Sri Lanka's president Anura Kumara Dissanayake said in a televised speech on Sunday (November 30) that the country faced 'the ...

Several weather disasters in US history have killed over 1,000 people. The largest was precisely 125 years ago, when a ...

Escalating activity along a fault line in the Sea of Marmara is moving closer to Istanbul, seismologists warn.

Fifty years after a fire raged through Kirkgate Market in Leeds, Laura Reid hears about a heritage project telling the ...

In Thailand, authorities say they have seen one of the heaviest single events of rainfall in hundreds of years, followed by ...

Authorities in Sri Lanka are racing against time to rescue hundreds of missing people as death toll from rain and flooding caused by Cyclone Ditwah rose to 366 in one of the worst disasters the island ...

One of the most devastating natural disasters in Detroit history struck 51 years ago on this date, turning the days after Thanksgiving into a surreal winter nightmare for the city.

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is a spectacular annual event marched by thousands and watched by millions — and a massive undertaking with countless moving parts. Inevitably, mistakes happen, ...

At a time when Sri Lanka and a few countries in Southeast Asia are struggling to recover from a post-cyclonic devastation it ...