According to an article published by United States Geological Survey scientist Larry Mastin in the latest edition of Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, an eruption of the supervolcano beneath Yellowstone National Park would blanket much of the United States in a meter of ash.

Sometimes it's not the thought that counts. Sadie Renee Johnson, 23, admitted to starting a fire in Oregon last summer because she was trying to drum up business for her friends who worked for a fire department. She threw a firecracker out of her car into the Warm Springs Indian Reservation because she says her friends were bored and needed work.

Iceland has issued a red alert to aviation after indications of a possible eruption under the country's biggest glacier, the Vattnajokull.

The next phase of the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 will be very challenging in places.

Brazilian presidential candidate Eduardo Campos was killed in a plane crash on Wednesday, throwing the October election and local financial markets into disarray. A private jet carrying Campos and his entourage crashed in a residential area in bad weather as it prepared to land in the coastal city of Santos. The accident killed all seven people on board, the Sao Paulo state fire department said.

At least 39 people were killed and nine injured Sunday when a passenger plane taking off from Iran's capital of Tehran crashed. The Iran-140 Sepahan Airlines jet crashed in a residential area when its engine shut down shortly after takeoff from Tehran's Mehrabad airport at 9:45 a.m. local time, Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported. The aircraft was en route to the eastern city of Tabas.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The crew aboard a New Zealand fishing boat on Thursday received a shock when they hauled up gruesome catch: a small plane with a body inside. Authorities suspect the plane is a 5.

A factory explosion killed 65 people early Saturday in China, according to state news agency Xinhua. The blast in the eastern Jiangsu Province injured an additional 150 people, Xinhua said, citing officials. Flames may have ignited dust in a wheel hub polishing facility, according to initial investigations.

An explosion at an automotive parts factory in China that supplies General Motors left 68 dead and 187 injured Saturday, local officials said, in the nation's deadliest industrial accident in more than a year.

Investigators spent a second day at the MH17 crash site despite fighting in the area.

A series of gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung has killed 22 people and injured about 270, officials say.

All 298 people on board a Malaysia Airlines plane lost their lives after the jet crashed into a field in eastern Ukraine, close to the border with Russia. Flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was travelling over the conflict-hit region on 17 July when it plummeted to the ground.

A huge blaze engulfing Libya's biggest fuel storage facility in the capital, Tripoli, has spread to a second tank. Libya's National Oil Company (NOC) has described the fire as "out of control". It comes hours after the authorities appealed for international assistance to try to contain the blaze. The government blames clashes between rival militias for starting the fire, which it says may cause a humanitarian and environmental disaster.

Watch step by step photos of the refloating of the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise liner.

The Dutch government says the first victim has been identified from the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 disaster.

THE left-leaning Novaya Gazeta Russian newspaper has published a highly provocative apology — written in Dutch and splashed across its front page today. The paper has deviated from the official line coming out of the Kremlin, by attributing the source of the attack on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 at the hands of the Russian separatists.

In the space of eight days, three passenger planes have been lost in mid-flight. A cluster of accidents so close together may seem an unlikely coincidence but is it?

A helicopter carrying emergency workers involved in the Sewol ferry disaster operations crashed Thursday in a South Korean city, fire officials said, leaving five dead and one injured. The helicopter came down in an urban area in the southwestern city of Gwangju, according to Gwangju and Gangwon Fire Headquarters.

Fire crews have been battling several major fires in central and eastern Washington, including one that has stretched over 250,000 acres.

A US teenager who was attempting to set an around-the-world flight record has died in a crash over the Pacific Ocean, and his father is missing. Haris Suleman's plane went down shortly after take-off from American Samoa on Tuesday night.