Nearly 200 years ago, in the depths of a freezing winter, a Sussex town became the scene of the deadliest avalanche in British history. In the early hours of 27 December, 1836, people living in ...

Vikram Sarabhai, the father of India’s space programme, died on December 30, 1971, in Kovalam, Kerala, at the age of 52. During his lifetime, Sarabhai had 38 institutions that are now leaders in space ...

at the 50th Metro Manila Film Festival awarding ceremony held in Solaire Resort in Parañaque City on December 27. It was a back-to-back win for GMA Pictures as the film studio also won last year ...

Disneyland is gearing up for a 70th anniversary celebration in 2025 to rival the yearlong parties for the 50th and 60th anniversaries with a new attraction, updated water show, character cavalcade ...

Relatives of victims and survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami hold a candle light vigil on the 20th anniversary, at Tsunami Memorial Park at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa district of Phang Nga ...

She was selected on 52 of the 53 votes cast, with the othervote going to skeleton world champion Hallie Clarke of Brighton, Ont. "Three golds at the Olympics. No other reason needed," wrote TSN ...

She was selected on 52 of the 53 votes cast, with the other vote going to skeleton world champion Hallie Clarke of Brighton, Ont. "Three golds at the Olympics. No other reason needed," wrote TSN ...

The worst affected area was northern Sumatra, where more than 120,000 people were killed Survivors and victims' relatives will this week mark the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean ...

Twenty years ago, the world was stunned by the Asian tsunami, whose towering waves killed an estimated 230,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and other countries the day after ...

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1-magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean triggered a tsunami with waves up to 100 feet high, killing an estimated 230,000 people. Twenty years later, people gathered in ...

A wake-up call for humanity Philémon Yang, President of the UN General Assembly, described the tsunami as “the first global disaster of the 21st century and one of the most devastating in recent ...