Climate change has made deadly heatwaves and hurricanes, along with droughts and flooding, both more frequent and more intense in recent years, according to a UN report released Tuesday.
Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump battled over the strength of the economy in the final stretch of their race for the White House on Friday, with Clinton praising the latest US ...
A strong earthquake measuring 6.6 magnitude struck central Italy on Sunday, causing the collapse of more buildings in small cities and towns already shaken by tremors in the past two months ...
A stampede at a religious gathering in northern India killed 12 people Saturday as thousands of devotees of a controversial guru tried to cross a bridge at once, police said.
An explosion at a chemical fertiliser factory left at least 200 people needing medical treatment after toxic gas spread across large parts of Bangladesh's second city Chittagong, officials said Tuesday.
On April 1, the Sri Lankan government paid 300mn rupees ($2mn) as a premium to buy its first national natural disaster
A landslide triggered by strong winds killed at least 10 construction workers in northern India on Monday, police said.
Egypt deployed a submarine on Sunday to hunt for the EgyptAir plane that crashed in deep Mediterranean waters, President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said ...
Three people died and four others were critically injured Saturday after a highly active volcano in western Indonesia erupted violently, shooting hot ash ...
Around 150 people are feared dead after more than three days of heavy rain triggered two landslides in central Sri Lanka, disaster officials said ...
The organiser of a party which saw a fireball rip through a Taiwan waterpark, leaving 15 dead and hundreds injured, was jailed for almost five years Tuesday as the court cited the ‘excruciating pain’ of the bereaved.
Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers demanded justice on the anniversary Sunday of one of the world's worst industrial disasters, the collapse of the Rana Plaza factory ...
