Accident

An explosion struck a nightclub in the capital of Azerbaijan and set off a fire early Sunday, killing one person and injuring 31, officials said. The explosion at the LocationBaku club was believed to have been caused by a gas...

A deadly tornado tore through homes and knocked out power in the New Orleans area on Tuesday night, killing one person and injuring multiple others, authorities said. The twister was one of more than 60 tornadoes reported in five southeastern...

A China Eastern Airlines plane carrying 133 passengers has had an "accident" and caused a fire in mountains in Guangxi, state television has reported. The crash involved a Boeing 737 travelling from Kunming to Guangzhou. The number of casualties is not...

Illinois was battered with a winter storm that dropped more than six inches of snow in many areas as temperatures dropped to freezing this week. A pile-up involving more than 100 vehicles closed a portion of an interstate highway in...

A large fire broke out on Sunday afternoon near the German ambassador’s residence and Paris’s Musee d'Orsay, which houses some of the 19th century French art's most famous works. A video published by the BFMTV broadcaster showed firefighters scrambling to...

A production and storage vessel which can hold up to two million barrels of oil has exploded off the coast of Nigeria with 10 crew members on board. The FPSO Trinity Spirit, with can process up to 22,000 barrels of...

Seventeen people were killed when a small military plane crashed into a residential area in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. The crash created a fireball that lit up the night sky and terrified residents after the plane came down in...

Three people are dead and four others are missing following a float plane crash in Newfoundland and Labrador. Air Saguenay confirmed to CTV News that seven people were believed to have been aboard the plane when it went down in...

Three people were gored and a further two people suffered head trauma during the first day of Spain's best-known bull-running festival in the northern town of Pamplona on Sunday, the Red Cross said. One man was loaded into an ambulance...

A bus has crashed killing at least 29 people that were travelling along an expressway in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The crash happened early on Monday near the city of Agra, 336km (208 miles) from the state...