Tuesday marks the 28th anniversary since tragedy struck NASA’s space shuttle program for the first time.

Exhausted crews in Quebec on Saturday resumed their search through the remains of a senior home destroyed by a fire that killed 10 residents and left 22 missing and presumed dead. "The conditions are very, very difficult,” police spokesman Lt. Guy Lapointe said in a televised briefing Friday. “Our people are exhausted.” Police said Saturday they brought in de-icing equipment used by boats to help speed up the operation. Frigid temperatures continued to hamper the search

A small plane crash on a remote mountain wouldn’t normally be enough to anger an entire country or threaten the government. Romania, however, is dealing with just this scenario. So far, four senior officials including the interior minister have resigned or been fired after all those onboard a medical flight initially survived Monday’s crash in thick fog. One of the pilots and a medical student later died of hypothermia among other causes after waiting for hours in deep snow to be saved.

A family in Alabama burned their house to the ground after trying to get rid of toilet paper hanging from a tree by setting it on fire. Cheryl Crausewell said local children had “rolled” (thrown toilet paper over) her house and garden on Saturday, and that while it had not been a major issue some remained stuck in a magnolia tree.

There are certain factors that make buildings in New York City more likely to have a fire, including average neighborhood income, the age of the building, and whether it has electrical issues.

A clever idea to let water flow through a home may allow residents in Puget Sound to escape the fate that locals centuries ago could not

A former Halliburton manager was sentenced to one year of probation on Tuesday for destroying evidence in the aftermath of BP's fatal 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, which claimed 11 lives. Anthony Badalamenti, former cementing technology director for Halliburton, which was BP's cement contractor on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, had faced a maximum of one year in prison. The 62-year-old pleaded guilty in October to one count of destruction of evidence.

Years after the disaster, some claim that Fukushima radiation is still going to cause widespread death.

Firefighters rushed to gain control of a fast-moving wildfire in the mountainous Angeles National Forest in an area east of Los Angeles.

A blast at an Argentine research base in Antarctica has killed an army officer. Argentina’s Ministry of Defense says Tuesday’s explosion at the Esperanza base was caused by inflammable material leftovers. The ministry says the blast happened when officers were trying to retrieve the inflammable material but didn’t provide further details.

Four years ago Sunday, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, destroying its capital of Port-au-Prince and killing more than 200,000 people. Today, much of Port-au-Prince looks like it did before the quake. Most of the tent camps in the city itself are gone, and streets are loaded with overcrowded buses and women selling vegetables.

ll up and down the West Coast of the United States, millions of starfish are turning up dead from a mysterious illness that experts have generally dubbed "starfish wasting disease," which involves the creatures' bodies shriveling up and turning into goo.

An ancient town in Shangri-la, a resort county in southwest China's Yunnan Province, caught fire early Saturday

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At least five people have been killed and 12 injured in an explosion at a chemical factory in central Japan. The blast occurred in the afternoon at the plant run by Mitsubishi Materials in Yokkaichi city, Mie prefecture. Maintenance crews were cleaning out a heat exchanger used in the production of silicon products when the blast happened, officials said.

Authorities have extended a danger zone around a rumbling volcano in western Indonesia after it spewed blistering gas farther than expected, forcing panicked residents to flee down the sides of the mountain.

At least one person died when a small plane crashed while trying to land at the Aspen, Colorado, airport Sunday, a spokesman said.

Panicked residents of a mountainside village in western Indonesia were forced to scramble from their homes when a nearby volcano erupted late on Saturday night.

Fourteen people were injured — six of them critically — in a building explosion in Minneapolis that sent flames shooting 20 feet into the air Wednesday morning, authorities said. The ferocity of the blaze pushed back firefighters, who had to battle the flames from the outside with hoses. Not everyone was accounted for, officials said.

Another year of extreme weather brought the Philippines a super typhoon and the United States the widest tornado ever observed, deadly wildfires, severe drought and killer floods.