More wildfires ignited near Los Angeles on Thursday, destroying homes and forcing evacuations, as the region faced a second day of gusting desert winds that have fanned flames and displaced thousands of people.
The fast-moving Hillside Fire grew to (...)
A herd of 500 goats helped save California's Ronald Reagan library from a wildfire on Wednesday, after the voracious animals earlier this year ate flammable scrub surrounding the hilltop complex.
The hired goats munched through brush to create a (...)
As icy, lethal flood waters fed by rains and melting snow recede in Nebraska and Iowa, leaving destroyed homes, drowned cattle and swamped farmland, Midwest states downstream were set on Thursday for a relentless surge of the Missouri (...)
Nebraskans struggled on Wednesday to clear the wreckage left by deadly floods that caused an estimated $1 billion in damage, while emergency officials farther south kept a wary eye on the Missouri and Mississippi rivers as the disaster threatened to (...)
Nestled at the foot of five snow-capped mountain peaks in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan province, the villages of the Bagrot valley face fearsome flooding risks.
As glaciers retreat, they leave behind lakes supported by ice dams or (...)
It is time to dispel the myth of the decline of Western powers in the global geopolitical order, UPI quoted British Foreign Secretary William Hague as saying in California.
Hague delivered a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in (...)
Israeli soldiers Tuesday seized tractors used by Bedouin residents of the northern areas of the Jordan Valley, according to head of al-Maleh village council Aref Daraghmeh.
He said soldiers seized at least two tractors less than a day after they (...)
Israeli soldiers Monday handed Palestinians in the northern areas of the Jordan Valley demolition notices of seven structures, according to head of Al-Maleh village Council Aref Daraghmeh.
He told Palestine News and Information Agency "WAFA" that (...)
A vehicle plowed into a crowd at a popular off-road race in the Southern California desert on Saturday night, killing eight people and leaving 12 wounded, authorities said.
The accident happened shortly before 8 p.m. at the California 200 race, (...)
French forces say insurgents have fired at least two rockets on a crowded marketplace in the town of Tagab, northeast of Kabul, where the head of the French forces in Afghanistan was holding a meeting with tribal elders.
Capt. Michel, who can (...)
Gibson, the California dog dubbed the tallest in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records, has died after a battle with bone cancer.
The 7-year-old harlequin Great Dane from Grass Valley measured 7 feet, 1 inch (2.16 meters) when standing on (...)
The City of Tents in Mina Valley reverberated with chants of Labbaik, Allahumma Labbaik.... (Here I am O Allah! Here I am...) as millions of pilgrims converged here ahead of Attendance on the Plain of Arafat, the pinnacle of Haj, on Sunday.
The (...)
NATO-led troops killed 75 suspected insurgents on the first day of an offensive against Taliban in a valley in southern
Afghanistan, a British military commander said Tuesday.
The insurgents died Monday, when British, Danish and Afghan troops (...)
15 (Balakot-Mahindri-Naran section) including structures, Rehabilitation & Improvement of about 100 km of National Highway N-35 (Mansehra-Batgram-Thakot section), Rehabilitation & Improvement of about 35 km of National Highway N-75 (...)