Disaster

  A Turkish court sentenced mining company executives to up to 22 years in jail on Wednesday over their role…

  Rescue workers carried out house-to-house searches Tuesday in the increasingly unlikely hope of finding survivors after days of deadly…

The world is witnessing a boom in the collecting and storing of “Big Data.”  Yasser Shaaban, an Egyptian researcher with a…

From the Lower Ninth Ward to the Superdome, New Orleans observed the 10th anniversary of devastating Hurricane Katrina, paying tribute…

At least 19.3 million people were forced to flee their homes in 2014, with at least one person every second…

It's now a given that most every natural disaster, even in a location as remote as Nepal, will be captured…

Women are far more exposed to disasters than men given their frontline roles in the home and in healthcare, the…

The vice principal of a South Korean high school who accompanied hundreds of his pupils on what turned out to…

At least 51 people perished in flooding and landslides in a night of torrential rain in the Burundi capital that…

A five-story building of 15 apartments collapsed yesterday in Bulaq. The 13 families living in the building were all reportedly…