The Department of Energy says it has closed what it calls the largest loan package in its history, approving $26.5 billion in financing for subsidiaries of Southern Co. that is projected to deliver more than $7 billion in electricity cost savings to customers in Georgia and Alabama.

Experts zero in on likely cause of deadly Nepal mudslide, with more than 1,400 missing
The catastrophic floods in Nepal and Tibet now estimated to have killed hundreds were likely triggered by a massive glacier collapse and debris flow that
