BANGKOK — Thailand’s construction industry is under intense scrutiny following a series of high-profile deadly accidents. These include a crane falling onto a moving passenger train this past…
Read more Why Thailand’s deadly construction accidents are sparking outrage and scrutinyNEW YORK — An explosion at a New York City apartment building blew off a massive chimney that ran up the side of the high-rise, leaving residents to…
Read more What to know about the blast that blew a 20-story chunk out of a Bronx buildingNEW YORK — A massive brick chimney running 20 stories up the side of a New York City apartment building collapsed after an explosion Wednesday, sending tons of…
Read more Residents of NYC public housing tower escape unharmed after massive chimney collapsesFive unoccupied houses along North Carolina’s Outer Banks collapsed into the ocean Tuesday as Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda rumbled in the Atlantic, the National Park Service said, marking…
Read more 5 homes collapse into the surf of the Outer Banks as hurricanes rumble in AtlanticMANILA, Philippines — An offshore earthquake of magnitude 6.9 collapsed walls of houses and buildings late Tuesday in a central Philippine province, killing at least 31 people, injuring…
Read more Strong earthquake kills 31 people in a central Philippine region hit by deadly storm just days agoBUXTON, N.C. — A beachfront stilt home along the Outer Banks in North Carolina has collapsed into the surf, bringing the total number of houses claimed by the…
Read more Another beachfront stilt house collapses into the surf on the Outer BanksMAUMERE, Indonesia — Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency said Monday that at least six people have died as a series of volcanic eruptions widens on the remote island…
Read more Volcanic eruption burns houses in Indonesia, killing at least 6 peopleGREENVILLE, N.C. — Kamala Harris used an appearance Sunday before a largely Black church audience in battleground North Carolina to call out Donald Trump for spreading misinformation about…
Read more Harris calls out Trump for hurricane misinformationAs the Hurricane Helene-driven waters rose around the Nolichucky River in Tennessee, Boone McCrary, his girlfriend and his chocolate lab headed out on his fishing boat to search…
Read more A Tennessee nurse and his dog died trying to save a man from floods driven by Hurricane HeleneBALTIMORE — Years after immigrating to the U.S. and settling in the Baltimore area, Maria del Carmen Castellón was working toward a new chapter of her family’s American…
Read more For families of Key Bridge collapse victims, a search for justice beginsBERLIN (AP) — Part of a hotel in a winemaking town on the Mosel River in western Germany collapsed, authorities said, leaving two people dead and trapping seven…
Read more Part of a hotel on Germany’s Mosel River collapses, killing 2 and trapping others for hoursBERLIN — Part of a hotel in a winemaking town on the Mosel River in western Germany collapsed, leaving two people dead and several others trapped in the…
Read more Part of a hotel on Germany’s Mosel River collapses. 2 people are dead and others are trappedPHOENIX (AP) — Authorities believe they have found the body of a Phoenix warehouse worker missing for three days after a micro cloud burst caused the roof of…
Read more Body found in Phoenix warehouse 3 days after a storm partially collapsed the roofKYIV, Ukraine — The sky was crystal clear as Oksana Femeniuk took her daughter to Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital for routine dialysis. Around 10 a.m, air-raid sirens blared.…
Read more Kyiv hit with heaviest bombardment in monthsTOKYO — Earthquakes early Monday again struck Japan’s north-central region of Ishikawa, still recovering from the destruction left by a powerful quake on Jan. 1, but the latest…
Read more Earthquakes in north-central Japan collapse 5 homes that were damaged in deadly January quakePESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities said Sunday at least 29 people died and 50 others injured due to heavy rains that swept across the country in the past…
Read more Heavy winter rains in Pakistan kill at least 29 as buildings collapse and landslides block roadsNEW LONDON, Conn. — An historic Connecticut church’s soaring steeple and roof collapsed on Thursday, leaving a gaping hole in the top of the building and the front…
Read more Steeple of historic Connecticut church collapses, no injuries reportedBEIJING — A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck a sparsely populated part of China’s western Xinjiang region early Tuesday, injuring six people and damaging or collapsing more than 120…
Read more 7.1 magnitude earthquake rattles part of western China, injuring 6 people and collapsing 47 homesBEIJING — A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck a sparsely populated part of China’s western Xinjiang region early Tuesday, injuring six people and damaging or collapsing more than 120…
Read more 7.1 magnitude earthquake rattles part of western China, injuring 6 people and collapsing 47 homesTOKYO — Japan’s nuclear safety regulators have told the operator of a nuclear power plant in the area hit by a powerful New Year’s Day quake to study…
Read more Japan's nuclear safety agency orders power plant operator to study the impact of Jan. 1 quake
