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NASA has ended Crew-11's space stay a few weeks early due to a "lingering risk" to an astronaut's health. The crew is now on its way back to Earth....
Officials called on the local population to stay away from the area, as emergency services rushed to the scene....
A high-speed train traveling from Malaga to Madrid derailed, crashing into an oncoming train in southern Andalusia. At least 39 people have died with dozens rushed to hospital with injuries. DW has th...
Spanish police said Monday that at least 39 people are confirmed dead in a high-speed train collision the previous night in the south of the country. The crash occurred Sunday at 7:45pm when the tail ...
The high-speed train was travelling from Bangkok to northeast Thailand....
Passengers have been advised to check for the latest updates before they travel....
A massive fire erupted at a Virginia plant on Thursday night, spreading to wooded areas nearby....
The train was travelling from Bangkok to northeast Thailand. At least 29 people have died in the accident....
Wildfires last January destroyed communities around Los Angeles. Homeowners say recovery has been slowed by fights with insurers to get their claims paid. (Image credit: Josh Edelson)...
Firefighters in Karachi began searching on Monday for more than 60 missing people after a massive fire destroyed a shopping centre in Pakistan’s most populous city, while the death toll from the disa...
About 100 vehicles, including around 40 semi trucks, were involved in a massive chain-reaction crash just west of Grand Rapids, Michigan, according to police....
A high-speed train travelling from Malaga to Madrid derailed, crashing into an oncoming train near the town of Adamuz in the southern Andalusia region....
Russia has been pounding Ukraine's energy system since the start of the war, in what Kyiv says is an attempt to sap morale and weaken Ukrainians' resistance....
Officials said fresh snowfall in the Austrian Alps is poorly bonded to older layers on the peaks, increasing the risk of repeated avalanches, and urged extreme caution....
The Airbus A321, which was carrying 148 passengers and seven crew, was directed to a designated area for inspection after it landed at around 11:00 am....
In just nine days, wildfires have destroyed over 15,000 hectares of Argentina’s Patagonia, with hundreds of firefighters and volunteers continuing to battle the flames, reports Charlotte Lam....
Life is slowly returning to normal in Russia’s far east after what residents are calling a “snow apocalypse.” A powerful cyclone dumped record snowfall on the Kamchatka region, burying homes, blocking...
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian homes are either entirely without heating, or with severely reduced heating. This, as temperatures rarely rise above minus 10. It’s the result of Russia’s campaign o...
An overnight Russian bombardment on Kyiv left thousands of residential buildings and parliament without heating and water in -14C temperatures on Tuesday, just as the Ukrainian capital was scrambling ...