Chile rescues 54 people after volcano eruption
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Rescue workers evacuated 54 tourists and staff from a Chilean wilderness park on Wednesday after one of the country's largest volcanoes erupted, spewing ash and molten lava.
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Helicopters delivered food to famished survivors and picked up casualties as the weather cleared on Saturday in villages ravaged by back-to-back storms that have left 640 people dead and nearly 400 missing in the northern Philippines.
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Rescuers were desperately searching for survivors after floods and landslides unleashed by a tropical storm in the Philippines killed more than 300 people and left at least 150 others missing, many buried alive under tonnes of debris.
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Rescue teams struggled to locate  and remove the charred bodies of 54 Indian miners killed after  the roof of a state-owned coal mine collapsed following an  explosion, authorities said on Friday.
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A government flight that linked Peru's isolated jungle communities crashed in a storm, officials said, and at least five survivors among the 20 people on board were rescued Friday after helicopters overhead spotted a fire they had set
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ELOXOCHITLAN, Mexico  - Mexican rescuers dug out the bodies of 31 people on Thursday and searched for dozens more believed killed when part of a rain-soaked mountain collapsed on a bus carrying up to 60 passengers.
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Relief workers battled rain and choppy seas today to deliver food and medicine to the Philippinesâ north-east following devastating back-to-back storms that killed at least 568 people and left hundreds more missing.
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A volcano in southern Chile erupted on Tuesday, spewing ash and smoke but posing no immediate risk to populated areas, officials said.
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RESCUERS in the Philippines yesterday pulled at least four survivors from a building that collapsed in mudslides 10 days ago. The miraculous tale of survival came as officials
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Fifty-seven people were airlifted to safety last night after a series of landslides caused by torrential rainstorms trapped them in their vehicles in the Lochearnhead area, north of Stirling in central Scotland.
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Fires that have killed about 50 people and devastated much of Greece near the ancient ruins of Olympia.
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Rescue workers airlifted residents out of isolated villages and sifted through wreckage for earthquake survivors Sunday, a day after a series of strong temblors hit northwest Japan, killing at least 21 people and injuring more than 1,500.
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Rescue teams tried to reach 86 trapped  miners on Friday after one of China's worst mine disasters in  years killed at least 62 people, prompting calls for action by  the president, state media said.
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A fire at a Western Australian gold mine leaves 54 miners trapped underground, according to local media.
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Rescuers employed dogs, helicopters and their bare hands Thursday in the ongoing search for victims of devastating flash floods in northern Thailand that killed 50 people and left at least as many missing.
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More than 40 miners who were trapped underground Wednesday by a fire in an Australian gold mine have been rescued, local media reported.
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Rescue teams converged on beaches and remote islands in search of the missing today as authorities reported that more than 430 people, including a number of foreign tourists, were killed and 4,100 injured when earthquake-spawned tidal waves devastated