Hawaii volcano lava wave nears homesSmoldering lava from a slow-erupting volcano has reached within yards (several meters) of homes on Hawaii's Big Island, emergency officials said.
Panicked residents flee Italy refinery fireA huge fire broke out overnight in an oil refinery on the Italian island of Sicily, causing traffic jams as panicked residents fled the area.
Bomb rocks Chile metro, seven injuredA bomb rocked a Santiago metro station on Monday, injuring seven people in a blast Chile's government called a "terrorist act."
09 September 2014
5.2 earthquake in Almaty, KazakhstanAlmaty is located near relatively young mountains in a seismologically active zone, but earthquakes of such magnitude are extremally rare.
Floods hit blast-ravaged Taiwan cityTorrential rain forced the Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung to shut schools and offices as floods overwhelmed its sewage system.
Nearly 400 die in China quakeA total of 381 people had been killed by the tremor, with 1,801 injured. More than 12,000 houses collapsed and 30,000 were damaged in the quake zone in the southwestern province of Yunnan, China.