Two people were found dead in the path of the a wildfire raging across northern California, as firefighters raced to contain the blaze amid searing temperatures and impending thunderstorms. The McKinney fire in northern California, which has grown into California’s largest…
At least eight people have died in floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains in India's remote northeast region, officials said. Several railway stations were not working because of floods, said Nazreen Ahmed, a senior administrative official in Assam's Dima…
Eight people have died, including six children, after a fire tore through scores of homes near the Philippines capital Manila, local officials have said. The blaze, which started around 05:00 local time on Monday (22:00 BST on Sunday), also destroyed…
A major fire in a scrap warehouse killed at least 11 people and injured four others Wednesday in India's southern Hyderabad city, police and officials said. Police said 15 laborers were sleeping in the shop when fire caused by a short-circuit broke out,…
Parts of the Australian city of Brisbane are under water after heavy rain brought record flooding to some east coast areas and killed eight people. The flooding in the city of 2.6 million people and its surrounding area is the…
At least 38 people have died and scores more have been injured in a fire which tore through a prison in Burundi. Vice-President Prosper Bazombanza told reporters the blaze hit an overcrowded facility in the capital Gitega, with at least…
Six people are dead after a sightseeing plane crashed in southeast Alaska on Thursday, according to the US Coast Guard. "An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka located the wreckage at 2:37 p.m. and lowered two…
A fire which enveloped a Covid isolation unit in southern Iraq killed 64 people, a medical source told AFP in an updated toll on Tuesday. "Sixty-four (bodies) were retrieved and 39 identified and handed over to their families," the source…
People in Niger are mourning 20 pre-school children – aged between three and five – trapped in the flames of a horrific fire at a school on the outskirts of the country’s capital, Niamey. The young victims perished on Tuesday…
At least 32 people have been killed and more than 60 injured in a train crash in southern Egypt, the country's railway authority says. Two carriages were derailed and overturned when two passenger trains collided in the province of…