Deep inside Chile’s San Jose Mine, the collapse hit the miners as a roar of sound, as if a skyscraper were crashing around them. A single block of granite-like stone, as tall as a forty-five-story building, had broken loose and was falling through the layers of the mine. It was later estimated to weigh seven hundred thousand tons, twice the weight of the Empire State Building.

A retired Nasa engineer reveals details of a daring plan that could have been used to rescue a shuttle crew facing certain death stranded in orbit.

A federal safety panel on Tuesday concluded that the pilots flying the Asiana Airlines jet that crashed in San Francisco on July 6, 2013, mismanaged their landing approach and inadvertently shut off an automatic speed control system that might have prevented the accident.

A tsunami warning has been issued for parts of Alaska's Aleutian Island chain after a powerful earthquake.

From the filmer "I filmed this approx. 10-15 minutes after the fire started . I was filming a friends boat in south bay close by when we saw the smoke coming from The marine groups yard. This was fascinating to watch through my monitor, but having a boat myself,I couldn't help thinking of how horrible it would be to have your dream boat go up in flames. I'm sure the insurance will replace it, but wow , what a bummer and a hassle."

Rescuers scoured the debris of leveled homes in northeast Nebraska early Tuesday for people trapped under the rubble after deadly twin twisters wreaked havoc...

Relatives of the those who went missing on Malaysia flight MH370 have marked 100 days since the plane vanished.

A vacant luxury house appears on the verge of tumbling 75 feet into a Central Texas lake because a cliff is collapsing beneath the property. Hill County Sheriff's Office Chief Deputy Mark Wilson says another chunk of cliff broke off Tuesday night.

New Zealand daily, the Sunday Star Times, has reported that Mike McKay, the New Zealander who claimed to have sighted a burning aircraft going down off the Vietnamese coast in March, has been sacked from his job following that claim.

Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan is in critical condition in hospital after a limo- bus he was riding in overturned during a six-vehicle pileup in the early hours of Saturday.

Wind-driven hail damaged nearly every building in Blair, Nebraska.

A Marine jet crashed into a residential area and destroyed two homes in a Southern California desert community Wednesday, but no one was injured, authorities said.

All seven people on board an Atlantic City-bound private jet were killed when the plane crashed and caught fire shortly after takeoff from a Massachusetts airfield late Saturday.

The four acoustic pings at the center of the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 for the past seven weeks are no longer believed to have come from the plane's black boxes, a U.S. Navy official told CNN. The acknowledgment came Wednesday as searchers wrapped up the first phase of their effort, having scanned 329 square miles of southern Indian Ocean floor without finding any wreckage from the Boeing 777-200.

Raw satellite transmission data from the vanished Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, released on Tuesday by the Malaysian government, provided further evidence that the plane crashed into the Indian Ocean after flying south and running out of fuel.

The Soma coal mine, where 301 workers lost their lives in a May 13 disaster, received a “perfect” score in March by an official inspector, who is the brother-in-law of a senior executive of the company, daily Hürriyet has revealed.

Screaming and crying, a hapless crew, and a dive into the water—as the prosecution wraps up its case against the Costa Concordia’s captain, The Daily Beast talks exclusively to two passengers who wish they could tell the court what really happened.

At least 20 people are feared dead in Bosnia-Hercegovina and Serbia after the worst floods in more than a century.

Several people have died, two others were missing and thousands were awaiting evacuation Thursday in towns completely cut off by the worst floods in more than a century in parts of the Balkan region. In Croatia gale-force winds uprooted trees, and record rainfall has been measured in the country's north. In Serbia a man has died and two people were missing, while several hundred residents were evacuated as floodwaters cut off roads and flooded homes.

Brush fires broke out in more than half a dozen spots in northern San Diego County and spread at a dangerous pace as hot, dry, erratic winds, backed by record temperatures, raked Southern California for a second day Wednesday.