The head of the US office for disaster preparedness urged residents of Texas Friday to get out of the path of Hurricane Harvey, warning of an impending "disaster" from the powerful storm. "Texas is about to have a very significant disaster," said Brock Long, director of...
The death toll from the flood and mudslide disaster that struck Sierra Leone's capital in mid-August now exceeds 500 and 810 people are listed as missing, the government said Thursday. "The death toll has risen slightly above 500," Vice President Victor Bockarie Foh said at a...
Jolee Callan was shot and killed while on a hike in an Alabama state park. A series of photos posted to a murderer's Instagram account appear to reveal the events of her final hours before she was killed by her ex-boyfriend and pushed off a cliff. Jolee...
[caption id="attachment_19001" align="alignright" width="300"] A woman cries as she and a man are escorted by Spanish policemen outside a cordoned-off area after a van ploughed into the crowd, in Barcelona, Spain, yesterday.[/caption] At least 13 people were killed yesterday when a driver deliberately slammed a van...
US President Donald Trump, under pressure to explicitly condemn a weekend rally by white supremacists that ended in bloodshed, yesterday denounced racism and slammed the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis as “repugnant”. Trump had taken heat from Democrats and Republicans alike for his response to Saturday's...