Randall Truman refused to leave Spirit Lake Lodge, and probably died as a result.

When I was 20, the man I was dating died. We were traveling together thousands of miles from home in a remote part of Southeast Asia, and one morning, he didn’t wake up. His breathing was labored and intermittent. I attempted CPR and then got him to a doctor, his body hastily wrapped in a sheet and placed in the back of a truck. It was too late. His 22-year-old heart, for complicated reasons, had stopped beating.

The inspector general's report warned that failure to obtain radio frequency was delaying a safety system that might have prevented the derailment.

The day after the Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia, debate rages over whether it's too soon to talk about Amtrak funding and infrastructure projects.

On 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police moved in to arrest four members of a radical black liberation group called Move – but a bungled raid left 11 people dead. Alan Yuhas revisits the only aerial bombing carried out by police on US soil.

A fire that engulfed a footwear factory in Valenzuela City, in the northern Philippines, has killed 72 people, authorities said Thursday.

Managed honey bee colonies suffered annual losses of 42%, with summer declines outstripping winter losses for the first time, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday.

Emergency off Malaysian coast as fate of migrants' boats is unclear.

At least five people died Tuesday night when a passenger train carrying 238 passengers and five crew members derailed in Philadelphia. The tragedy that took place some time after 9 p.m. ET and forced Amtrak to shut down all service in the busy corridor between New York City and Philadelphia.

Magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes two weeks after massive quake killed thousands in Himalayan nation.

In Toronto on Tuesday I was poring over posts on Facebook about the Nepal earthquake when a message popped up: “Disasters Happen.” It was the Red Cross wisely instructing to “Know the risks, make a plan, get a kit.” After all, it’s Emergency Preparedness Week in Canada. Following the April 25 earthquake, Nepalis have had to learn the value of preparedness in the most painful way possible.

A couple years ago, NASA and DHS unveiled a portable radar unit based on technology used to detect alien life on distant exoplanets. This radar unit, though, would be used closer to home—to find people burried under rubble. In the first real-world demonstration of its use, the device helped save 4 men trapped under earthquake rubble in Nepal.

Gregg Bemis, owner of the salvage rights to the Lusitania, wants to solve the mystery of why it sank so quickly. He may not get the chance.

Documents obtained by DeSmogBlog reveal an alarming rate of corrosion to parts of TransCanada's Keystone 1 pipeline. A mandatory inspection test revealed a section of the pipeline's wall had corroded 95%, leaving it paper-thin in one area (one-third the thickness of a dime) and dangerously thin in three other places, leading TransCanada to immediately shut it down. The cause of the corrosion is being kept from the public by federal regulators and TransCanada.

Facebook users have proven the "donate now" button on the social platform is an extraordinarily powerful tool. It has only been two days since the donation button to help the people of Nepal affected by a devastating earthquake went live at the top of Facebook feeds across the world. In that time, more than half a million people have donated and raised more than US$10 million in funds for International Medical Corps (IMC), according to Facebook.

Nepalis saw disaster coming. Why wasn't more done to prepare for it?

A search and rescue team pulled a man from a collapsed apartment block in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu on Tuesday after he had spent around 80 hours in a room with three dead bodies. Rishi Khanal, 28, appeared to have had no access to food or water during his ordeal, which began at midday on Saturday when a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, destroying buildings and killing at least 4,600 people.

Prime Minister Sushil Koirala warns that number of people confirmed dead could soar as rescue teams reach remote areas.