Very few rental units have basements, John Cramer says.

At least 17 people have been killed after an explosion and fire at a coal mine in western Turkey, officials say.

An explosion and fire at a coal mine in western Turkey has killed at least one miner and left at least 200 others trapped, an official said Tuesday.

Family cat presumed killed in the tsunami disaster that ravaged northeast Japan three years ago is reunited with owners after being found safe nine miles away

If you write about the things put up on screens, people often ask what you are looking forward to. The Cannes Festival will soon begin, and there is plenty there I want to see—Tommy Lee Jones’s The Homesman for one (he’s a gentler director than he is an actor), Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner (with Timothy Spall as the painter), and new films by Cronenberg and Godard. But the screen event that I anticipate with most desire and dread will occur on Sunday, July 13...

In Batanes, the northernmost islands of the Philippines, a small indigenous population routinely survives the most violent storms in the world. But in an era of unprecedented weather disturbances, can centuries-old methods of adaptation survive modernization and economic struggle?

The 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon well blowout vomited more than 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and onto its shores--the largest accidental, offshore oil spill in history. It killed wildlife, tainted fisheries, and damaged coastal ecosystems from marshes in Louisiana to beaches in Florida. But due to a paucity of data, the true extent of the damage is still not yet known, especially where bird mortality is concerned.

A major increase in seismic activity led to a rare earthquake warning today for Oklahoma from the U.S. Geological Survey and Oklahoma Geological Survey.

A passenger train derailed in western India on Sunday, killing at least 19 people and injuring more than 100, police said. The engine and four of the 20 coaches jumped the tracks near Roha station, 110 kilometers (70 miles) south of Mumbai, said police officer Ankush Shinde.

Six people were dead and at least 19 others were missing after a ferry capsized Saturday when it was caught in a storm in the south of Bangladesh, a government official said. The ferry, MV Shatil, sank in the middle of a river near c, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) south of the capital Dhaka.

At least 350 people have been killed and many more are missing, the UN says, after a landslide hit the north-east Afghan province of Badakhshan. Hundreds of homes were buried under mud and rocks when a section of a mountain collapsed following torrential rain. Rescuers have reached the area and are searching for survivors.

There were more oil train explosions in 2013 than in the the previous four decades of record-keeping combined. Lest anyone get the impression that it was merely an isolated year of bad luck for the oil-hauling business, another spectacular derailment hit Lynchburg, Virginia last night.

In the end, nature always wins.

In one video, the captain of the sinking South Korean ferry scrambles to safety. In another, stranded passengers panic. "Wow, it's tilting a lot. We're tilting to this side. Can't move," one says. "You think I'm really going to die?" another cries. The two recordings fueled fresh outrage Monday over the Sewol ferry's sinking as questions swirled over why so many perished in the disaster while many members of the ship's crew survived.

Anyone familiar with modern Malaysia—and hey, that should include almost everybody in this era of MH370 coverage—knows the name "Dr. Mahathir." For more than two decades, Mahathir Mohamad, originally trained as a medical doctor, was prime minister of Malaysia. To put it in perspective for Americans, this was a span that included all of Ronald Reagan's time in office, plus that of the first George Bush, plus all of Bill Clinton's, plus much of George W. Bush's first term.

More than 100 people have been killed and thousands left homeless by flash floods in north and west Afghanistan, officials said on Friday, prompting desperate pleas for help from the impoverished provincial authorities.

Malaysia has sent its preliminary report on the disappearance of Flight 370, but hasn't released it publicly. And that is raising eyebrows. "It just adds fuel to the fire - which is like a furnace now - of disbelief, particularly in China, as to what is going on," said Geoffrey Thomas, managing director of AirlineRatings.com. Malaysia has insisted it has nothing to hide.

Australian officials have confirmed that debris — potentially from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 — was found washed up on a western Australia beach. The debris was discovered around 198.8 miles from Perth, and roughly 1,000 miles away from the center of the Indian Ocean search zone. Australian police have secured the debris, and authorities from both Australia and Malaysia are examining photographs.

This guy really fucking ate shit.

Prosecutors expanded their investigation into the owner of the sunken South Korean passenger ferry on Wednesday as inspectors confirmed the cargo weight declared by the ship on its final voyage was three times the recommended maximum. Officials from Chonghaejin Marine Co., the operator of the ferry, were banned from leaving the country as investigators raided the offices of the company, its affiliates, the residence of the firm's owner, as well as other companies he owns.