Explosion in central Russia: nobody injured
There has been an explosion near an apartment building in Russia`s city of Voronezh. The blast took place in a rubbish container in the backyard. Police and emergencies ministry workers are investigating.
Bangladesh cyclone toll nears 1000, hundreds missing
Military ships and helicopters on Saturday were trying to reach thousands of survivors of a super cyclone that killed at least 900 people and pummeled the impoverished country with mighty winds and waves.
Oil spill endangers birds in Black Sea
Birds are continuing to die in southern Russia following an oil spill in the strait that links the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov, a bird protection organization said on Friday.
Powerful cyclone kills 242 in Bangladesh
A cyclone killed 242 people and left much of southern Bangladesh cut off from the rest of the country before heading inland and losing strength Friday, officials said.
Bomb exploded in the east of Moscow: 1 injured
A woman was wounded in an explosion that occurred near a cafe in the east of Moscow, a police source said.
Big earthquake kills two in Chile
A powerful earthquake hit mineral-rich northern Chile on Wednesday, killing at least two people, injuring more than 100 and halting output at some of the world`s largest copper mines.
Fuel pollution in Kerch Strait 50 times above acceptable level
The concentration of oil products in a strait linking the Black Sea and Sea of Azov is 50 times above maximum acceptable levels after a tanker split open during Sunday`s storm, Russian experts said on Wednesday.
Russia tackles oil spill after storm wreaks havoc
Russian rescue helicopters searched for five missing seamen on Monday after a storm in the northern mouth of the Black Sea, while a slick of oil from a sunken tanker began washing onto beaches.
Police assault in South Russia: 8 militants killed
At least eight militants were killed during a police assault on a militant hideout in Daghestan, a republic in Russia`s troubled North Caucasus, a local police source said Monday.
Storm sinks a tanker and a freighter in Russia
Emergency services have found three bodies and continue the search for five sailors missing from one of four ships which sank during a powerful storm between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea at the weekend.
FirÕ at Moscow apartment block: 3 died, 5 injured
Three people have been killed and five injured in a fire at a 12-storey apartment building in south-east Moscow.
Child killed in anti-terror operation in southern Russia yesterday
People in Russia`s southern republic of Ingushetia are to hold a rally against security forces later in the month. This follows a fatal shoot-out on Friday which left a 6-year-old child dead.
China coal mine gas leak kills 32
Thirty-two miners were killed in a coal mine gas leak in southwest China`s Guizhou Province and three others are missing, state media reported on Friday.
Gas explosion in south Moscow: 3 dead, 1 injured
At least three people have died and one has been injured in a gas explosion in a 12-storey apartment block in south Moscow, rescue services said on Friday.
School shooter kills 8, self in Finland
An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at his high school in this placid town in southern Finland on Wednesday, killing seven other students and the principal before mortally wounding himself in a rampage that stunned a nation where gun crime is rare.
More than a million affected by floods in southern Mexico
Rescuers Friday battled to reach people stranded on rooftops as more than one million struggled in the worst floods on record in Mexico`s southern Tabasco state and President Felipe Calderon canceled a foreign visit to help.
Tropical Storm Noel buffets south of US
Tropical Storm Noel buffeted south Florida with high surf and winds as it swirled slowly toward the Bahamas Thursday after triggering mudslides and floods in the Caribbean that killed at least 81 people.
4 Turkish national shot down in Moscow market: 1 killed
Three unidentified assailants attacked four Turkish nationals at a Moscow market, killing one and wounding three, a local law enforcement source said on Tuesday.
Dominican storm kills at least 20 people
Tropical Storm Noel lashed the Dominican Republic with heavy rains Monday, causing flooding and mudslides that killed at least 20 people and left another 20 missing, officials said.
Pakistan suicide attack kills 7 near Musharraf`s HQ
A suicide attack killed at least seven people, including the bomber, less than a kilometer from Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf`s army headquarters in Rawalpindi on Tuesday, police said.
Homemade bomb disabled in Moscow
Bomb squad experts have disabled an explosive device near a sports club in west Moscow, a law enforcement source said.
Rock slide at a coal mine in Ukraine: 4 killed, 3 injured
Four miners were killed and three others injured during a rock slide at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian emergencies ministry said on Monday.
Suicide bomber kills 28 at Iraqi police base
A suicide bomber on a bicycle killed 28 policemen at their base in the volatile Iraqi province of Diyala on Monday, police said, in one of the deadliest strikes on Iraq`s security forces in months.
With fires waning, California assesses the damage
Four burned bodies found in the path of California`s fierce wildfires raised the death toll to at least 12 people, even as firefighters won the upper hand and officials turned on Friday toward assessing the damage.
Opposition journalist is shot in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz reporter Alisher Saipov was killed last night in Osh, southern Kyrgyzstan.