An early morning train crash in southern India left of two dozen people dead, officials confirm. Railways ministry spokesman Anil Kumar Saxena said the crash involved a Hampi Express passenger train and a goods train in Penukonda, Andhra Pradesh ...
Rescues teams began removing miners from a platinum mine in southern Zimbabwe Tuesday following an overnight fire that forced the men to seek shelter in refuge bays. Implats Platinum and Aquarius Platinum Ltd., the companies that own the Mimosa m ...
A member of the Zetas drug cartel has been arrested for his involvement in the dumping of 49 decapitated and dismembered bodies in northern Mexico last week. The military identified the suspect as Daniel de Jesus Elizondo Ramirez, also known as E ...
Mount Everest claimed three more lives over the weekend as an estimated 150 climbers rushed to take advantage of the first favorable weather conditions of the climbing season. Gyanendra Shrestha, an official with the Nepal Mountaineering Departme ...
Authorities in Thailand arrested a British citizen Friday after receiving a tip about a website selling human fetuses for black magic rituals. Police say 28-year-old Chow Hok Kuen, who is of Taiwanese origin, was taken into custody at a Bangkok h ...
A midair collision involving two Pakistani Air Force planes left four people dead and 11 others injured, authorities in the village of Rakashai confirm. The collision happened Thursday morning during routine military training exercises near PAF B ...
A child actress and her mother were among those killed Monday in a plane crash in a mountainous area of Nepal, officials in India confirm. The actress has been identified as 14-year-old Taruni Sachdev. Sachdev has appeared in numerous commercials ...
A failed assassination attempt on a former Colombian minister Tuesday morning left at least five people dead and nineteen others injured. President Juan Manuel Santos said a bomb detonated on a crowded street in the capital, Bogota, was meant to ...
At least 49 decapitated and dismembered bodies were found early Sunday morning on a highway in northern Mexico. A message written on a wall near where the bodies were dumped referenced the Zetas drug cartel. Authorities believe the killings are c ...
Nepalese authorities confirm a small airplane crashed near an airport in a mountainous area of the country on Monday, killing 15 passengers. The Dornier 228, operated by Agni Air, was carrying 19 passengers and 3 crew members from Pokhara to Joms ...
The bodies of 12 passengers on board the Russian passenger jet that crashed into the side of a volcano in Indonesia have been found, officials with Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency confirmed.
The dismembered and decapitated bodies of 18 people were found Wednesday in western Mexico. Authorities believe the gruesome crime is the work of the Zetas drug cartel and may have been retaliation against a rival drug gang. The Zetas cartel left ...
Indonesian officials reported Thursday rescue teams have located the wreckage of a Russian passenger jet that disappeared from radar screens during its second demonstration flight. Debris from the Sukhoi Superjet 100 and the bodies of several pas ...
The undercover agent who foiled al Qaeda’s bomb plot posed as the suicide attacker willing to carry out the plan, according to new reports. The agent, who worked closely with the CIA and Saudi Arabia’s intelligence agency, transported the bomb ou ...
A new Russian passenger jet disappeared in Indonesia Wednesday during its second demonstration flight and is believed to have crashed on Mount Salak, a volcano south of Jakarta. Local authorities say the Sukhoi Superjet 100 took off from the Hali ...
Officials confirm FBI experts in Quantico, Virginia are examining an underwear bomb seized from al-Qaeda militants in Yemen last month. The bomb was intended to be detonated on a U.S.-bound plane sometime this month, but the plot was thwarted by ...
An American development consultant abducted from his home in Lahore, Pakistan nine months ago pleads with President Obama to meet demands set by al Qaeda in a short video posted on Islamist websites Sunday. Warren Weinstein, 70, appears calm and ...
Three soldiers were killed Monday in an explosion in eastern Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force confirmed. ISAF officials did not release the nationalities of the dead, but several Western officials speaking anonymo ...
A suicide bomber detonated explosives near a crowded market in a tribal region of Pakistan Friday, killing nearly two dozen people. No group has claimed responsibility, but authorities believe the Taliban is likely behind the attack.
Police in Mexico say three of the four dismembered bodies found Thursday in Veracruz state are those of local crime reporters Guillermo Luna Varela, Gabriel Huge and Esteban Rodríguez Rodríguez. The fourth body is that of Varela’s girlfriend, Ira ...