Residents in several states endured a second straight night of violent weather on Tuesday, a day after a series of powerful storms in Arkansas killed 10 people in flooding and a tornado that twisted a

Residents in several states endured a second straight night of violent weather on Tuesday, a day after a series of powerful storms in Arkansas killed 10 people in flooding and a tornado that twisted a

Soviet efforts to contain the Chernobyl nuclear disaster were much better than Japan's 'slow-motion' response to the disaster at Fukushima nuclear plant, according to a leading member of the 1986 reco

An earthquake measuring 5.0 on the Richter scale struck Jammu and Kashmir on Monday morning. The epicentre of the quake was located in Pakistan, the local disaster management authority said.

"The ear

A series of strong earthquakes hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi early on Monday, damaging houses and causing panic, officials said, but they had no word on casualties.

Reports from the area said

Japan will send nearly 25,000 soldiers backed by boats and aircraft into its disaster zone on Monday on an intensive land-and-sea mission to recover the bodies of those killed by last month's earthqua

A strong 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Solomon Islands on Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning was issued.

The US Geological Survey (U

Japan's cabinet approved on Friday almost $50 billion of spending for post-earthquake rebuilding, a downpayment on the country's biggest public works effort in six decades.

The emergency budget of 4

The breast milk of four Japanese mothers has been found to contain small quantities of radioactive iodine.

This development has led to pressure being brought on the government to initiate a full inve

At least 17 people were killed and 118 were injured after hailstorms, cloudburst and strong winds ravaged a south China province, officials said Monday.

Gales as strong as 45.5 metres per second, acc