ACAPULCO, Mexico — A shark killed a surfer Friday off Mexico's Pacific coast — six miles from a beach where an American man was killed in a similar attack last month, au...
YINGXIU, China — Rescuers rushed to reach 24 coal miners trapped underground by China's' earthquake almost two weeks ago, officials said Saturday, as the government shar...
PENGZHOU, China — Earthquake survivors living downstream from lakes formed by blocked rivers were being evacuated today for fears that aftershocks could unleash flooding...
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on a mission to open Myanmar to international disaster assistance, said the ruling junta agreed today to allow "...
China updates dead, missing
BEICHUAN, China — China said the toll of dead and missing from last week's powerful earthquake jumped to more than 80,000, while the governmen...
YANGON, Myanmar — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew into Myanmar's disaster zone today as he pressed the country's leaders to open the doors to critical internatio...
Oil prices rose above $130 a barrel today for the first time, as supply concerns mounted and the dollar weakened.
Light, sweet crude for July delivery hit a record $130....
Woman trapped 9 days in debris
CHENGDU, China — A woman trapped in a tunnel at a power plant was rescued nine days after an earthquake struck central China — the only per...
Ma Yuanjiang, a hydropower plant director in China, receives treatment after being rescued from the collapsed plant in Yingxiu near the quake epicenter today. The surviv...
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar began three days of mourning for some 78,000 cyclone victims today, after its ruling junta appeared to relent to foreign pressure to allow more...
