An equipment failure stalled a cable lift in the Austrian Alps on Tuesday, stranding 79 sightseers in gondolas for two hours before rescuers could get them down,...

The British government unveiled a package of tax cuts and spending Tuesday to try to reinvigorate a housing market suffering its worst crash since the early 1990s.

Rescue teams crossed rugged ground in the pouring rain on Sunday to reach survivors of an earthquake that killed at least 27 people, turned tens of thousands of homes...

Rescue teams headed to China’s southwestern Sichuan province after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake killed 22 people and injured hundreds, local authorities said...

The Danish central bank said Monday it has taken over the nation’s 10th largest bank, a 124-year-old institution which had been struggling amid global financial...

The Danish central bank said Monday it has taken over the country’s eighth largest bank after it was hit by the subprime housing crisis.

Rescue teams are evacuating people from 180 homes in a Florida town about 25 miles north of Orlando due to flooding from what was Tropical Storm Fay.

Rescue crews have made verbal contact with two teenage boys who fell through a snow field near a mountain summit east of Seattle.

Rescue crews have located a handful of hikers who were missing after floods tore through a remote part of the Grand Canyon, authorities said Tuesday.

Rescue crews have located a handful of hikers who were missing after floods tore through a remote part of the Grand Canyon, authorities said Tuesday.

A Houston councilwoman pulled a driver from a fiery car, just weeks after angering police by coming to the aid of a man she believed was being mistreated during an...

A man was rescued from an abandoned gold mine Sunday after tumbling more than 100 feet and spending two nights at the bottom of the dark shaft, authorities said.

Authorities in California say a man has been rescued after falling 100 feet and spending two nights trapped at the bottom of an abandoned mine shaft.

Police have charged a suburban Philadelphia man with swiping an ambulance from outside a hospital. Authorities say the crew of the Lafayette Ambulance & Rescue...

The Treasury Department says it has awarded a contract to investment firm Morgan Stanley to help the government assess the risks facing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and...

The Treasury Department says it has awarded a contract to investment firm Morgan Stanley to help the government assess the risks facing mortgage giants Fannie Mae and...

Authorities in Dallas say a man burned over half of his body while apparently trying to steal copper wire from a high-voltage power line has died.

A man who climbed to the top of a utility pole Friday in an effort to steal copper was jolted by a high-voltage wire and burned over 50 percent of his body, officials...

British wildlife experts and the coast guard struggled on Friday to save the life of a sick, 26-foot-long (8-meter-long) whale that was freed from a mudflat where it...

Rescue workers in Central Texas are at the scene of a reported crane collapse on a bridge about 40 miles east of Austin.