disaster

Honolulu with Waikiki beach, Hawaii. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Watch: On the morning you wake (to the end of the world) (ARTE)

Disruptions were reported across the state, although it was a false alarm

May 8, 2025| ARTE
Steven Scicluna said his home was flooded by 1.6 meters of water in just 2 hours

'Disaster beyond belief': Maltese artist's home destroyed in Valencia floods

Floods washed away the first floor of Steven Scicluna's family home

November 1, 2024| Jessica Arena
DecEx 2024 will bring together Malta’s law enforcement, voluntary organisations and private companies that specialise in search and rescue efforts.

Help Malta’s first responders gear up for disaster

Zaar campaign supporting DecEx 2024, a disaster simulation and training exercise

October 27, 2024| Press Release
The Italian city of Venice is menaced by sea-level rising. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Watch: After the flood (ARTE)

Rising water level is mostly due to a combination of melt water from glaciers and ice sheets and thermal expansion of seawater as it warms

July 25, 2024| ARTE
Police enter the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping mall after a stabbing incident. Photo: AFP

Watch: Six killed in Sydney shopping centre attack

The incidents occurred at Westfield Bondi Junction mall complex

April 13, 2024| Times of Malta
Malta Civil Protection rescuers were deployed to Turkey in February. (Civil Protection Department)

Earthquake reaction exercise in Selmun on Wednesday

Police, AFM, Civil Protection in joint exercise

April 9, 2024| Times of Malta
Palestinian children suffering from malnutrition receive treatment at a healthcare centre in Rafah. Photo: AFP

Famine imminent in north Gaza, an 'unprecedented' crisis - UN

'People in Gaza are starving to death right now'

March 19, 2024| AFP
An Indian sand artist creates a sand sculpture of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Puri beach in eastern Odisha state on March 7, 2015.

'I believe our kid is still alive' - MH370 flight victims' families still hope

Plane with 239 on board mysteriously vanished 10 years ago

March 8, 2024| AFP
Tina Cordova poses in front of the entrance of White Sands Missile Range where Trinity test site is located, near White Sands, New Mexico. Photos: Valerie Macon/AFP

Ignored by ‘Oppenheimer', atomic test victims speak out

The test took place amid thunderstorms, despite scientists’ warnings

February 29, 2024| AFP
eople look at the aftermath of destroyed homes after an explosion ripped through a firework warehouse Photo: Madaree Tohlala / AFP

Nine killed in Thai firework warehouse blast

115 injured in Sungai Kolok explosion

July 29, 2023| AFP
The victims on board the tender boat just before it left Xlendi Bay. One of the lifejackets is seen marked. Picture taken from inquiry report

Ten years ago: the French tourists' celebration that ended in tragedy

Five tourists died when their boat was swamped by water in bad weather

May 8, 2023| Claudia Calleja
John Gera, Janine Theuma Castelletti, Joanne Camilleri and Claudine Suleiman together with K9 Dog Logan Camilleri.

K-9 Urban Search and Rescue Malta organises international exercise

Event included participants from Malta, Slovakia, Sweden and Norway

April 9, 2023| Press Release
A general view of the potassium mine where three people were trapped after a collapse, in Suria, 75 kilometres from Barcelona, on March 9, 2023. Photos: Lluis Gene / AFP

Spain confirms three dead in mine collapse       

The last major mining accident in Spain was in October 2013, when six people were killed

March 9, 2023| AFP
A still from the footage released on Wednesday night.

Watch: Unseen footage of Titanic wreck released

One-hour video from 1986 diving expedition finally sees the light of day

February 16, 2023| Times of Malta
Aerial view shows collapsed buildings in Hatay, southeastern Turkey. Photo: AFP

Turkish residents in Malta lose relatives to devastating earthquake  

They speak of cities in ruins, destroyed family homes and displaced relatives

February 9, 2023| Giulia Magri
Emergency workers tend to people injured in the stampede. AFP file photo

South Korea parliament votes to impeach minister over crowd crush

The Halloween crowd crush had killed more than 150 people

February 8, 2023| AFP
Details of this terrible tragedy were immortalised in black and white in the Malta Government Gazette of Friday, February 14, 1823, archived at the National Library of Malta, Valletta.

Tears and grief on the last day of Carnival – Fabian Mangion

When a charitable act during the Carnival merriment of 1823 ended in a tragedy

February 5, 2023| Fabian Mangion
In this file photo taken on April 15, 2019, the steeple and spire collapses as smoke and flames engulf the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Photo: Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP

Notre-Dame to regain spire this year and reopen end-2024

Preparatory work to start reinstalling the spire began this week

February 3, 2023| AFP
The silver-coloured cylinder is smaller than a human fingernail. Photo: AFP, Government of Western Australia, Department of Fire and Emergency Services

Relief as Australia finds lost radioactive capsule

The silver-coloured cylinder is smaller than a human fingernail

February 2, 2023| AFP
A man and a boy walk across the frozen Reflecting Pool towards the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall in Washington. Photo: AFP

'Blizzard of the century' leaves nearly 50 dead across US

Buffalo is the epicentre of the crisis

December 26, 2022| AFP
The O2 Academy in Brixton. Photo: Shutterstock

Four people 'critical' after crush at London concert venue

Detectives are investigating

December 16, 2022| AFP
270 lives had been claimed in the bombing. AFP file photo

Alleged Lockerbie bombmaker in US custody

270 lives had been claimed in the 1988 bombing

December 11, 2022| AFP
The explosion was in the famous Istiklal shopping street. Photo: AFP

Erdogan says Istanbul 'attack' blast kills six

More than 50 others are wounded

November 13, 2022| AFP
The site of the collapsed buildings. Photo: AFP

One body found after buildings collapse in France's Lille

Two small adjoining houses collapsed in a shopping street

November 13, 2022| AFP
The 233-metre British-era suspension bridge was only reopened to the public on Wednesday. Photo: Shutterstock

75 dead in India bridge collapse

Scores of people were sent tumbling into the river below

October 30, 2022| AFP
Residents walk among debris from destroyed buildings in Mogadishu. Photo: AFP

Death toll from Somalia twin bombings climbs to 100

Another 300 are wounded

October 30, 2022| AFP
People look at the scene where the disaster occured. Photo: AFP

More than 150 killed in Halloween stampede in Seoul

One of the country's worst disasters

October 30, 2022| AFP
Mochamad Munif and his mother Lutvia Damayant mourn over the grave of Mochamad's daughter. Photo: AFP

At Indonesia cemetery, father kisses daughter killed in stadium crush goodbye

At least 131 people including 32 children died and hundreds more were injured

October 7, 2022| AFP
During a vigil in honour of the victims of James Smith Cree Nation's series of stabbings, in Saskatoon. Photo: AFP

Manhunt in Canada stabbing spree ends with both suspects dead

A days-long search for the second man suspected of carrying out a deadly stabbing spree in a remote western Canadian Indigenous community ended Wednesday, with the 32-year-old dying after being taken into custody, police said. Federal police Assistant...

September 8, 2022| AFP
Firefighters on site. Photo: AFP, Vietnam News Agency

12 dead, 11 injured in Vietnam karaoke bar fire

A fire tore through a karaoke bar in southern Vietnam killing 12 people and leaving 11 injured, a local official said Wednesday. The blaze engulfed the second and third floors of the building on Tuesday night, trapping customers and staff members as...

September 7, 2022| AFP