For more than sixty years, Sri Lanka has suffered repeated man-made disasters. Every few years, something man-made (manufactured) happens that pushes the country back by almost a decade. These ...

(TNS) — North Carolina legislators may need to put hundreds of millions of dollars into the state’s rainy-day fund to help with hurricane relief in case the federal government stops supporting ...

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DARJEELING: Environmentalists described the landslides in Darjeeling as a "man-made ecological disaster", the inevitable outcome of decades of deforestation, unplanned urbanisation and poor governance ...

Here in my adopted city of Vancouver, people are still reeling from the recent killing of 11 people by a man who intentionally drove his SUV into a crowded Filipino street festival. Among the victims ...

The international organization that monitors hunger crises around the world has declared that parts of Gaza are in famine. The U.N.-backed group of experts said that half a million people in Gaza, a ...

On November 25, a massive fire broke out in the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Hong Kong, China, claiming 161 deaths TASS FACTBOX. TASS editors have compiled a list of the largest man-made ...

When you turn on the television and see Pakistanis or Australians overwhelmed by floodwaters, do you feel more sympathy than you would for victims of ethnic conflict in Darfur? A European Journal of ...