She walked towards it and eventually found smoke billowing out of the tumble dryer. Touching the machine, she realised it was ...

The crew of a cargo ship that crashed into an oil tanker in the North Sea, killing a crew member, have told a jury about the ...

The British Embassy in Tehran has been temporarily closed after the ambassador and consular staff were evacuated following a ...

A woman has died following a fire at a sheltered housing block in west London. It broke out at about 16:30 GMT on 9 January ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reportedly ordered the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to its highest ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. As the Illinois governor, J. B. Pritzker, begins a run for a third term and ...

Caracas is reeling after a night residents describe as relentless helicopter gunfire, explosions and communications blackouts ...

Residents of an apartment block say they are "on edge all of the time" due to faulty alarms going off day and night. Heat ...

Fort Worth firefighters Julie Griffin and Samuel Gatlin pull hoses from a truck as they extinguish a tractor-trailer fire on the Interstate 35W service road near Altamesa Boulevard in Fort Worth on ...

Staying aware of your surroundings matters. That includes hearing smoke alarms, appliance beeps or a knock at the door. Still, real life gets busy. You wear headphones. You get focused. Sounds slip by ...

Dayton firefighters responded just before 2 a.m. to the first block of Livingston Avenue on a reported structure fire, according to Dayton District Fire Chief Nick Judge. When firefighters arrived, a ...

The cause of a fire that spread to three alarms and led to a temporary suspension of rail service in Arlington remains under investigation, according to the Arlington Fire Department. Fire crews were ...