Eight U.S. troops killed in Taliban attack in Afghanistan
Eight U.S. soldiers were killed in an attack by the radical Islamic Taliban group in eastern Afghanistan, the press office of the NATO-led coalition forces said on Sunday.
Philippines braces for new storm as toll hits 240
Philippine authorities braced on Tuesday for another storm as the death toll from rain and floods from a weekend typhoon, now bearing down on Vietnam, rose to 240.
Steamboat capsizes on Siberian lake, victims possible
Rescuers are searching a north Siberian lake after a storm caused a steamboat to capsize, five people are reported to have been rescued, local prosecutors said on Wednesday.
Seven people killed in Iranian military plane crash
At least seven people were killed in a crash of an Iranian military airplane outside Tehran, the national television has reported.
At least five killed in U.S. floods
At least five people, including a two-year-old child, have been killed and four are listed as missing as a result of floods in southwestern U.S., CNN said on Tuesday.
Eight missing in Kazakh bridge accident
Eight people are missing after a section of an under-construction bridge collapsed in western Kazakhstan early on Saturday, an emergencies services official said.
One dead, five injured in Ingushetia police checkpoint attack
A suspected suicide bomber died and five people were injured during an attack on a police checkpoint in Russia`s North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia on Friday, a police source told RIA Novosti.
Three police seriously injured in Chechnya blast
Three police officers were hospitalized with serious injuries on Saturday after an explosion in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, a police spokesman told RIA Novosti.
Bus falls into river in northern Nepal, killing 20
At least 11 people died and some 20 are missing after a bus plunged into a river in northern Nepal on Thursday, local media reported.
Suicide bomber attacks Kabul airport base
A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle outside a NATO military base at Kabul`s main airport on Tuesday killing at least two civilians, in the biggest attack in the Afghan capital since last month`s presidential election.
Powerful earthquake strikes Georgia, shocks reported in S.Ossetia
A powerful earthquake measuring 8 on the Richter scale struck northern Georgia early on Tuesday, a local meteorology center official said.
West Siberian police officer charged with heroin possession
A police officer in west Siberia has been charged with possessing 1 kilogram of heroin, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
Eight killed as van smashes into parked truck in Peru
At least eight people died on Monday as a van collided with a truck in the southeast of Peru, a local radio station reported on Tuesday.
At least 35 dead in central China mine blast
At least 35 people were killed, with 44 still missing, in an explosion at a mine in central China`s Henan province, regional media said on Tuesday.
Fuel tanker blast in Afghanistan leaves scores dead
Scores of people were killed in north Afghanistan on Friday when a fuel tanker exploded after it was hit by what is believed to have been a NATO airstrike, regional media said.
Chechnya bomb blast injures three soldiers
At least three soldiers have been injured in a blast in the volatile southern Russian republic of Chechnya, local police said on Tuesday.
Young German mother kills herself, child
A twenty seven-year-old woman threw her two children off a balcony and then jumped herself in the German city of Pforzheim on Thursday, national media said.
Six injured by suicide bombers in Chechnya
Three police officers and three civilians were injured early on Friday when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in Chechen town of Shali, a Chechen police spokesman said.
Four Russian tourists missing in Egypt
Four Russian tourists went missing in Egypt`s Red Sea resort of Marsa Alam on Monday while scuba diving, a local tourism official said.
Death toll in Siberia hydropower plant accident rises to 12
The death toll in an accident at Russia`s largest hydropower plant has risen to 12 people, with 64 still unaccounted for, the country`s emergencies minister said on Tuesday.
Eighth body found from NY midair collision
Divers in New York`s Hudson River on Monday found the body of the eighth victim of a midair collision of a helicopter and small plane that killed nine people, but they were unable to dislodge it from the underwater wreckage, authorities said.
Body found in airliner`s wheel well in Russia`s Far East
The body of an unidentified man was discovered in the wheel well of an A320 passenger plane, a spokesman for the Far East Investigative Committee told RIA Novosti on Monday.
Over 90 feared dead in Tonga ferry disaster
The number of people missing and feared drowned in the Tonga ferry disaster has risen to 93, local police said on Sunday.
Over 40 people killed in Iraq terror attacks
Two truck bombings left at least 25 people dead in north Iraq`s Mosul, and another 16 people were killed by two car bombs in Baghdad on Monday, international media reported.
Typhoon Etau kills 12 in western Japan
At least 12 people have died in torrential rains and floods in western Japan which was hit by typhoon Etau, the Kyodo News agency said on Monday citing local police.