Two dead, four injured as two buildings collapse in north Cairo
Two people were killed and four others injured in the collapse of two buildings in north Cairo's Rod El-Farg…
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Mexicans race to save schoolgirl buried by quake; death toll at 237
Mexican rescuers raced against the clock on Wednesday to save a 12-year-old girl trapped beneath a collapsed…
Strong quake near Mexico City kills at least 226, rescuers dig through collapsed buildings
Rescue crews and ordinary citizens searched through rubble for survivors as night fell on Tuesday on battered…
Devastating mudslides kill 254 in Colombia
Devastating mudslides in the Colombian town of Mocoa killed at least 254 people including 43 children, President…
Colombia landslide kills 154 on city outskirts, scores injured
A landslide in Colombia's southwestern border province of Putumayo sent mud and debris crashing onto houses…
Migrant disaster: Skipper guilty over 700 Mediterranean deaths
A Tunisian man has been found guilty by a court in Sicily of causing the sinking of a boat in which 700 migrants…
240 drowned in two migrant shipwrecks
About 240 migrants are believed drowned in two shipwrecks off the coast of Libya, migration officials say. The UN…
Hopes of finding Ecuador quake survivors fade as death toll nears 500
Rescuers in Ecuador were losing hope on Tuesday of finding more survivors from an earthquake that killed nearly 500…
Japan quake survivors struggle with shortages, search for missing goes on
Survivors of a series of Japanese quakes measuring up to 7.3 struggled on Tuesday with shortages of food and water…
Ecuador hunts for survivors as severe quake kills 272
Traumatized Ecuadoreans slept amid rubble while rescuers dug for survivors on Monday after an earthquake smashed…
Damaged infrastructure deters search, aid for Japan quake survivors
The desperate search for survivors intensified on Sunday in the splintered remains of buildings destroyed by…
Two more Taiwan quake survivors found, toll could exceed 100
Rescuers pulled two survivors from the rubble of a Taiwan apartment block on Monday more than 48 hours after it was…
Some U.S. bond funds bet on high-yield survivors of oil carnage
High-yield energy bonds are on track for their worst year since the global financial crisis yet some funds are…
Indonesian rescuers say no survivors at wreckage of crashed plane
All 54 people on board a Trigana Air aircraft were killed in a crash two days ago in Indonesia's Papua province,…
Hundreds still missing after Yangtze cruise ship sinks
Rescuers cut three more people from the wreckage of a capsized Chinese cruise ship Tuesday as workers battled to…
Nepal quake: ‘No chance’ to find more Survivors
Nepal's authorities have ruled out finding more survivors of last week's earthquake under the rubble, as the death…