A rumbling volcano in western Indonesia that has been spewing lava and clouds of gas high into the sky let out a new, powerful burst Tuesday, prompting warnings for airplanes and triggering panic among villagers, officials said.

These fishermen from the village of Tanauan, have lost their homes and boats during super typhoon 'Haiyan' in the Philippines, but they did not lose heart and began to make boats from abandoned refrigerators. This unusual story told Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj. The idea to make a boat out of...

The pilot of a Mozambican airliner that crashed in Namibia last month deliberately brought the plane down, aviation experts in Mozambique believe. Mozambican Airlines flight TM470 left the capital Maputo bound for Angola on 29 November, but crashed, killing all 33 people all board.

Typhoon Haiyan left more than three million people homeless in the Philippines. For 185 refugees from the storm, their new home is a halfway house in the Mandaluyong area of metropolitan Manila, where they rely day-to-day on relief supplies, hope—however meager or misplaced—and the small connections they can forge with others who have been upended by the storm. This story was reported from there over the course of eight days in late November and early December.

The death toll from Typhoon Haiyan that struck the central Philippines on November 8 has passed 6,000 with nearly 1,800 people missing, officials have said. Twenty-seven bodies, all unidentified, were among the latest to be recovered under debris in typhoon-stricken coastal areas including the hardest hit city of Tacloban, said Major Reynaldo Balido, the spokesman for the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council on Friday.

Arizonans have built more than 200,000 homes deep into forestry wildlands, creating risks for themselves and the firefighters called upon to save them.

The largest fault slip ever seen—which touched off the Japanese tsunami—came courtesy of slippery clay that "greased the wheels," say experts.

Compression Fracture of the T12 Vertebra, 5 stitches to the eye, 6 stitches to the chin, severely sprained Back, wrist and hand. multiple bruised areas.

Workers are suspected of causing a fire that engulfed one of Bangladesh's biggest garment factories which produces clothing for well-known retailers including the Gap and Walmart. Firefighters were still battling flames on Friday after the 10-story building in the industrial district of Gazipur was set ablaze around midnight on Thursday.

For three consecutive days, Coloradans have been besieged by flash flooding, mudslides, floating debris and evacuations. At least four people have died, and as of Thursday morning, 80 have been reported "unaccounted for" and countless structural damages have been reported.

At least four people were killed after a Metro-North Railroad train derailed Sunday morning in the Bronx along the Hudson River, officials said. A total of 67 people were injured — 11 critically — a New York Fire Department spokesman, Jim Long, said.

Authorities have confirmed 8 have died in an accident involving a medical helicopter crashing in a Glasglow Pub in Scotland.

Witnesses spoke of there being 'multiple injuries' at the Clutha Vaults bar, which was hosting a music event

A police helicopter has crashed into a pub on the banks of the River Clyde in Glasgow, it has been reported.

A 5.6 magnitude earthquake has hit Borazjan, Iran, about 35 miles from the country's sole nuclear power plant, killing 7 and injuring 30.

Even while Coke sales are declining, the soft drink giant is still putting its advertising on hold to focus on a more important cause. Coca-Cola announced last week that the company is suspending its brand advertising in the Philippines so that it can donate its entire ad budget to typhoon relief efforts.

Latvia's PM Valdis Dombrovskis has announced his resignation, and thereby the fall of his government, over the deadly collapse of a Riga supermarket.

One year after the Tazreen factory fire in Bangladesh, many retailers that sold garments produced there or inside the Rana Plaza building that collapsed last spring are refusing to join an effort to compensate the families of the more than 1,200 workers who died in those disasters.

Here is what my oldest daughter Josie Taylor Wells And I experienced, I am so glad Kerry Gorman Wells and the other girls were out of town when this storm came through. Very thankful we were not injured.

Four people died and dozens have been left trapped after a supermarket roof collapsed in Latvia, rescuers said. It happened at a Maxima supermarket in the capital Riga on Thursday.