The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

The deaths follow a lengthy stand-off between South African police and illegal miners who were trespassing in disused gold ...

SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism to ...

Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

A specialized mine rescue camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer (1.6-mile) deep mineshaft ...

Of the 324 people pulled out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, 78 had perished from starvation or dehydration. The illegal ...

LONDON and ISTANBUL -- A predawn fire at a hotel in the Kartalkaya Ski Resort in Turkey killed at least 76, with another 51 injured, Turkey's Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Tuesday.

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the Buffelsfontein mine, after security officials cut off food, water ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa's government for failing to prevent what they call a "massacre" at the Buffelsfontein mine, after security officials cut off food, water, and other ...

By Elaine Glusac This year, travelers of means will be checking into remote new lodges and upscale all-inclusive resorts, and demanding reasonable prices, relatively speaking. “The high-end ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...

Tshoaeli escaped from custody last week after police concluded their operations to bring illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein shaft to the surface. Asaneng said while the purpose of Operation Vala ...