The death toll from a shopping centre fire in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, has risen to at least 55. Relatives of those still missing have criticized the slow rescue operation at the three-storey...
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....
Freezing rain and snow fall in Texas, with the storm expected to move to the northeast this weekend. More than 210 million people were under cold weather advisories or warnings....
On Sunday night, Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah said families had reported about 60 people missing, prompting authorities to launch a search operation....
Many US states have issued a state of emergency due to the severe snow and ice storm, which is set to move from Texas across the country to the northeastern cities of New York and Boston....
DW's Stuart Braun had a dangerously near miss during Australia's 2009 "Black Saturday" inferno. As this month's fires burned near his rural home, he wasn't taking any chances....
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 ...
An overnight Russian bombardment on Kyiv left thousands of residential buildings and parliament without heating and water in -14C temperatures on Tuesday, just as the Ukrainian capital was scrambling ...
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...
Officials are continuing to investigate the causes of the incident that Spanish Transport Minister Ă“scar Puente has called "strange" since it occurred on a straight line and neither train was speeding...
Russia has been pounding Ukraine's energy system since the start of the war, in what Kyiv says is an attempt to sap morale and weaken Ukrainians' resistance....
Many US states issued a state of emergency as residents prepare for an ice storm. The cold front is expected to hit Texas and travel all the way to the northeastern cities of New York and Boston....
More than 30 million in the South are under a winter storm watch this weekend, from Texas to Tennessee....
Life is slowly returning to normal in Russia’s far east after what residents are calling a “snow apocalypse.” A powerful cyclone dumped record snowfall on the Kamchatka region, burying homes, blocking...
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian homes are either entirely without heating, or with severely reduced heating. This, as temperatures rarely rise above minus 10. It’s the result of Russia’s campaign o...
Russia has deliberately attacked Ukraine's energy grid, as sub-zero temperatures take hold. Many are without power, heating or water so locals in Kyiv have been sharing their solutions for staying war...
Most of the US is bracing for a prolonged stretch of frigid weather and a massive winter storm that could wreak havoc on roads and power grids over the next several days. At least 170 million American...
More than 170 million people are on alert for a brutal weekend storm....
Rescuers have retrieved remains of many more victims from a gutted mall in Pakistan's Karachi, with dozens still missing. The cause of the disaster is still not known....
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