Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was formally sworn in Thursday for a second straight term in office, following a landslide victory in national elections that cemented his grip on power in the world's largest democracy.
A tsunami that hit Pandeglang, Serang and South Lampung, Indonesia, Saturday night, killed at least 168 people and injured at least 745, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, head of public relations at Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency, said on television.
At least one person was killed and six injured when a commuter train carrying around 150 people was derailed near the Spanish city of Barcelona, officials said early Tuesday morning.
Rescuers were still searching Friday for at least 50 people feared buried under debris up to 15 meters deep following a landslide in the Philippines Thursday.
"We have two more bodies to identify," an official told the crowd through a megaphone as they lined up in the sweltering heat Tuesday.
Rescue workers are using heavy equipment to dig through the debris from a landslide that buried houses and people in the small town of Atsuma on Japan's northern island prefecture of Hokkaido.
A judge says the final wrongful death lawsuit from the devastating Oso mudslide of 2014 can go to trial later this year.
A portion of California's scenic Highway 1 reopened Wednesday more than a year after a major landslide buried the road, transportation officials said.
The Japanese government says 100 are dead or presumed dead after heavy rains, floods and mudslides hit western Japan, according to The Associated Press.
It all started on a whim and a chance after a landslide loosed cedar logs and a Selkirk High School shop class teacher asked who wanted to turn them into a canoe.
More than 70 people had to evacuate their homes near Yakima about a month ago because a major crack in Rattlesnake Ridge was causing a serious landslide threat.
According to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, the most likely scenario in the Rattlesnake Ridge landslide near Union Gap is that the landslide will slowly continue to move south, where the mass will fall into the quarry pit and accumulate.
Geologists are sharing new information about a major land crack on Rattlesnake Ridge near Yakima that continues to threaten a landslide.
A geologist hired to study growing cracks on Rattlesnake Ridge near Yakima estimates up to 1 million cubic yards of rock and soil could move down the ridge in a landslide.
Officials in Yakima County are keeping a wary eye on a slow-moving landslide on Rattlesnake Ridge.
At least five people are dead and 15 are still missing after a landslide swept through a remote village in southern Chile on Saturday, the country's president said.
Rescue efforts at the scene of a landslide that flattened a village in southwest China have been called off after authorities warned of the risk of more land collapsing.
Thousands of rescuers are searching through rubble to find 93 people missing after a landslide devastated their village in Sichuan province, southwestern China.
At least 15 bodies have been recovered from the rubble of a landslide in southwestern China, state news outlets reported Sunday, citing emergency officials.
Big Sur has gotten even bigger, because of a May 20 landslide.
At least 91 people are dead and more than 100 are missing after heavy monsoon rains drenched Sri Lanka's southwest, the country's Disaster Management Centre said Friday.
It's been a brutal year so far for California's infrastructure.
A monster of a landslide has buried a quarter-mile section of the scenic coastal highway in California's Big Sur region, piling fresh misery on a remote area that hasn't seen the road fully passable for months.
