Grenfell disaster quango's red tape is 'hampering the removal of dangerous cladding from other towers'

The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) was set up two years ago in a bid to prevent a repeat of the disaster which claimed 72 lives in 2017.
Indiatimes

Hong Kong high-rise fire: China Taiping shares slump on feared insurance exposure; disaster city's worst in decades

China Taiping Insurance Holdings shares dropped amid concerns over its exposure to a Hong Kong construction project linked to a devastating high-rise fire. The blaze, which killed at least 44 people, ...
AOL

Horrifying Scene Caught On Video As Massive Fire Rips Through Hong Kong High-Rise

At least 36 people have lost their lives in one of Hong Kong’s deadliest high-rise disasters in recent memory, after a massive fire tore through the Wang Fuk Court residential complex in Tai Po on ...
The Independent

Climate crisis: Extreme weather driving rise in major disaster events, UN report finds

Disasters caused by extreme weather events have surged in number over recent decades, causing suffering and hardship on a huge scale, with the climate crisis largely responsible for the rise, a UN ...
BBC

Risk of Collapse

A high-rise disaster in Surfside, Florida; a French showcase for the hard right; Australia's mouse plague; a power scandal in Lebanon; German views on a historic game of football. Show more Although ...
Investing

Mexican search-and-rescue team on hold near Florida high-rise disaster

SURFSIDE, Fl. (Reuters) -Seven Mexican search-and-rescue volunteers who flew to Florida to help after a residential high-rise near Miami collapsed have been barred from the disaster site because of ...
Daily Record

Massive 7.7 earthquake shakes Thailand reducing high-rise buildings to rubble

A massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake has hit Thailand this morning leaving high-rise buildings were reduced to dust and rubble as locals share the apocalyptic scenes. Water was seen cascading over the ...