Rescuers combed the debris-strewn banks of a river in central Japan on Monday, searching for drowning victims after homes were swept away in flooding and landslides that claimed at least seven lives.

A security source claimed that the explosion of pager devices in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, is one of the biggest intelligence and espionage intrusions. It is said that so far more than 1000 people have been ...

The death toll from the flooding in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi has doubled, reaching 226 in Myanmar, state media reported.

Vietnamese authorities announced that the death toll of the strong typhoon Yagi has reached 65 and 39 others are still missing as of this morning (Tuesday).

At least nine people died after their boat sank off the coast of Senegal, the navy said on Monday, in the latest migration-linked tragedy to occur off West Africa.

The death toll in Vietnam from Typhoon Yagi jumped to 59, state media reported on Monday, as business leaders said the storm had been a “disaster” for the country’s vital manufacturing sector.

At least 48 people were killed on Sunday in a fuel tanker truck explosion following a collision with another vehicle in north-central Nigeria, the state’s disaster management agency said.

A British man was on Friday jailed for nine years for arson at a hotel housing asylum seekers during anti-Muslim riots, by far the longest sentence imposed over recent widespread violent disorder.

China's Wenchang city, in the north-east of Hainan Island, on Friday was hit by the most powerful typhoon in a decade. 

A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower fire on Wednesday blamed the disaster on failings by government, the construction industry and most of all the firms involved in fitting the exterior ...

Seven people were rescued and 21 people are missing at sea after a migrant shipwreck off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, Italian news reports and UN officials said on Wednesday.

Four people, including a young girl, were killed and two others seriously injured when a Sarache vehicle skidded off the road in Ashkasham and Shaghnan districts of Badakhshan province, the police spokesman said....