As The Independent launches SafeCall – a new service to help bring missing young people to safety – Tara Cobham speaks to support worker J G...

Hong Kong police arrested the bosses of a construction company on suspicion of manslaughter on Thursday over the city's worst fire in nearly...

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The Chapel Hill Police department said in a release Thursday at 12:28 p.m. that it is searching for a missing 14-year-old, and asked for th...

Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds remain unaccounted for after Wednesday's blaze.

Police urged anyone with information to come forward, following the 55-year-old American woman going missing while on the cruise.

Authorities in Hong Kong have arrested three construction company employees over the deadly fire still burning.

A massive fire tore through a high-rise housing complex in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Authorities say at least 44 people have died in the fire...

Sri Lanka stopped passenger trains and closed roads in some parts of the country where landslides and floods triggered by heavy rains have c...

Hundreds of people were evacuated, but at last count 279 people were still unaccounted for after the huge fire in Hong Kong.

Residents began mobilizing to track down the hundreds authorities said were still missing, creating WhatsApp groups and an app to try to loc...

Firefighters struggle to reach residents potentially trapped on upper floors of burning housing complex.

The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in locating a missing 10-day-old infant and her mother, who officials...

Appeal alongside Missing People charity to launch lifeline for young people in crisis hit more than £75,000 in donations over the weekend

Hong Kong is reeling after a devastating fire engulfed a high-rise housing estate, claiming at least 44 lives and leaving hundreds missing....