An explosion in a coal mine in eastern Iran killed at least 34 workers and injured 17 others, officials said Sunday, marking one of the worst mining disasters in the country's history as others ...

On the morning of December 21, 1910, just four days before Christmas, the town of Westhoughton in Lancashire woke to the shock of a subterranean thunderclap. It was the sound of the Hulton Colliery ...

DAKAR, Senegal — A landslide last week collapsed several tunnels at a major coltan mine in eastern Congo, leaving at least 200 people dead in the rebel-controlled site. The collapse occurred on ...

TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va., Jan. 2 -- An early-morning explosion at a coal mine Monday apparently trapped 13 miners nearly two miles into a horizontal tunnel that is about 260 feet underground, state ...

Minnie M. Keiter invited a college friend, Verlista Shaul, home to Saint Clair on Easter break in 1887. Both were students at Vassar College, a prestigious institution of higher education for women — ...