In the wake of the recent Costa Concordia disaster off Italy’s west coast, NewsFeed takes a look back at some of the world’s worst peacetime ship disasters since Titanic.
Insert your own “My Heart Will Go On” joke here.
While winds have started to whip the coast, Australia is still bracing for the full fury of Cyclone Yasi, a massive category 5 storm whose center is expected to hit northern Queensland around midnight local time on Wednesday.
Just as things were getting better in Australia, they’re getting worse in Brazil.
NewsFeed is always reluctant to be morbid, but this has really been a banner year for catastrophe.
Lake Delhi was nine miles long and a favorite vacation spot for Iowa residents. But in less than one day, a broken dam made the lake disappear.
That shaking DC residents felt today wasn’t the ground-breaking passage of the financial reform bill: it was actually an earthquake!
