Portugal observed a national day of mourning Thursday after the capital’s worst disaster in recent history, when the Gloria Funicular crashed, causing several deaths. The 19th-century streetcar is one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lisbon is mourning 16 people who were killed in a crash of a picturesque hillside streetcar popular with tourists on Wednesday.

The first light over Lisbon revealed the shattered remains of the Gloria funicular, its distinctive yellow carriages in ruins after it derailed and crashed on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and ...

(CNN) — At least 16 people were killed and several injured after the carriage of a funicular – a type of railway that travels up and down steep slopes – derailed in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon on ...

Investigators are searching for the cause of the crash that killed 16 people, with questions focusing on a possible failure of the cable that kept the two cars in balance. By Emma Bubola and Daniela ...

LISBON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Flags flew at half-staff in Lisbon on Thursday after at least 17 people were killed and 21 injured in a crash of a hillside funicular railway popular with tourists, while ...

A preliminary report on the accident, which killed 16, said an incorrect cable was being used for the funicular, but that it was not yet possible to know how that figured in the crash. By Jason ...