French rescue officials said Tuesday they found the bodies of two Italian and two South Korean climbers close to the peak of Mont Blanc on the French side after they went missing over the weekend in bad weather. The Chamonix-Mont Blanc search and rescue team found the two pairs of climbers at an altitude of...
With Hurricane Francine threatening the Gulf Coast, it is a reminder to be prepared in case of a natural disaster. Francine is forecast to make landfall along the Louisiana coast early Thursday, leaving residents little time to prepare. But there are some recommended provisions that can help alleviate a family’s concerns in the event of...
Officials are investigating why a concrete bridge partially collapsed in eastern Germany early Wednesday, disrupting a major traffic artery in Dresden and interrupting the heating system for a city nicknamed “Florence on the Elbe” for its Baroque architecture. No one was injured when a section of the Carola Bridge fell into the Elbe River, the...
At least 10 migrants died on Tuesday after the vessel they were in capsized on its way across the Channel from France to Britain, La Voix du Nord newspaper reported, with a major operation underway to rescue over 50 people. A French coast guard spokesperson earlier said 10 people were in a critical condition. The...
At least seven people have died and dozens more were injured Saturday after a bus overturned along Interstate 20 in Mississippi, officials say. The Mississippi Highway Patrol says the one-vehicle crash involving a 2018 Volvo commercial passenger bus happened around 12:40 a.m. near Bovina in Warren County. “Six passengers were pronounced deceased on the scene,...
The CEO of a manufacturing company responsible for building the yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily this week blamed a series of “indescribable, unreasonable errors” by the crew for the vessel’s demise. Reuters reported that Giovanni Costantino, CEO of The Italian Sea Group, which includes Perini Navi, the Italian high-end yacht maker that...
Two would-be passengers say they cheated death on Friday after a mix-up resulted in them missing their flight aboard the doomed VoePass airliner which crashed in Brazil and killing all 62 people on board. The two passengers were scheduled to fly on the ATR 72 twin-engine turboprop but told a Brazilian news outlet how they...
Part of a hotel in a winemaking town on the Mosel River in western Germany collapsed, leaving two people dead and two others still trapped in the wreckage hours later, authorities said Wednesday. Fourteen people were in the hotel in Kroev when one story of the building collapsed at about 11 p.m. Tuesday. Police said...
Hundreds of rescue workers searched through mud and debris Wednesday from multiple landslides that have killed at least 151 people in southern India, police said. The landslides occurred after torrential rains triggered torrents of mud and water that swept through tea estates and villages. Another 186 people were injured by the landslides that hit hilly...
Landslides swept through tea estates in southern India’s Kerala state on Tuesday, killing over 50 people, authorities said, as hillsides collapsed after heavy rain and sent rivers of mud, water and boulders on homes of workers and villagers. The hillsides gave way after midnight following torrential rainfall on Monday in the Wayanad district of Kerala,...
