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Two trains running on the same track collided head-on in southern Poland in a shower of sparks, killing 16 people and injuring 58 in the country's worst train disaster in more than 20 years....

Shares of cruise operator Carnival Corp plunged 15 percent on Tuesday after a ship operated by its unit struck a submerged rock and keeled over off the coast of Italy late on Friday.

A last-minute deal reached by Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate diminished the chances of a government shutdown by week's end.

An overloaded ferry capsized off east Africa as it sailed from Zanzibar to Pemba island. It was Tanzania’s worst maritime disaster in at least 15 years.

After days of growing public fury over last month’s crash and the government’s reaction, Chinese authorities have enacted a virtual news blackout on the disaster.

BP on Wednesday sued the maker of the device that failed to stop last year's calamitous Gulf oil spill and the owner of the rig that exploded, alleging that negligence by both helped cause the disaster.

Hundreds have succumbed to the disease in a nation all too familiar with death and ill-equipped to deal with disaster. A mother cradled her limp 2-year-old boy, gently bouncing him on her knee as though she would lose him if she stopped.

Roland Emmerich’s thriller about a global cataclysm opened at No. 1 with a higher-than-expected $65 million in ticket sales.

Tropical Storm Mirinae unleashed severe flooding in parts of central Vietnam, killing 23 people, leaving two missing and stranding families on rooftops, disaster officials said Tuesday.

After "Antichrist," his art house mash up of the slasher horror genre, Danish director Lars von Trier is moving into Roland Emmerich territory with his next project -- a psychological disaster film titled "Planet Melancholia."