Worst Disasters News Today

An emotional memorial is held for the 368 migrants, mainly from Eritrea, who died 10 years ago.

Like many impoverished residents of downtown Johannesburg, Sihle Dube had rented a tiny room from someone who didn't actually own it, in a rundown building that was becoming a trash-strewn haven for drugs and crime. Dube scrambled into his trousers and tried to climb out of his first floor window, but he slipped on a satellite dish, fell and blacked out. More than 70 others did not make it out alive, one of Johannesburg's worst disasters in living memory.

12 years after a terrible nuclear tragedy unfolded in Japan during the 2011 tsunami, the country is still grappling with the aftermath of radioactive fallout that turned the Japanese city of Fukushima into an apocalyptic ghost town.