Wildfires last January destroyed communities around Los Angeles. Homeowners say recovery has been slowed by fights with insurers to get their claims paid. (Image credit: Josh Edelson)...
Five skiers were killed in a pair of avalanches in the Alpine regions of western Austria on Saturday. Authorities say two others were injured with one having suffered critical wounds....
Preliminary reports indicate 11 schoolchildren died at the scene, with two others succumbing to their injuries later in hospital....
A high-speed train traveling from Malaga to Madrid derailed, crashing into an oncoming train in southern Andalusia. At least 39 people have died with dozens rushed to hospital with injuries. DW has th...
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NASA has ended Crew-11's space stay a few weeks early due to a "lingering risk" to an astronaut's health. The crew is now on its way back to Earth....
A monument of Turkmenistan's former president, in Ashgabat. NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images An Air France flight from India to Paris diverted to Turkmenistan. It was already running almost a ...
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Transport Minister Oscar Puente were among those making their way to the crash site on Monday morning. Sanchez cancelled his trip to the World Economic Forum i...
Firefighters in Karachi began searching on Monday for more than 60 missing people after a massive fire destroyed a shopping centre in Pakistan’s most populous city, while the death toll from the disa...
A paraglider survived a nearly 500-foot fall into the ocean off the coast of Florida, authorities say....
It's opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Spanish Prime Minitster Pedro Sanchez will be a prominent absentee; his office says he won't travel given the huge train crash in Sp...
Ricardo Martinez II spent more than a decade as a 911 dispatcher, handling thousands of emergencies as US 911 centers face a nationwide staffing and funding crisis. Across the country, emergency call ...
The high-speed train was travelling from Bangkok to northeast Thailand....
The train was travelling from Bangkok to northeast Thailand. At least 29 people have died in the accident....
A train travelling from Thailand’s capital to the country’s northeast was derailed on Wednesday after a construction crane fell on top of one of its carriages, killing at least 22 people and injuri...
At least five people have died and several have been injured after the derailment of an Iryo train with 300 passengers on board in Adamuz (Córdoba), which invaded the adjacent track and collided with ...
A massive fire erupted at a Virginia plant on Thursday night, spreading to wooded areas nearby....
Officials called on the local population to stay away from the area, as emergency services rushed to the scene....
Video shows a commuter train demolishing an autonomous food delivery robot that got stuck on the tracks in South Florida....
A water main burst and gushed into the sky in a manner reminiscent of a geyser in San Diego, California on Monday....