
Bangladesh plans to raise pay for garment workers
Bangladesh's government plans to raise the minimum wage for garment workers after the deaths of more than 1,100 people in the collapse of a factory ...

Woods keeps it dry and wins Players Championship
A weekend filled with sharp words between Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia came down to one last showdown Sunday in The Players Championship, this one ...

Israel grounds drone aircraft fleet after crash
Israel's military has grounded a fleet of high altitude surveillance drones after one was downed over the Mediterranean Sea. The military says it ...

Woman rescued from Bangladesh rubble recovering
A seamstress who survived 17 days before being rescued from a collapsed garment factory building outside of Bangladesh's capital was panicked, ...

America's Cup expected to go on after fatal wreck
The head of the America's Cup planning effort said Saturday he expects sailing's most prestigious event to go forward after the death of a sailor on ...

America's Cup fatality raises safety questions
Sailors know the risks and rewards that come with these new space-age America's Cup boats that speed like race cars across the waves. Still, the death ...

Texas launches criminal probe into plant explosion
Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last ...

4 pit bulls blamed for S. Calif. jogger's killing
A pack of dogs remained under quarantine at a Mojave Desert shelter on Friday as investigators tried to determine whether they were involved in a ...
Some have survived many days after calamities
Reshma Begum's survival for 17 days without medical assistance in the collapsed eight-floor garment factory building in Bangladesh isn't the only ...

AP PHOTOS: Woman freed from collapse in Bangladesh
Workers in Bangladesh rescued a seamstress buried in the rubble of a collapsed garment factory building for 17 days on Friday as the death toll shot ...
Search ends for 2 Australians lost off cruise ship
Two Australians plunged off a cruise ship into the ocean despite higher-than-required railings to prevent accidental falls, the cruise company said ...
Cruise company: Couple's fall likely no accident
The cruise ship railing over which an Australian couple fell into the ocean was higher than industry regulations required and was designed to prevent ...

Bangladesh factory collapse death toll hits 1,034
The death toll from a garment factory building that collapsed more than two weeks ago outside the Bangladeshi capital soared past 1,000 on Friday, ...
2 cruise passengers fall overboard off Australia
No trace of an Australian couple believed to have fallen off a cruise ship has been found despite an intense, day-long search, officials said Friday.

NTSB investigating Honolulu helicopter crash
The president of a helicopter company whose small copter crash-landed on a downtown Honolulu street praised the pilot Thursday, while the National ...
Nigeria military helicopter crashes in oil delta
A Nigerian military helicopter has crashed in the country's oil-rich southern delta, just days after one of its jets crashed. A statement from ...

Ripple effect after fire takes out Wyo. town store
It all began when a man with black shoe polish smeared all over his face exited Interstate 25 and barreled into town one evening last winter.

Bangladesh garment disaster death toll nears 900
The death toll from the collapse of a building housing five garment factories has climbed to nearly 900, officials said Thursday, as authorities ...

7 dead, 2 missing after ship crashes in Genoa
Italian prosecutors placed the captain of the Jolly Nero cargo ship under investigation Wednesday for alleged manslaughter after his vessel slammed ...

Study: Distracted driving deaths underreported
Seventeen-year-old Kelsey Raffaele's last words were over a cellphone to a friend: "I'm going to crash!" The car she was driving had clipped a snow ...

Bangladesh garment disaster death toll reaches 761
The death toll from a collapsed building housing five garment factories rose to 761 on Wednesday as authorities started disbursing salary and other ...

22 dead in gas tanker explosion near Mexico City
A natural gas tanker truck lost control, hit a center divider and exploded on a highway lined by homes in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec early ...

Bangladesh garment disaster death toll reaches 705
Hundreds of garment factory workers who survived a building collapse in Bangladesh protested for compensation, as the death toll from the country's ...

19 dead in gas tanker explosion near Mexico City
A gas tanker truck exploded on a highway lined with homes in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec early Tuesday, killing at least 19 people and injuring ...