A veteran engineer and a young conductor try frantically to stop a half-mile-long freight train carrying enough combustible liquids and poisonous gas to wipe out a nearby city.
Seeing my pants leg on fire sends me over the edge. I twist and scuttle backward on my hands and feet, shrieking, trying to remove myself from the horror.
The initial foot fault that began the fireworks was a terrible call. It was unconscionable. That being said, it's no excuse for Serena to berate an official.
Disability insurer Aflac Inc fired comedian Gilbert Gottfried as the abrasive voice of its iconic duck on Monday after a series of riffs about the earthquake in Japan.
Disability insurer Aflac Inc fired comedian Gilbert Gottfried as the abrasive voice of its iconic duck on Monday after a series of riffs about the earthquake in Japan.
An extremely rare phenomenon, a fire rainbow occurs when the sun's light passes through high-altitude cirrus clouds that have a high content of ice crystals.
A sulfur miner stands inside the crater of the Kawah Ijen volcano at night, holding a torch, looking towards a flow of liquid sulfur which has caught fire and burns with an eerie blue flame.
The Kamchatka Peninsula, one section of the intermittent chain of volcanoes called the Ring of Fire, has seen the most explosive eruptions of any place on Earth.
In the hot, expansive Karakum desert is a hole that has been on fire for 40 years. Known as the "Gates of Hells" by locals, the crater can be seen glowing for miles around.
In the hot, expansive Karakum desert is a hole that has been on fire for 40 years. Known as the "Gates of Hells" by locals, the crater can be seen glowing for miles around.
NATO has stated that it strongly regrets the loss of life after a "friendly fire" attack on rebel tanks in eastern Libya, adding that the situation on the ground was very fluid.
Fire ants have evolved so remarkably that they can self-assemble into structural tools utilized by the entire colony, including a buoyant raft, to ensure it stays intact.
A power outage cut electricity to millions of people up and down the American southwest, prompting some residents to bond in ethereal fire lit settings.
Ashton Kutcher used his Twitter account to fire back. "I think Star magazine calling me a 'cheater' qualifies as defamation of character. I hope my lawyer agrees," he wrote.
The debut of Two and a Half Men was calculated as an emphatic adios to Charlie Harper, the character played by Charlie Sheen, who was fired after running into legal issues.
The debut of Two and a Half Men was calculated as an emphatic adios to Charlie Harper, the character played by Charlie Sheen, who was fired after running into legal issues.
Texas firefighters began an aerial assault of the massive wildfire that had raged for days, calling in a DC-10 airtanker capable of dropping more than 11,000 gallons of retardant at a time.
Texas firefighters began an aerial assault of the massive wildfire that had raged for days, calling in a DC-10 airtanker capable of dropping more than 11,000 gallons of retardant at a time.
Firefighters and church groups have become bedfellows with beer distributors in an effort to fight initiative 1100 in Washington state, which would deregulate the sale and distribution of alcohol.
Firefighters and church groups have become bedfellows with beer distributors in an effort to fight initiative 1100 in Washington state, which would deregulate the sale and distribution of alcohol.
Firefighters and church groups have become bedfellows with beer distributors in an effort to fight initiative 1100 in Washington state, which would deregulate the sale and distribution of alcohol.