The oil drilling platform blew up 15 years ago, triggering the worst single environmental disaster in the nation’s history.

In the icy chaos of the Baltic Sea during the final months of World War II, the cruise liner MV Wilhelm Gustloff attempted a ...

While disaster can strike at any time, an unusual amount of tragic events seem to take place on a few inauspicious days in mid-April.

While disaster can strike at any time, an unusual number of tragic events seem to take place on a few inauspicious days in April. Eerie coincidence?

As one of only two survivors of the PK8303 air disaster, Zafar Masud delivers a powerful meditation on personal resilience ...

French cargo ship in Galveston Bay exploded, killing nearly 600. It spawned first big class-action lawsuit against U.S. government ...

He described the defeat as the “worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history”. For the defeated Commonwealth soldiers who had battled to save it, 80,000 of them immediately ...

The Jet Set club said Tuesday saying it was working with authorities probing the disaster -- one of the worst in Dominican history. In 2005, more than 130 prisoners in the east of the country died ...

On March 21, 1910, a train derailment near the Marshall/Tama county line (four miles northeast of Green Mountain) resulted in ...

A suspected bomb exploded Friday outside the Athens offices of Hellenic Train, Greece’s main railway company. There were no ...

In Collision on Tenerife, Jon Ziomek has written a riveting account of the errors that unfolded before the worst civil aviation disaster in history, when on March 27, 1977, two Boeing 747 ...