Palestinian officials estimate 10,000 bodies are under the debris covering Gaza after the devastating 15-month war.

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...

The mine has been the scene of a tense standoff between police and miners since authorities launched an operation to force ...

Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Authorities moved more than 47,000 people to shelters in earthquake-hit Tibet, Chinese officials said on ...

Rescuers raced against time to search for survivors under the rubble of collapsed buildings in frigid weather amid hundreds of aftershocks, a day after a massive quake hit a Tibetan county while ...

Jan. 7 (UPI) --Marine rescuers on British Columbia's Vancouver Island are attempting to locate a wayward sea lion that has repeatedly wandered onto a busy highway far from its normal habitat.

Guwahati, India (Reuters) - The body of a miner was recovered from a flooded coal mine in a remote district of India’s northeastern state of Assam on Wednesday, two days into the search for nine ...

Jan. 6 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in Singapore responded to an apartment building where a civet climbed up to the 14th floor and became stranded on a balcony. The Animal Concerns Research and ...

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines – Rescuers have found the body of the remaining crew member of a cargo vessel that sank off the coast of Lavezares town, Northern Samar on Dec. 30. The decomposing ...