About 40 homes were destroyed in Xinmo village in Maoxian county, after the side of a mountain collapsed at about 06:00 local time (22:00 GMT Friday), according to the BBC. Rescue teams are frantically searching for survivors trapped beneath rocks. ...

The Gloria Knolls Slide is at least 300,000 years old and 32 cubic km in volume, the BBC reports. The landslide could also have triggered a large tsunami, said the international team behind the find. The scientists said debris from ...