A cargo ship slammed into the dock in the Italian city of Genoa late Tuesday, toppling a 167 foot tall maritime traffic control tower. Most of the mangled tower landed in the harbor.
Mount Mayon’s eruption early Tuesday killed four German tourists and a Filipino guide. Local authorities said the Germans were part of a larger group that was hiking on Mount Mayon when the eruption occurred around 8 a.m. local time
A civilian cargo plane crashed in Afghanistan Monday, killing all 7 Americans on board. The plane, run by U.S.-based National Air Cargo, was en route to Dubai, United Arab Emirates with a load of military cargo when it went down shortly after 3 p ...
Two people remain missing off the coast of Peru following a hot air balloon crash over the weekend. Officials say the balloon went down Sunday in the Pacific Ocean near Canete, a coastal area about 60 miles south of the capital of Lima, with six ...
Rescue teams in Bangladesh discovered dozens of people alive in rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza building on Friday, just one day before officials plan to change the rescue effort to a recovery operation. An official said 50 people were found t ...
Israel confirmed it shot down a drone Thursday after the unmanned aircraft entered Israeli airspace. Although immediate suspicion was directed towards the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon, Israeli officials admit the military has not yet deter ...
The death toll in the Bangladesh building collapse rose to 244 Thursday night as rescuers continue to search through rubble for survivors. National news agency Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha reports the leader of the search, Maj. Gen. Abul Hassan Sa ...
A building collapse in central Bangladesh Wednesday morning killed nearly 100 people and injured hundreds of others. The death toll is expected to climb.
Eastern Afghanistan was rocked by a moderate earthquake Wednesday before 2 p.m. The epicenter of the 5.6 magnitude quake was located about 7 miles from Mehtar Lam, the capital of Laghman province, and about 15 miles northwest of Jalalabad. It was ...
A western Baghdad coffee shop popular among young Iraqis was the target of a bombing Thursday night. More than two dozen people were killed.
A powerful earthquake rocked Iran and Pakistan Tuesday afternoon, killing several people and leaving more than a dozen others injured. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck around 3:15 p.m. local time at a depth of 9 miles near the city of Saravan ...
An inmate has vanished after staging a brazen prison break over the weekend in north France. Authorities confirm Redoine Faid is currently on the run following an escape from Lille-Sequedin penitentiary in Lille on Saturday. The escape prompted I ...
Afghan National Army officers tasked with maintaining security in a mountain district of eastern Afghanistan were overrun by Taliban insurgents early Friday morning. U.S. and Afghan military officials confirm 13 Afghan soldiers were killed in the ...
A bomb close to detonation was found Friday morning on a high-speed train in Taiwan, prompting the quick evacuation of hundreds of passengers. The explosive device was safely disarmed and seized by authorities for further investigation. Taiwan Hi ...
Fourteen people died Wednesday in two separate shootings in western Mexico, authorities confirmed. Both shootings occurred in Michoacan, a state mostly controlled by the Knights Templar drug cartel. It is unclear if Knights Templar was responsibl ...
Authorities in Iran say the death toll in Tuesday’s earthquake has risen from 4 to 30. Some 800 others were injured. No other details have been released.
A gunman is in critical condition in central Serbia following a shooting rampage that left 13 people dead. According to reports, 60-year-old Ljubisa Bogdanovic shot and killed his mother and son just before dawn Tuesday in the town of Velika Ivan ...
Southern Iran was rocked by a powerful earthquake Tuesday afternoon, sparking fears that the nuclear plant near the quake’s epicenter may have been damage. Atomstroyexport, the Russian company that built the plant in Bushehr, was quick to report ...
Britain’s first ever female prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, has died. The 87-year-old, who reportedly suffered from Alzheimer’s in recent years, passed away Monday morning after having a stroke. Her children, Mark and Carol Thatcher, announced ...