Disasters / Accidents

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Papua New Guinea Deputy Prime Minister Sam Basil was killed in a road accident on Wednesday night,...

DAKAR (Reuters) - A small passenger plane carrying 11 people crashed in a forest in central Cameroon on Wednesday and...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Following a series of worrying incidents in Mexico City's airspace, the Mexican government held meetings with...

By Dave Graham and Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An auditor's third report on a deadly Mexico City metro...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican official overseeing an investigation of an incident in which two aircraft nearly crashed on...

By Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban rescue workers combed through vast piles of rubble from the Hotel Saratoga in...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A train has derailed south of Austria's capital Vienna, Austrian news agency APA reported on Monday. Newspaper...

MADRID (Reuters) - Two Spanish coast guard helicopters rescued 13 migrants in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands on...

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Russian climber Pavel Kostrikin died at Camp I of Mount Everest, the first reported...

By Marc Frank HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban rescue workers on Saturday picked through rubble for bodies and possible survivors after...

(Reuters) - At least eight people died in Siberia on Saturday as fires ripped through hundreds of buildings in several...

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - An Indian climber died during a summit push on Mount Kanchenjunga, the world's third...

MADRID (Reuters) -Two people died and at least 18 were injured in a strong explosion that rocked a four-storey building...

HAVANA (Reuters) - Four people have been killed and various people have been injured following an explosion at a hotel...

(Reuters) - Fifty-three people died when a housing block collapsed in the Chinese city of Changsha last week, state broadcaster...

KABUL (Reuters) - Heavy rain and flooding has killed 22 people, destroyed hundreds of homes and damaged crops in Afghanistan,...

KYIV (Reuters) - Twenty-six people were killed in a collision in the Rivne region of western Ukraine involving a bus,...

By Thiam Ndiaga OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's government has launched a judicial investigation into a flood at a zinc...

PARIS (Reuters) - Two people died and another was missing on Sunday after heavy rainfall caused flooding on the French...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Indian agrochemicals manufacturer UPL Ltd has applied for permission to flush water contaminated by a toxic pesticides...