Huge China explosions leave scores dead, hundreds injuredEnormous explosions in a major Chinese port city killed at least 44 people and injured more than 500, leaving a devastated industrial landscape of incinerated cars, toppled shipping containers and burnt-out buildings.
Typhoon Soudelor kills 14 in China: state mediaTyphoon Soudelor killed 14 people in eastern China and four are missing after parts of the country were hit by the heaviest rains in a century.
10 August 2015
France hunts for more MH370 debris off Reunion islandFrance launched a hunt for more wreckage from the ill-fated MH370 plane off Reunion island on Friday in a fresh effort to shed light on one of aviation's biggest mysteries.
Rains, floods kill 81 in Pakistan: disaster agencyTorrential rains and flooding have killed 81 people in Pakistan over the past two weeks and affected almost 300,000, the disaster management agency said Tuesday, warning of more bad weather to come.
29 July 2015
Bosnia marks 20 years since Srebrenica massacreThousands of people were pouring into Srebrenica to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the massacre of thousands of Muslims in the worst mass killing in Europe since World War II.
Landslides kill at least 21 in India's DarjeelingLandslides triggered by heavy rain killed at least 21 people across India's famed tea-growing region of Darjeeling, with more feared trapped under mounds of mud and debris.
Tunisia cannot face jihadists alone, president saysTunisia cannot stand up to the jihadist threat alone, President Beji Caid Essebsi said after a gunman killed 28 people at a tourist resort, calling for a unified global strategy.
27 June 2015
Georgia hunts down another tiger from flooded zooGeorgian police were hunting down a tiger who escaped from the capital's flood-ravaged zoo after after another tiger mauled a man to death before being killed.
Lions, tigers on the loose in deadly Tbilisi floodsLions, tigers and even a hippopotamus escaped from a zoo in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, adding to chaos caused by severe flooding that killed at least 12 people.