Next week, workers will likely attempt to flip the shipwrecked Costa Concordia, which has been partially submerged off the coast of Italy for nearly two years.

With rain still falling and flooding and the threat of more still real, rescuers were struggling to reach dozens of people cut off by flooding in Colorado mountain communities, while residents in the Denver area and other downstream communities were warned to stay off flooded streets.

A massive spill of thick molasses has turned Honolulu Harbor into a watery wasteland, with divers reporting that thousands of fish have been suffocated and environmentalists calling it a disaster. “There’s nothing alive there at all,” diver Roger White told&nbs …

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) declared a state of emergency on Thursday while fire crews work to contain a blaze that has ravaged a section of the boardwalk along the New Jersey Shore.

An SUV crossed into incoming traffic and slammed into a sedan in the Pennsylvania city of Kane on Saturday, killing six people, including two children, police said Sunday.

Todd McNeal, fire chief in Twain Harte, a town affected by the Rim Fire that is still burning in California, told a community meeting: “We don’t know the exact cause. … [It is] highly suspect that there might have been some sort of illicit grove, a marijuana-grow-type thing.”

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7 (M7.0) struck in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on 30 August in the early hours of the morning local time.

At least 41 people killed after a bus plunged into a valley west of Nairobi, police officials say.

A cargo train that Central American migrants regularly use to hitch a ride to the United States border has crashed in southern Mexico. Officials say at least five people have been killed. A number of others are trapped under the wreckage.

At least 33 people were feared killed and 16 injured when a bus carrying tourists plunged into a deep ravine near the popular Genting Highlands resort in Malaysia on Wednesday.

Rapid use of imaging was critical in stemming marathon's death toll, researcher says

A train ran over a group of Hindu pilgrims crossing railroad tracks in eastern India early Monday, killing at least 35 people. An angry mob beat the driver severely and set fire to coaches in retaliation, officials said.

At least 31 people have died and around 170 are missing after a ferry collided with a cargo ship in the Philippines.

The autopsy conducted on five Navymen, whose bodies were extricated from submarine INS Sindhurakshak, has found that they died due to severe burns and drowning, even as divers continued search operations for other personnel who were on board, on Saturday.

A wind-driven wildfire burned its way through sage and pine trees near the Idaho mountain resort community of Sun Valley as sheriff's deputies expanded evacuation orders to 1,600 homes.

U.S. government investigators were hoping Friday that cockpit voice and flight data recorders, pulled from the wreckage of a UPS cargo plane that crashed early Wednesday, would help pinpoint the cause of the accident which killed the jet's pilot and co-pilot.

Eighteen Indian sailors were trapped and some killed after an explosion and a fire on a diesel-powered submarine berthed at the naval dockyard here early on Wednesday.

A UPS cargo jumbo jet crashed and erupted into flames a half-mile from the airport in Birmingham, Ala., this morning. The two pilots on board died in the crash, according to local police.

Highly radioactive water from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is pouring out at a rate of 300 tons a day, officials said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the government to step in and help in the clean-up.

The boys, ages 5 and 7, were found dead Monday morning at an apartment in Campbellton, New Brunswick. They had been sleeping over at a friend's apartment above a reptile store, according to a statement from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.