STORY: Forty people were killed and at least 120 people were wounded in an explosion at a weapons cache in the central Syrian city of Homs on Thursday, a group opposed to President Bashar al-Assad ...

This was the moment yet another tornado made its presence felt in the United States. This one touched down near Adairville in Kentucky. Lee Robey whose farm suffered some damage says he was taken ...

At least one person has been killed and hundreds displaced as heavy rain caused flooding in the central Peruvian region of Huanuco after three rivers burst their banks, according to local media.

In the 1870 Jules Verne classic "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", underwater explorer Captain Nemo predicted the mining of the ocean floor's mineral bounty - zinc, iron, silver and gold.