In a staggering display of cruelty, South African police laid siege to an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, leaving at least 78 workers dead by mid-January. Informal miners are the shadow of an ...

An employee at China Yan, a Chinese restaurant in Homestead, Florida, was caught on camera mixing a large bowl of food with his bare hands and bare arms.

In addition to excavators, rescuers are using search dogs, life-detection cameras and other specialized rescue equipment to locate survivors. At night, floodlights and drones illuminate the disaster ...