At least four people died and several others were missing in the Indian Himalayas after a group of 41 mountaineers was hit by an avalanche on Tuesday, the mountaineering institute in northern India said. The group, consisting of 34 mountaineering trainees and…
Floods in parts of eastern Uganda resulting from torrential rains have killed at least 24 people, the government and Uganda Red Cross said. The flooding in parts of Bugisu, Mbale and Kapchorwa initially killed 10 people on Sunday, the state…
Major wildfires in Europe are starting earlier in the year, becoming more frequent, doing more damage and getting harder to stop. And, scientists say, they’re probably going to get worse as climate change intensifies unless countermeasures are taken. A mass…
Authorities in Austria have declared a civil emergency after mudslides cut off several villages from rescue services, while at least one person died after heavy rainfall caused flooding in the southern state of Carinthia. Residents of the villages of Treffen and…
At least 17 people were killed and four are missing after flooding hit the central Chinese province of Hunan and a landslide buried parts of several villages in the southern Guangxi region, state media reported. Storms have pummeled Hunan since…
RESCUE teams are frantically searching for a helicopter after it vanished over Italy with seven people onboard. The chopper took off from Capannori Lucca Tassignano airport in Lucca yesterday morning after being privately hired and was due to arrive at…
At least 17 people have been killed and dozens more hurt after a train derailed in eastern Iran, state media report. The train, which was carrying 348 passengers, came off the line between the cities of Mashhad and Yazd about…
Rescue workers have found no survivors in a rescue chamber deep inside a flooded zinc mine in Burkina Faso, the government has said, all but extinguishing hope that eight missing miners could still be alive after a month. The Perkoa…
A fire at a mansion reportedly owned by Beyoncé is being investigated for possible arson. The blaze erupted on Wednesday evening at the mansion in the Garden District of New Orleans. According to local media reports the city’s fire department…
A chalet on a holiday park in Cornwall has been completely destroyed by fire. Crews were called to Whitsand Bay Holiday Park on the Rame Peninsula on the morning of Thursday 22 July to put out the blaze. It is…