search and rescue efforts

ISTANBUL (AP) — The Turkish coast guard has rescued 57 people who were stranded on a tiny island in the Aegean Sea after attempting to reach Greece. T...

BEIJING (AP) — The owner of a Chinese gypsum mine drowned Sunday after jumping into a well in an apparent suicide during rescue efforts for 17 workers...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Caleb Shumway wanted to spend his winter break from college searching southeast Utah for a man who police believe shot a park ra...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An underwater search for a computer hard drive and anything else linked to the husband-and-wife shooters who killed 14 in the Calif...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Specialized divers with the FBI searched a San Bernardino lake for a second day Friday, looking for a computer hard drive and any o...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities rescued several hundred migrants from the Aegean Sea off eastern Greek islands in relatively calm waters on Saturday...

MARIANA, Brazil (AP) — Rescuers on Friday spirited survivors out of a mountainous area of southeastern Brazil that was flooded with a sea of viscous, ...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron declared Thursday it was "more likely than not" that a bomb brought down a Metrojet flight packed w...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Turkey has granted access to 30 suspected grave sites in military-controlled areas in northern Cyprus, a move that will signifi...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest as tens of thousands of people flood into Europe in search of a new life. All times local. 6:30 p.m. Slovenia's presi...

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of a four-story factory building in eastern Pakistan rose to 20 on Thursday, as rescuers with...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest as hundreds of thousands of people seeking safety flood into Europe in search of a new life. All times local. 12:20 a...

MIAMI (AP) — Sonar indicates that the wreckage believed to be the cargo ship El Faro landed upright on the ocean floor, which may aid efforts to recov...

LESBOS, Greece (AP) — Dead migrants float belly-up, stripped of their clothing by churning seas. On shore, wailing women search for loved ones among t...

MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) — As the death toll in the massive earthquake that struck the remote Hindu Kush mountains soared above 300, officials on both s...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A private Japanese organization that has found the remains of World War II soldiers on Saipan is planning another excavation on th...

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders faced stern warnings at a summit meeting Thursday over failed pledges to tackle the refugee emergency, as well ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Investigators trying to determine why a 790-foot cargo ship stalled and sank in the howling winds of Hurricane Joaquin will ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Coast Guard said Monday that a U.S. cargo ship carrying 33 people that has been missing since it encountered high winds ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A rain-sodden hillside about 300 feet (100 meters) high collapsed onto a neighborhood on the outskirts of Guatemala's capital wi...