Passenger plane catches fire at South Korean airport. All 176 people on board are evacuated

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A passenger plane caught fire before takeoff at an airport in South Korea late Tuesday, but all 176 people on board were safely evacuated, authorities said. The Airbus plane operated by South Korean airline Air Busan was preparing to leave for Hong Kong...

1 dead after a house explosion in West Virginia

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A house has exploded in a West Virginia neighborhood, killing one man and prompting nearby homes to be evacuated, officials said. Firefighters responded to a report of a house explosion in the Chestnut Hills community of Clarksburg on Sunday. When they...

French residents rescued from flooded homes by boat as Storm Herminia hits Normandy and Brittany

RENNES, France (AP) — Residents in western France used boats to escape their flooded homes on Monday as rivers and waterways broke their banks after successive storms battered Normandy and Brittany. The national weather service had issued flood and wind warnings as Storm Herminia...

Over 50,000 under evacuation orders or warnings as wildfire imperils homes north of Los Angeles

CASTAIC, Calif. (AP) — More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders or warnings Wednesday as a huge and fast-moving wildfire swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles, but fire officials said a rapid ground and air assault was giving them the upper hand. The...

More than 50,000 are under evacuation orders or warnings from fire burning north of Los Angeles

Evacuations ordered as a new fast-moving wildfire threatens homes in rugged area north of Los Angeles

16 suffer burns, injuries in methane fire at a coal mine in Poland

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Doctors said Wednesday that 16 coal miners have suffered burns and injuries from a methane gas fire at a coal mine in southern Poland. Lukasz Pach, head of the regional ambulance service in Katowice, said 14 of those injured have been hospitalized. ...

Several people are injured at a Berlin concert by US rapper JPEGMafia because of pepper spray

BERLIN (AP) — Several people were injured at a concert in Berlin by American rapper JPEGMafia because of pepper spray, German news agency dpa reported Tuesday. Six people were taken to a hospital with respiratory problems and the rapper had to end the concert early, it said. ...

Palestinians trek across rubble to return to their homes as Gaza ceasefire takes hold

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Even before the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas was fully in place on Sunday, Palestinians in the war-battered Gaza Strip began to return to the remains of the homes they had evacuated during the 15-month war. Majida Abu Jarad made quick work...