Just a few pieces of debris stood between Munna Qureshi and dozens of laborers who his team had been tasked with rescuing from deep inside a Himalayan tunnel after all previous attempts to free them ...

NICHOLAS COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) - “When it comes right down to it, would everyone do it? Be the hero?” In Brenda Sizemore eyes, the man who stayed behind at a flooding mine in Nicholas County is a hero.

A decade ago, 33 Chilean miners became a symbol of hope and solidarity after surviving for more than two months trapped deep underground in the Atacama desert. Today, far from the whirlwind of global ...

Conspicuously missing were the names of the 12 “rat miners” who put their lives on the line to complete that final breakthrough. “This does not surprise me,” said Mohammad Irshad Ansari, one of the ...