On August 28, 1988, thousands gathered at Ramstein Air Base expecting to watch the Italian Air Force's Frecce Tricolori perform their spectacular heart-shaped finale. Instead, a split-second timing ...

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The deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history, the Great Galveston Hurricane claimed as many as 12,000 lives.

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Explore the 25 biggest man-made environmental disasters of history, from Chernobyl to Fukushima. Discover how human actions ...

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Scores of people have been killed after a powerful quake sparked a tsunami with waves as high as 1.5 metres (five feet) that smashed into the Indonesian city of Palu. Harrowing video showed waves of ...

On May 31, 1889, the quiet Pennsylvania steel town of Johnstown became the site of one of the deadliest disasters in American history. After days of relentless rain across western Pennsylvania, a ...

A gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China has killed at least 82 people, according to state media, the country’s deadliest mining disaster in more than a decade. Rescue efforts are still ...