On Dec. 3, 2013, a federal judge ruled that Detroit was eligible for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

In the intervening hours of December 2 and December 3 1984, poisonous methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the Union Carbine ...

History is full of some truly shocking disasters, ranging from man-made incidents to natural events that have torn through entire communities. Some ships in history have also met their untimely end in ...

He described the defeat as the “worst disaster and largest capitulation in British history”. For the defeated Commonwealth soldiers who had battled to save it, 80,000 of them immediately ...

Experts including hydraulic and civil engineers, geologists, urban planners and disaster relief specialists ... one of Spain's largest. The CHJ said it can only feed the information to regional ...

As Elton John’s musical ‘Tammy Faye’ announces it is to close just days after opening, Kevin E G Perry looks back at some of ...

We certainly can't forget about the 1947 Texas City Disaster, the worst industrial disaster in Texas' history. 581 people were killed on April 16, 1947 after an ammonium nitrate explosion that ...

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This was – according to disaster management officials – the biggest disaster rescue operation in South African history. The fires spanned at least 100 kilometres, and were bravely fought by a team of ...

A San Francisco street mural commemorates the 40th anniversary of the gas leak disaster in Bhopal, India, that killed ...