Gunmen intercepted a vehicle carrying salaries of Iraqi government employees in western Baghdad and made off with nearly $600,000, police officials told CNN on Sunday.
The death toll rose to at least 127 people on Sunday after massive landslides hit northwest China, state media reported.About 2,000 more people are missing after the landslides,
Rescuers dug through crushed homes and piles of mud Sunday searching for 500 people still missing after flash floods sent massive mudslides down remote desert
The BBC's Orla Guerin joined a Pakistani army helicopter crew on a mission into the disaster zone Rescue teams in northern Pakistan are battling to reach
Russian emergency services are continuing to battle spreading wildfires over large areas of the west of the country Tuesday as authorities said the death toll had risen to 40.
A powerful earthquake shook a remote Aleutian Island region of Alaska late Saturday, but there were no reports of damage or injury and no threat of a tsunami, officials said.
Landslides slammed into three mountain hamlets in western China early Tuesday, killing 17 people and leaving 44 missing, while crews drained a fast-rising reservoir
Ugandan police have found an unexploded suicide vest and made a number of arrests after coordinated bomb blasts ripped through two bars and killed at least 76 soccer fans watching the World Cup final on Sunday.
Hurricane Alex was becoming stronger in the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday, but was expected to skirt oil fields before making landfall later in the day or early Thursday.
A strong earthquake hit southern Mexico's Oaxaca state early Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.The magnitude 6.2 quake rattled the region at 2:22 a.m.
Rescuers combed wrecked cars and homes for bodies in France's Cote d'Azur on Thursday after the worst floods in two centuries killed 25 people including a two-year-old, authorities said.
Employees at Southwest Airlines discovered the clumsily duct-taped containers of heads last week in Little Rock. After they reported their grim discovery to police, the heads were turned over to the local coroner.
Kyrgyzstan's interim president said Friday that the death toll from the ethnic clashes that have rocked the country's south could be near 2,000, as she made her first
Landslides triggered by heavy rain in southeast Bangladesh buried dozens of houses and an army camp on Tuesday, killing at least 58 people, officials said.
Floodwaters that tore through an Arkansas campground, killing at least 16 people, also washed away records of who was there, making the daunting search
Floodwaters that rose as swiftly as 8 feet an hour rushed into a remote Arkansas valley early Friday, killing at least 16 people, many of them campers who
state official says at least 65 people are dead and about 200 are injured after a passenger train was derailed and then hit by another train in eastern India.
BP Plc faces a defining day in its five-week Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster on Thursday when its latest attempt to seal a gushing well deep underwater will be deemed either a success or a failure.
Scientists in Iceland say the volcanic eruption that disrupted global air travel is winding down — but it's not over yet.Icelandic experts told reporters
Nearly 160 people are feared dead after a passenger jet crashed on landing in the southern Indian city of Mangalore.Air India Express said there were seven survivors among
The death toll from a Russian coal mine accident has reached 60, with 30 people still missing, the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said Wednesday.
An eight-year-old Dutch boy was the sole survivor when a Libyan plane arriving from South Africa exploded on landing at Tripoli airport on Wednesday, killing 103 people, officials said.
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