A round of indictments against a major Mexican fentanyl trafficking ring last week presents an opportunity to hobble the multinational drug enterprise killing people on…
Watch: Protesters delay Grand National startThe British Horseracing Authority has "robustly condemned" the "reckless" protests at Saturday's Grand National.A total of 118 people were arrested…
Parts of Fort Lauderdale in southeast Florida are still facing dangers from high waters on Saturday after monumental flooding inundated the coastal area with hurricane-esque rainfall a matter of…
The fire that killed 18,000 dairy cows in a West Texas farm has been extinguished and the staggering death count revealed. Now, comes the messy, unprecedented task of disposing…
Volker Turk urges expansion of rescue operations after a ‘steep increase’ in number of people making risky attempts to cross the central Mediterranean to Europe.…
Four years after the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play was recalled, and despite links to about 100 infant deaths, hundreds of the sleepers are offered for sale…
The Missouri Highway Patrol Wednesday confirmed tornado deaths in Bollinger County near Marble Hill as a new wave of severe weather moved across the Midwest…
A tornado that slammed into southeastern Missouri early Wednesday caused at least five fatalities and an unknown number of injuries, and prompted a feverish search for survivors in the…
The death toll rose to 21 people Saturday after confirmed or suspected tornadoes in at least eight states tore through the South and Midwest, leaving residents to pick…
BREAKINGBREAKING, The incident occurred during military training in the US state of Kentucky. Two US Army Black Hawk helicopters crashed during a training mission over…
A toxic parasite "very different from anything" experts have seen before has killed four California sea otters and they're concerned it could spread to other marine life and…
Nigeria’s presidential and national assembly elections have come and gone – but not without consequences. According to data gathered by the Council on Foreign Relations,…
States across the Southeast and into the Midwest were facing strong winds that led to dangerous conditions on Friday, with gusts blowing down trees and causing…
Seven children and 25 women were among the foreigners who died in detention last year, minister says. Human rights groups have urged Malaysia to investigate…
Heavy rain has caused flooding and landslides that have killed 36 people in Brazil's north São Paulo state, with the fatalities expected to rise.Key points:35 people died in…
A former Santos employee has accused the Australian oil and gas company of covering up the extent of an oil spill believed to have killed dolphins off…
Cameroonian authorities said the border movement restrictions were imposed in view of ‘the high risk of importation’ of the unidentified illness. Cameroon has restricted movement…
At least 23 people killed as dozens of wildfires torch forests in Chile. Chile has extended an emergency declaration to yet another region as firefighters…
There is no evidence the wind work and whale deaths are linked. But Clean Ocean Action, a 40-year-old nonprofit, believes the two things happening at…
The peacekeeping mission has recorded 281 deaths of its soldiers since it became operational in Mali in 2013. A court in Mali has sentenced a…