On July 6th, 1988, disaster struck! Once the pride of the North Seaturned into one of the deadliest man-made infernos in ...

An investigation by the Independent Office for Police Misconduct has focused on amendments made to officers' accounts and ...

December 2, 1984 The Bhopal Gas disaster, when a gas leak from the Union Carbide plant, exposes over 500,000 people to the ...

Tornadoes are officially the scariest natural disaster, according to new research. A survey of 2,500 Americans split evenly by U.S. region found that regardless of where they live, the threat of a ...

More than 30 hours after the blaze began at Wang Fuk Court, there was still a sense that it is far from under control.

A new analysis of search data found that survivors turned to the Internet for information immediately following several of the world’s worst disasters in the past six years. According to Ryan Falor, ...

Sri Lanka is facing one of its worst flood disasters in two decades, with nearly one million people affected and more than 400 reported dead or missing after Cyclone Ditwah unleashed catastrophic ...

In today’s video, we rank the 10 States with the Most Extreme Weather — the places where the climate isn’t just unpredictable, it’s downright hostile. From hurricane-prone coastal states to frozen ...

Today is the tenth anniversary of the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, which blew apart as it was gliding across Texas to a Florida landing. All seven crew members died, and Texans were poking ...