The fire broke out on the 17th floor of the building on Victoria Street.

Hurricane Beryl has strengthened to a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 storm as it razed several islands in the Caribbean, the US National Hurricane Center said on Tuesday. Up to 7 storms of Category…

The death toll in the George building collapse has risen to 13 with 40 people still unaccounted for.

MADRID (AP) — Spanish police have arrested three people for the deaths last November of five migrants who were threatened with a machete and forced to jump off the boat they were traveling in with dozens of other migrants, authorities said Monday.

The cloud is made of a colourless but strong-smelling gas that should leave the British Isles by Wednesday evening.

The 2023 Sikkim glacial outburst flood was one of the worst climate-related disasters to have occurred in Asia in the year. Climate change-induced glacier retreat makes such disasters more common.

Fairgoers were left dangling in the air with a terrifying view of the drop to the ground when bosses shut down their ride at Six Flags theme park in Mexico City because of the weather.

Thai police said they were investigating whether the fire was caused by negligence, and filed several initial charges against the driver.

An orange heavy rain warning is in place from 10am Sunday to 1am Monday.

From 2018 through last year, hate crimes against Jews rose from 253 to 477, an increase of 89%.

ATLANTA (AP) — Two workers were killed and another seriously injured Tuesday in a tire explosion at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport.

We are trying to expedite work: DC Srinagar

A man died after an apparent BASE jumping crash along the South Rim of the Grand Canyon on Thursday, a day after another man died in a fall along the edge of the canyon.

The Ukrainian city of Mariupol came under heavy bombardment during the opening months of Russia's invasion in 2022, a p…

A ship caught fire in the Yangon River near Bagayar pier in Kyimyindine Township, Yangon Region, reported the Myanmar Fire Services Department (MFSD). The ship caught fire in the Yangon River near the Bargara pier, Kyimyindine Township, Yangon Region at around 2:23 am on March 1. Residents of some townships in Yangon heard the explosion caused by the ship's fire, according to some comments of Yangon residents posted on the MFSD’s social network page.

As the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 draw to a close, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day meditation retreat at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanyakumari sparks curiosity and revisits his long-standing connection with Swami Vivekananda and the iconic site.

The city of Lancaster in California spent $11.5 million transforming its ugly five-lane boulevard into 'America's best main street' boosting the local economy by $280 million.

Urges administration to provide immediate relief to families

A visitor to Death Valley National Park died Sunday from heat exposure and another person was hospitalized as the temperature reached 128 degrees.

Authorities say an 80-year-old man has died after falling from a boat on the Colorado River inside Grand Canyon National Park. It's believed to be the fifth reported fatality at the canyon in less than a month and the 13th this year.

After the wettest 12-months in more than 150 years, yet more rain is set to hit southern England

Seven fire tenders have been rushed to the spot to control the blaze.

Delhi coaching centre flooding: A 20-year-old student recalls the harrowing incident which followed after she left the Rau’s IAS Study Circle basement centre to eat her food, and just a couple of minutes later, it was flooded with water.

A long-running heat wave that has already shattered previous records across the U.S. will persist, baking parts of the West with dangerous temperatures that will soar into the 100s and holding the East in its hot and humid grip throughout the week, forecasters said Sunday. An excessive heat warning —…

A team of archaeologists have said they are gradually "piecing together" the building's "story"

Mayuge, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Government, through the National Oil Palm Project (NOPP), officially commenced planting oil palm crops in the Busoga sub-region on Friday. The project, introduced in the area thirteen years ago, finally began with the planting of a four-acre garden at Buwolya Village in Mpungwe Sub County, Mayuge District, on land …

"I’ve even offered to pay for his first six months of housing, and he said, ‘That’s great. I’m still going to keep my cabin in the woods."

First responders “had to run for their lives as the mine kept falling inside,”

An excessive heat warning from the National Weather Service covered about 10% of the US population -- or 36 million people, said NWS meteorologist Bryan Jackson.

North Korea released images of its uranium enrichment facility on Friday, showing leader Kim Jong Un touring the site. Kim called for an increase in centrifuges to boost the country's nuclear arsenal…

NASA has completed the analysis of a chunk of metal that crashed into the roof of a house in Naples, Florida, a few weeks ago. The agency says it came from a pallet of trash released from the International Space Station three years ago.

Telugu expatriates in Tel Aviv face danger as Iran launches missile attack, Indian Embassy issues warnings.

MONTREAL — Marc-Andre Bourgeois-Gaudet was in his boat off the shores of Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Que., last Friday when he saw several funnel clouds descending from the sky like tornadoes.

A postcard from 1903 was finally delivered to its intended destination 121 years after stamped. Staff at a mortgage loan company were shocked to receive the rare item.

An explosion at a terraced home in Tranmere, Merseyside, has led to two people being taken to hospital and neighbours in the surrounding area evacuated as firefighters battle a resultant blaze

Large parts of Pretoria West were hit by a power outage after the switch gear room of an old decommissioned power station in Proclamation Hill caught alight on Friday night.

Flooding and slips are possible on Sunday, with the heaviest downpours expected in the ranges.

Charred trees punctuated the Eldorado National Forest like blackened skeletons of their former selves, victims of the Mosquito Fire. Two years earlier, in 2022, the Mosquito Fire started in Tahoe National ...

Nine of the 10 warmest Septembers have occurred in the last 15 years, according to a post on X by the Las Vegas office of the weather service.

The first of the Met Office's storm warnings come into force on Wednesday

Vigil stepped up at 12 border check posts in Tamil Nadu following bird flu outbreak in Kerala.

Police investigate missing files thrown as waste near Guntur West Tahsildar Office, sparking viral video and official inquiry.

A fire broke out on the 28th floor of a high-rise building in Dasmariñas, Binondo, Manila Monday afternoon.

The rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and got all 21 Starlink internet satellites to orbit

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A series of slow-moving winter storms that wreaked havoc in Southern California and left 3 feet (91 centimeters) of snow in northern Arizona made its way Saturday into New Mexico, where a stretch of U.S. highway south of the Colorado line was closed and as much as a foot (30 cm) of snow was possible in some mountain areas.

A volcano in Iceland erupted Saturday evening for the fourth time in three months, sending orange jets of lava into the night sky.

The results of Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced on Monday saw the performance in Bengaluru region in Class 12 decrease by 1.69 percentage points, while the performance in Class 10 saw a slight increase by 0.08 percentage points compared to last year.

An estimated 45 cattle were killed Monday when a trailer overturned in North Arlington, police say.