Disasters news headlines

A five-year-old girl was among those rescued from the water after the maritime disaster.

It's feared the casualty list could grow, with dozens reported wounded.

The Aussie researchers say the new space-based tech can spot growing blazes by smoke.

American real estate mogul Larry Connor says he wants to show the site of the famous liner can be explored safetly, nearly one year after the Titan disaster.

Local officials had initially put the death toll on Friday at 100 or more. Only five bodies and a leg of a sixth victim had been recovered by Sunday.

A child is among those killed and a further 63 people are injured.

Damage and debris on the Dali was still visible as it was refloated two months after the deadly collision.

Brazilians battling their country's ongoing flood disaster finally had some good news.

Jerry Boylan was the first to abandon ship after the blaze erupted on board in 2019, the court heard.

The huge storms left buildings crumpled, cars flipped over and thousands of people without power.

Schools have been closed amid plunging air quality in the Central American nation.

It's believed the makeshift ferry was carrying more than 100 people fleeing a cholera outbreak.

Divers reported visibility beneath the Patapsco River is less than a metre as a huge recovery operation continues.

Vision has shown drivers frantically trying to avoid falling boulders in the opening moments of the quake.

When a ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing its catastrophic collapse, that day led to a shocking brush with death.

The two men were part of a construction crew that plunged into the water when the bridge collapsed.

Investigators have begun collecting evidence from the vessel that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

"The whole bridge just fell down," a frantic officer said. "Start, start whoever, everybody ... the whole bridge just collapsed."

Footage shows how the giant container lost power just seconds before the collapse of the structure.

The ship was completely overturned by the time rescuers arrived at the scene

Multiple investigations are underway as the Australian Workers Union calls for charges to be laid.

The flight disappeared a decade ago in March 2014, with 239 people on board.

Families of the victims are pleading for the central government to step up rescue efforts.

Police confirmed the identity of a new victim killed in the blaze that tore through a historic town on August 8.

There are fears the workers are buried under the ground as rescue workers scramble to assess the situation.

"It's not a question of 'if' but 'when' you'll be caught," Government Services Minister Bill Shorten has warned.

The department said the latest case was not been linked to international travel, suggesting local transmission may have occured.

On January 18, 1977, a crowded commuter train travelling to Sydney derailed, killing 83 people and triggering a massive rescue effort to free trapped passengers.

People paid to spot risks see a perilous future, marked by an explosion of disinformation turbocharged by artificial intelligence and the devastating effects of climate change.

Bitter cold and heavy rain are expected to hamper efforts to find any survivors of the earthquake tragedy.

Officials have warned that more quakes could lie ahead.

Homes and businesses were damaged and enormous potholes erupted in major regional roads after thunderstorms produced rainfall totals of more than 100mm.

Flood-hit communities in Far North Queensland will be able to access additional financial support from tomorrow.

If it's hard to imagine what it feels like to give $1 million to charity and get criticised for it, just ask billionaire Jeff Bezos.

It's the latest deadly extreme weather event to hit the country, which over the last few months has been grappling with severe floods as well as extreme heat waves.

After watching their neighbours swept away from rooftops, flood-ravaged Libyans face unimaginable new horrors.

Emergency workers have uncovered hundreds of bodies in the wreckage of Libya's eastern city of Derna.

In some villages, more than half the population has been killed.

Rescuers are digging through rubble in remote mountainous areas of Morocco in a desperate bid to find survivors after more than 2000 people were killed in the deadliest earthquake to strike the country in decades.

Moroccans are working to rescue survivors and praying for victims of the nation's strongest earthquake in more than a century.

The Australian Fire Authorities Council has released its seasonal bushfire outlook for spring.

Despite months of protests, Japanese authorities insist the treated radioactive material will be let out into the ocean,

As Southern California braced for a highly unusual summer storm on Sunday afternoon, residents were struck by a much more familiar phenomenon: a magnitude 5.1 earthquake.

Dozens missing at sea are presumed dead after the crew of a fishing boat rescued almost 40 people and recovered several bodies.

A class action lawsuit has already been launched over the disaster.

Already one of the deadliest blazes in recorded US history, the extent of destruction on the Hawaiian island is still to be fully revealed.

Tens of thousands of people were evacuated as mudslides and flooding continues to wreak havoc.

Australians are at an increased risk of having to abandon their home insurance after premiums soared by 28 percent in the last year - the highest rise in more than two decades.

The inferno swept through the centuries-old town of Lahaina on Maui's west coast, reducing hundreds of homes to ash.

Leshia Wright heard the crackle of the fast-moving inferno closing in on her home in Lahaina and decided it was time to evacuate.