Disaster

One person was taken to hospital and eight were treated at the scene for injuries. The zoo said an aardvark, called Misha, had died in the fire and that four meerkats were unaccounted for London Zoo...

Tembin, with winds of up to 80km/h (50 mph), has now passed across Mindanao and is heading towards the southern tip of Palawan before moving further west. The Philippines suffers regularly from deadly tropical storms, although...

The deaths were reported in the small island province of Biliran, a day after the storm pounded the east of the archipelago nation. Landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Kai-Tak have killed 26 people and 23 more...

Earthquakes occur frequently in New Zealand as the country is situated in the collision zone between the Indo-Australian and Pacific tectonic plates, part of the Pacific Basin Ring of Fire, where many earthquakes and volcanoes occur....

The fire was said to start on the fourth floor of the building in the city’s Zhonghe District at around 8:00 p.m. and quickly spread to rooms on the fifth floor before being put down an...

The earthquake was felt in several western provinces of Iran, but the hardest hit province was Kermanshah, which announced three days of mourning. More than 300 people were killed in Iran when a magnitude 7.3 earthquake...

News Hour: A mild earthquake has rocked the Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh in the morning, leaving high-rise buildings shaken in the cities and leading to panic among citizens. According to Somoy TV, the earthquake originated...

News Hour: A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of New Caledonia on Tuesday in the tectonically active Pacific region, but there was no tsunami threat, seismologists said. The tremor hit at a depth of 29...

News Hour: Torrential rains in Nicaragua have left at least five people dead as rivers burst their banks, flooding homes, and damaging roads and bridges, the government said on Thursday. Two other people are missing in...

News Hour Nicaragua signed the Paris climate agreement Monday, leaving the United States and Syria as the only two holdouts on the global climate pact. The government of President Daniel Ortega said the global 2015 pact...