Columbia Memorial Hospital near Oregon's coastline is forging ahead with emergency plans in case of a major earthquake or ...

Unplanned urbanisation, violations of the National Building Code and the Detailed Area Plan (DAP), and rampant filling of wetlands with sand for housing projects have made Dhaka the riskiest city in ...

UNICEF's global appeal for 2026 emphasizes the need to adapt the humanitarian response amid diminishing resources.

Thousands of miles from China’s populous coastline, a sharp bend in a remote Himalayan river is set to become the centerpiece ...

If you’ve ever spent five minutes with Mike Biggs, you learned two things almost immediately: he cared about people and he ...

The rights panel flagged missing hydraulic platforms and turn table ladders as a serious safety risk and directed the state to submit a time-bound action plan.

Forged in the aftermath of the 2013 building collapse, which killed more than 1,130 garment workers and injured or maimed ...

US President Donald Trump's sudden and severe foreign aid cuts shuttered thousands of the camps’ schools and crippled child protection programs.

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Cupertino City Council set aside the first sum of money toward a multi-million-dollar renovation of a building deemed at risk ...

During January's fires, emergency alert failures killed trust: Altadena residents received evacuation orders five hours late, ...

The Times spent the last year investigating how government agencies handled the Eaton and Palisades fires. The reporting ...