A Russian passenger plane that caught fire as it fell from the sky likely suffered engine failure before it crashed, killing all 88 people on board, investigators said. The right engine of the Boeing 737-500 caught fire as it prepared...

Losing its devastating punch as a major hurricane, Ike nevertheless drubbed the Midwest with powerful winds and floodwaters that are being blamed for at least 15 deaths. The violent weather in the Midwest brought Ike's total death toll to at...

Federal officials investigating a commuter rail collision that killed 25 people said they want to review cellphone records to determine if an engineer blamed for running a stop signal before the crash may have been text messaging at the time....

More than two days after Hurricane Ike slammed the Gulf Coast, rescuers flew for the first time Monday into areas cut off by the storm and found a scene of devastation, with whole subdivisions obliterated, and began evacuating survivors. A...

On a sweltering August morning, a small group of Iranians crowded outside the green metal door of a cemetery. They wanted to go in to look at the remains of one particular tomb: the tomb of biblical Eve. Like hundreds...

Two strong earthquakes rattled Asia on Thursday, triggering alerts for a tsunami that harmlessly lapped Japan's northern coast and another in Indonesia that didn't materialize but briefly sent residents fleeing to high ground. The more powerful of the quakes, with...