A slow-motion disaster is unfolding in the Wyoming resort town of Jackson as a creeping landslide that split a hillside home in half inches toward more houses and businesses below.

A passenger bus slammed into a broken-down truck and burst into flames, killing at least 36 people Sunday in southern Mexico, the Veracruz state government reported. Both state and federal officials said that four people survived the crash, which occurred shortly after midnight in the southeastern state of Veracruz.

PERTH, Australia (AP) -- Following four strong underwater signals in the past week, all has gone quiet in the hunt for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, meaning the batteries in the plane's all-important black boxes may finally have died.

A wildfire was raging in a highly populated area of Chile early Sunday after killing two people and consuming more than 500 homes, officials said. At least one more person has been injured in the flames that have swept over at least 660 acres, said Chile's National Emergency Office (ONEMI).

A plane crash at Smolensk in Russia four years ago wiped out the Warsaw leadership. It used to be seen as an accident. Now, after Putin’s games in Ukraine, people aren’t so sure.

Initial reports put the quake’s magnitude at 7.3, but the USGS later downgraded its severity to 7.1. There have not been serious injuries or damage reported as a result of the quake.

Australia announces one of its vessels picked up possible underwater signal, adding to two detections by Chinese ship.

The Super Outbreak of 1974 spawned 148 tornadoes and killed 330 people.

Malaysia says final words to air traffic control were 'Goodnight, Malaysian Three Seven Zero', contradicting an earlier version

The shell was found at a construction site by builders who then sold it to a suburban scrap metal merchant believing the bomb had been defused. At least six people died and 18 others were injured Wednesday when a suspected World War II bomb exploded at a scrap metal warehouse in Bangkok as workers tried to cut it open, officials said.

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On Monday, when Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 “ended in the southern Indian Ocean,” it wasn’t simply a concession to the reality of the situation. It was a signal to the carrier’s insurance companies, and to lawyers around the world.

Video of a worker who was stranded on the top floor of an apartment comlex that burned today in Houston.

Fire Near AIG Campus, the Houston fire department saves the day.

Cellphones don't work like landlines; when you call them, the ringing happens on the network server, not on the other phone.

On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez struck a reef in the Prince William Sound in Alaska. Here are some of the largest oil spills ever.

In the sixteen days since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 left Kuala Lumpur and failed to land in Beijing, setting off a search that has involved two dozen nations, more than three million square miles, and at least three hundred relentless hours of cable-news coverage, we seem to have learned everything about the missing plane apart from its final location: the safety record of Boeing 777s, the political commitments of its pilot, the data from its ACARS transmissions...

New information shows the aircrew was trying to bring the Boeing 777 to safety, not commit mass murder as the Malaysian government implied.

At least three people have been killed and several badly injured in a huge landslide in a rural area of the north-western American state of Washington, officials say.