The flooding tragedy nobody has ever heard of: 150th anniversary of Sheffield disaster where at least 240 died when a new dam burst

As a gale swept through Sheffield on the night of Friday, March 11, 1864, water engineer William Horsfield was sheltering under the town's new dam when he noticed a crack. It was only wide enough...

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Search crews from nine countries looking for flight MH370

Search crews involving nine countries are working “every hour, every minute, every second” across a huge swathe of the South China Sea but have yet to find any evidence of the missing Malaysia Airlines...

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42 African refugees drown off Yemeni coast

About 42 African refugees drowned Sunday evening off the Yemeni coast when their boat capsized in the Gulf of Aden, the Yemeni government said, adding while about 30 people were rescued, search was...

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Train fire: Victims’ identity confirmed

Almost two months after a fire broke out in the Dehradun Express on January 8, killing nine passengers near Dahanu station, the DNA test performed for the second time has confirmed that the unidentified...

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‘Strange object’ is not debris from missing Malaysia jet: source

The mysteries surrounding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and the true identities of some of its passengers, are as deep as the southeast Asian waters where multinational search...

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Thousands of tsunami victims still missing in Japan three years after disaster

More than 2,600 people remain missing in Japan three years after the nation was hit by a major earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster, according to the latest police figures. Search operations...

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6 Plane Mysteries of the Last 60 Years

It has been nearly two days since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 and all 239 passengers, including three Americans, on board mysteriously disappeared off the radar above the South China Sea. No...

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