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

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

The Coalbrook North Colliery disaster of January 21, 1960, remains one of the most catastrophic events in South African ...

In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...

And they were also eating cockroaches," he said on a phone call from his home.Allegations that the miners resorted to eating ...

(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe) Forensic service workers carry remains in blue body bags during a rescue operation to rescue miners ...

According to the volunteers, all that’s left underground now were some of the remains that they were struggling to bring up to the surface.

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...

Across the globe, human trafficking remains a serious problem, affecting millions of people each year, even those in Idaho.

An oral question from the Supreme Court to the Union government continues to remain unanswered even as rescue workers recover bodies of workers who died trapped in a flooded rat-hole coal mine at ...

The water level in the flooded rat-hole mine in Dima Hasao district of Assam remained unchanged, affecting the operations on Sunday to rescue the remaining five miners trapped beneath since January 6.