Landslide damages famed valley in Russia
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A severe landslide has nearly obliterated one of Russia's most noted natural wonders, the Valley of Geysers, officials and environmental activists said Monday.
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At least 21 people die in landslides, as torrential rain continues in western China, state media says.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Mar. 4--TOWN OF MEDARY, Wis. -- Two people were seriously injured Saturday afternoon in a sledding accident after sliding 200 feet into a steep rock quarry.
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The torrents of water that raged down onto this city, killing hundreds of people, are testimony to a man-made ecological disaster fed by poverty that has transformed once-verdant hills into a moonscape of bedrock ravaged by ravines.
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Boscastle - Emergency services searched the wreckage of a picturesque English fishing village on Tuesday for 15 people unaccounted for after flash floods created a wall of water which tore through the valley.
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BESLAN, Russia -- The sound of weeping floated out of open windows and doors across this town Sunday as relatives began to bury more than 330 victims of a three-day hostage ordeal that ended in chaos and bloodshed.
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Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- As many as 20 vehicles are trapped following a landslide caused by torrential rains in Scotland, Sky News said on its Web site, citing police spokesmen Gareth Thornton.
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Hostage-takings and kidnappings have been a feared part of life in Chechnya and other parts of Russia's disorderly North Caucasus region for centuries.
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A helicopter crashed Wednesday in Siberia, killing three of the four people aboard, an emergency official said. The MD-600 helicopter crashed about 12 miles from the city Novokuznetsk in the Kemerovo region about 1,850 miles east of Moscow, Emergency Situations Ministry spokeswoman Yulia Stadnikova said.
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A landslide destroyed 25 village houses  in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou on Friday and  65 villagers were missing, Xinhua news agency said.
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Rain has triggered fears of fresh landslides in the Niigata region hit by Japan's deadliest earthquake in nine years as exhaustion was wearing down tens of thousands in shelters.
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Winter is back with a vengeance in Eastern Europe, with heavy snow causing chaos.
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Up to 47 people were buried and feared dead after a landslide blamed on mining engulfed much of a remote Chinese village as people slept on Friday.
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A landslide struck a village in southwest China early Friday, destroying 25 homes and leaving 65 people missing, Xinhua news agency reported.
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XINTAI, China, Aug. 23 -- The first sign of trouble was a stream of water that burst from a wall deep in the mine, Wang Kuitao recalled. Within minutes, he said, the water was everywhere, rushing down the shaft carrying tons of mud. Another disaster was on the way, Wang quickly concluded, one more...
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A landslide buried buses and cars on a highway in the central state of Puebla and killed at least four travelers Thursday, a day after a separate avalanche left 10 villagers dead in northern Mexico.
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KONDOPOGA, Russia  - Dozens of wrecked market   stalls rot in the rain and a restaurant stands burned and   looted, its windows boarded up.