Fallen trees, downed power lines and rockfalls - the road to India's deadliest earthquake in a decade was strewn with the evidence of the tremor's destructive power.

Sunday's powerful 6.8 Himalayan q

Poor management and critical mistakes by BP and its contractors led to the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, according to the final report of the largest U.S. government probe into last year

The flood situation in Orissa remained grim today with the Mahanadi River continuing to flow above the danger mark in the delta region, affecting 14 lakh people and snapping road links with about 1,00

A typhoon that pummelled western Japan left at least 17 people dead and 43 missing on Sunday after swollen rivers swept away buildings and landslides crushed houses.

One of the victims drowned to dea

A major 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Alaska's Aleutian Islands early on Friday, triggering a tsunami warning for the remote region, the US Geological Survey reported.

The quake occurred at 1:55am

As the American East Coast struggled to recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, rising floodwaters forced thousands of evacuations in New Jersey and Connecticut with 13 flooded Vermont towns al

More than 50 people were killed in landslides in eastern Uganda on Monday, Xinhua reported.

Three villages in Bulambuli district were hit by landslides. Twenty-nine bodies were retrieved so far, radi

Super-typhoon Nanmadol left at least 16 people dead after hitting the Philippines, and the toll is expected to rise as hopes of finding those missing fade, the civil defence chief said on Monday.

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At least 33 people were killed Thursday morning when flash floods swept through a valley in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a media report said.

Dozens of houses were destroyed by the flood

The most powerful earthquake to strike the US East Coast in 67 years rattled millions of Americans from Georgia to northern New England and led to evacuation of parts of the White House, Capitol and P