Typhoon Nesat pounded the Philippines Tuesday, bringing heavy rain and 93 mph winds. The island nation was already soaked by monsoon rains when Nesat made landfall about 120 miles north of Manila around 5 a.m. The storm sparked strong waves, mass ...
Two sophisticated narco subs were discovered Friday in Colombia, authorities announced Monday. Col. Carlos Enrique Rodriguez, the deputy director of the National Police narcotics squad, said “intelligence work” led authorities to the submarines.
Two Americans were among 19 people killed in a plane crash in Nepal over the weekend. Officials say the Beechcraft plane operated by Buddha Air was carrying 16 passengers and 3 crew members when it slammed into the side of a mountain about 7 mile ...
A shooting at a CIA compound inside the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan left one United States citizen dead and another wounded. American officials say the gunman was an Afghan employee of the embassy. He opened fire Sunday evening with no app ...
Days after gunmen left two trucks full of bodies in the middle of a road in the state of Veracruz, Mexican authorities discovered 11 more bodies in the same area. The state-run Notimex news agency reports the bodies were found in four different l ...
Japanese officials say the death toll from Typhoon Roke rose to 11 on Thursday. At least 5 people remain missing and are feared dead.
In brief statements released upon their arrival in Oman, American hikers Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer expressed their happiness and gratitude for being released from Evin Prison in Iran.
Authorities in eastern Mexico are investigating the deaths of at least 35 men and women whose bodies were found falling out of two trucks abandoned in the middle of a roadway on Wednesday. Veracruz state Attorney General Raynaldo Escobar Perez sa ...
More than two years after their arrest, American hikers Shane Bauer and Joshua Fattal have been released from Evin prison in Iran. CNN reports Bauer and Fattal were released to an Omani official Wednesday after each posted $500,000 bail. Iranian ...
Japanese authorities urged more than 1 million residents of Nagoya to evacuate the city ahead of Typhoon Roke, which is expected to make landfall Wednesday. An estimated 60 people have heeded the evacuation warnings so far. Authorities expect mor ...
More than two dozen people have been confirmed dead and hundreds of others injured following Sunday evening’s earthquake along the border of India and Nepal. The epicenter of the 6.9 magnitude earthquake was located in the Indian state of Sikkim ...
A strong earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean near the Fiji Islands Friday morning around 7:30 local time, the U.S. Geological Survey announced. The epicenter of the 7.3 magnitude earthquake was located about 74 miles south-southwest of Ndoi Is ...
Severe flooding in the Indian state of Orissa forced about 193,000 people from their homes and killed more than two dozen others, officials confirmed Thursday. Heavy monsoon rains over the past week caused rivers to overflow and swamp 19 of Oriss ...
Nearly 48 hours after a rescue operation began in South Wales for four trapped miners, authorities say all four men have been found dead. The men, who have been identified by the media as Phillip Hill, 45, Charles Breslin, 62, David Powell, 50, a ...
New Zealand, Japan and Cuba were hit by earthquakes within one hour of each other Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey reports.
An Angola National Air Force aircraft carrying 23 people crashed during takeoff Wednesday. According to reports, the Embraer-120 went down around 11:30 a.m. at Albano Machado Airport in Huambo province.
Norwegian police confirmed two people died and nine others were wounded Thursday morning when a fire broke out on board a cruise ship as it traveled from Bergen to Kirkenes.
A man with mental health problems killed six people with an axe Wednesday morning in the central China province of Henan. Authorities identified the suspect as 30-year-old farmer Wang Hongbin. The motive for the attack is unclear.
Afghan officials say a total of 14 people died Tuesday in the Taliban’s nearly day-long siege on the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters, and Afghan police compounds in Kabul. The dead included 11 civilians and 3 police officers. At least 9 people we ...
The National Disaster Management Authority says heavy rain and flooding in southeast Pakistan is expected to continue into next week.