Authorities in Cuba decided to extend shutdowns of workplaces and schools through Sunday after the country’s electrical grid collapsed four times last week due to the failure of the country’s largest power plant. The …
Five Russian mountaineers who appeared to have slipped and fallen on the world’s seventh-highest peak have died, an expedition organizer in Nepal said. The Russians were climbing 8,167-meters high Mount Dhaulagiri during …
Greek authorities have started collecting hundreds of thousands of dead fish that poured into a tourist port in the city of Volos this week after being …
Greek firefighters battled to extinguish the remnants of a wildfire near Athens that killed a woman, torched buildings, devoured woodland and forced thousands of people to flee their homes. Most of the fronts had eased three days after …
Greek authorities arrested 13 yacht crew members and passengers yesterday after fireworks launched from the vessel allegedly sparked a forest fire on the Greek island of Hydra. Firefighters got the blaze, which burned part of the …
A passenger train collided head-on with a freight train in the Czech Republic, killing at least four people and injuring 27 others, officials said …
The life of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who has survived an assassination attempt, is out of danger, Slovak Deputy Prime Minister Tomas Taraba said. According to him, the surgery was successful. Fico's condition is …
A presidential motorcade and a police jeep collided in Türkiye
Protesters hurled soup at the “Mona Lisa” painting in Paris on January 28, but it was protected from damage by its glass casing. The environmental group Riposte Alimentaire (“Food Response”) said two protesters …
A driver was taken into custody Monday night after crashing into a White House exterior gate, according to a U.S. Secret Service spokesman. …
The grave of German ex-chancellor Helmut Schmidt has been desecrated in the Hamburg cemetery where he lies buried, police said. …
A six-story corner of a Bronx apartment building collapsed in New York, leaving apartments exposed like a stack of shelves. Firefighters said they had searched the 12-foot-tall pile of debris left by the collapse of a …
The U.S. military terminated a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile due to an anomaly discovered during a test launch from the Vandenberg Air Base in California, the Air Force Global Strike Command said in a statement. …
At least seven people were killed this week in a slew of crashes along Interstate 55 in Louisiana that involved at least 158 vehicles, state police say. More than 25 people were taken to hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to …
Two tankers carrying oil products and liquefied natural gas collided in the Suez Canal, disrupting traffic through the global waterway, Egyptian …
At least 18 people died in western Mexico when a passenger bus plunged off a highway into a ravine on August 3, state officials said, adding the passengers …
A soldier in Congo opened fire on family members and others who had buried his son before he could arrive home to attend the ceremony, killing 13 people, including 10 children, officials said. The attack late on Saturday left the …
A week of rioting across France has already caused more than €1 billion in damage to the country's businesses. The …
Two trains collided head-on in Greece killing at least 32 people and injuring 85 late on Tuesday night, the fire brigade said. An intercity passenger train travelling from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki collided at high …
Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed condolences to Indian President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in connection with the tragic consequences of the bridge collapse in the state of Gujarat, the Kremlin said on …
