A fire broke out at a luxury London hotel known as a celebrity hotspot, engulfing the historic building and forcing about 100 ...

London faced one of its deadliest disasters—the Great Plague. The bubonic plague, carried by rats and fleas, spread rapidly ...

What started as a small escalator fire turned into the deadliest disaster in the history of the London Underground.

Recovery crews have removed the first major pieces of airplane wreckage from the Potomac River after an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter crashed in midair last week.

Pioneering British artist Charli XCX and groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar are up against The Beatles; UK singer and Grammys first-timer RAYE is competing with viral stars ...

Members of the L.A. County Fire Department present album of the year at the Grammys. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times) ...

Altadena was one of several communities scorched by the fires. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) Saturday, 11:00 a.m. PSTCal Fire data reported the Palisades and Eaton fires at full containment ...

Adrian Tinniswood is an adjunct professor of history at Maynooth University and the author of “By Permission of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London.” In early September 1666, ...

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If you are wondering where to start, Los Angeles County has set up an online portal with links to local funds that have been set up to help first responders and fire victims with housing ...

While evacuation orders remained in place for areas around the immediate perimeter of the fire, other nearby neighborhoods were reduced from evacuation orders to warnings, while warnings were ...

The Hughes fire, burning near Castaic Lake north of Santa Clarita, exploded to more than 10,000 acres of mostly brush in just a few hours. More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders and ...