The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, where at least 109 men have died, a group representing the miners ...

JAKARTA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Authorities have begun evacuating 3,000 residents near the Mount Ibu volcano on Indonesia's eastern island of Halmahera, the disaster agency said on Thursday, after an ...

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LOWER SOUTHAMPTON, Pa. (WPVI) -- A 79-year-old woman, trapped down a steep ravine, triggers an intricate rescue in the middle of the night. With no light, and rough terrain, Lower Southampton ...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - Rescuers used a unique method to find a hiker stranded at Red Rock Canyon after an adventure went wrong. Now, that hiker is training to join the team that helped him when ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa - South African rescuers were making final efforts on Thursday to ascertain whether anyone was left in an illegal gold mine deep underground where at least 78 people died ...

Ternate, Indonesia: Hundreds of islanders have been evacuated, with thousands more awaiting their turn following increased volcanic eruptions in eastern Indonesia, officials said on Thursday.

Rescuers on Tuesday pulled several survivors and dead bodies from one of South Africa’s deepest mines, where hundreds of illegal miners have been trapped underground for months in an abandoned ...

LOS ANGELES – Krissy Simmel stopped her Jeep at an intersection inside the fire-scorched Pacific Palisades neighborhood and lowered the window when she saw a military police officer. “Were ...

Rescuers continued their operations to bring out survivors among hundreds of miners who were working illegally in an abandoned shaft and have been trapped for months. More than 100 are believed to ...

Stilfontein (South Africa) (AFP) – Rescuers retrieving illegal miners from a disused South African gold shaft said on Thursday a final sweep appeared to show nobody was left underground ...