The devastating tornadoes that have ripped through the heart of Oklahoma, have so far claimed the lives of 24 people, including seven children and is ...

Westboro Baptist Church have said the Oklahoma tornado is God venting his rage because basketball player Jason Collins came out as gay in April. Co...

Chaos in the aftermath of the devastating Oklahoma tornado may have meant that officials radically overestimated the death toll - with authorities say...

Touching footage of a survivor of the Oklahoma tornado being reunited with the dog she thought she had lost has emerged. Barbara Garcia was being ...

Powerful tornados ripped through Oklahoma, with dozens believed to have been killed in winds of up to 200mph, including at least 20 children at an ele...

British aid workers are coordinating an emergency response to the powerful earthquake that has hit China's Sichuan province, leaving more than 100 peo...

More than 100 people are known to have been killed and hundreds more injured after an earthquake in Sichaun province, China. According to state off...

This focus on the very young is perhaps a natural reflex, yet we mustn't allow it to blind us to the needs of older people. As a doctor myself, and currently president of an international medical humanitarian organisation operating in emergencies around the world, I want to challenge our sense that we should always focus first on the needs of the very young in emergencies.

One dead, hundreds displaced as flooding blights Britain. ...

As a result of Hurricane Sandy, the current Caribbean death toll is greater than the current US death toll although news coverage would suggest otherwise. There are already victims yet the focus is on the prospective fatalities - namely in America.

Earlier this week, an Italian judge summarily convicted seven participants in a meeting of the Italian Serious Risks Commission who evaluated the haza...

Specialist insurance market Lloyd's of London announced its most profitable half-year results since 2008. Lloyd’s, a marketplace in London where ...

As Hurricane Isaac crashed on to land, some Louisiana residents ignored warnings of potentially life-threatening storm surges and 100mph gusts and sim...

A second volcano in New Zealand has experienced a small eruption just days after Mount Tongariro burst into life for the first time in more than a cen...

Large swathes of Britain remain on flood alert with more heavy and persistent downfalls forecast to further dampen the summer season. Storms that b...

The death of nine climbers - including three Britons - in the French Alps is the latest avalanche to claim the lives of mountaineers. The avalanche...

During the chaos that ensued after an earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia on Wednesday, the Thai wing of KFC has come under fire over a comme...

A British woman has described the moment she was crushed by a giant wave during a round-the-world yacht race. Jane Hitchins was left with injuries ...

The last few days I have spent scouring the tsunami-devastated coastline of Japan's north-east. From Ishinomaki to Onagawa, Shichigahama to Kesennuma, the landscape has been drastically altered as Japan presses on with the world's costliest disaster recovery till date.

The death toll continues to rise in the wake of powerful thunderstorms and tornadoes that ripped across the American Midwest. At least 35 people ha...