EMERGENCY teams in China’s south-western Sichuan province battled today to locate 28 people missing after a rain-triggered landslide killed one person and buried homes.

California officials quietly disbanded a dedicated state wildfire-fighting team last year, less than three years after military leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Office of Emergency Services touted it ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that it has deployed an emergency medical team to help Uganda fight a deadly Ebola ...

The escalation in fighting prompted an emergency UN Security Council meeting, originally set for Monday, to be moved up to Sunday. Congolese army spokesman General Sylvain Ekenge told journalists ...