Update: Up to 108 missing after US mudslide

A large rescue operation began soon after the landslide struck on Saturday Authorities say they have 108 reports of people missing or unaccounted for after Saturday's huge landslide in the north-western...

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World Trade Center museum to receive 9/11 victims’ remains

New York City plans to move the remains of unidentified victims in the 2001 terror attack to a new resting place within the 9/11 Memorial Museum. The roughly 8,000 unidentified remains, which are...

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Uganda: Search continues for Lake Albert boat victims

The coxswain (pilot) of the boat that capsized on Lake Albert killing an unspecified number of Congolese refugees has been arrested by police in Kibaale as the search for more bodies continues. As...

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11 killed, eight injured in road accident near Murree

Eleven passengers were killed while a dozen got multiple injuries when a Rawalpindi-bound passenger van plunged into a ravine at a Salgran, a picnic spot in Murree, on Sunday. The bus, which was...

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DNA samples taken: 35 bodies of Hub tragedy yet to be identified

Families of almost all victim of the Saturday tragic accident on the RCD Highway near Hub are anxiously waiting for the identification of the bodies of their loved ones so that they could take the...

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8 dead after massive Washington mudslide, at least a dozen missing

Searchers have found five more bodies in the sludge of a massive landslide in the northwestern state of Washington, bringing the death toll to at least eight from the wall of debris that swept through...

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