Brazilian soccer team’s plane crashes in Colombia; 75 dead
By LUIS BENAVIDES and JOSHUA GOODMAN A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match of its history crashed into a Colombian hillside and broke into pieces,…
Search and rescue efforts
115 dead as train derails in north India; some still trapped
By RAJESH KUMAR SINGH Rescuers worked through the night to pull people out of mangled coaches after an overnight passenger train derailed early Sunday in northern India, killing at least…
Captive’s rescue leads to break in grisly quadruple slaying
By MEG KINNARD and SEANNA ADCOX For 13 years, the relatives came together periodically to grieve one of South Carolina’s grisliest mass shootings and compare leads with stumped investigators. On…
Italy earthquake kills dozens, reduces towns to rubble
By PAOLO SANTALUCIA and NICOLE WINFIELD A strong earthquake in central Italy reduced three towns to rubble as people slept early Wednesday, with reports that as many as 50 people…
Haunting image of Syrian boy rescued from Aleppo rubble
By ZEINA KARAM and PHILIP ISSA Syrian opposition activists have released haunting footage showing a young boy rescued from a partially destroyed building in the aftermath of a devastating airstrike…
Water everywhere, Louisiana residents struggle for dry land
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, MAX BECHERER and REBECCA SANTANA Barbara Manuel saw a flicker of sun and that gave her hope that the worst of the horrific flooding to hit southern…
9/11 worker pleads for medical coverage with billboards
A New Jersey man who spent three weeks looking for survivors in the days after the 9/11 attacks is using billboards in a push to have his kidney disease added…
Iraq: Death toll from IS-claimed bombing climbs to 157
By SINAN SALAHEDDIN The death toll from the truck bombing at a bustling Baghdad commercial street rose to 157 on Monday, Iraqi authorities said, as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered…