At lease six people have been killed and six others were missing in a ferry capsizing incident in the Chindwin River in Myanmar in the weekend, the authorities confirmed Monday.
Eight people died and 18 others are missing after heavy rain in southwest China's Sichuan Province since Sunday.
The death toll from last week's massive blasts in north China's port city of Tianjin has risen to 114 after rescuers retrieved two more bodies in the debris, the municipal publicity department said Monday.
A search team has spotted the wreckage of a missing passenger plane with 54 people aboard near the city of Oksibil in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua, a spokesman of Indonesian Transport Ministry said on Monday.
The investigators and experts participating in the identification of the probable missing MH370 wreckage arrived Wednesday afternoon in a military laboratory in Toulouse, according to Xinhua journalists on site.
Paris Deputy Prosecutor Serge Mackowiak will hold in Paris a press conference following the ongoing identification of probable MH370 wreckage in Balma, suburbs of Toulouse, said Wednesday a statement of the office of the Paris prosecutor.
U.S. investigators have concluded that the piece of aircraft debris found Wednesday near a French island in the southern Indian Ocean came from a Boeing 777, raising the odds that it belongs to the mysteriously vanished MH370, U.S. media reported.
More than 600 minors have been missing in Italy since 2009, figures of Italian children's charity Telefono Azzurro (Blue Telephone) showed on Monday, the International Missing Children's Day.
Eleven U.S. soldiers were missing after an army helicopter went down during a training session on Tuesday night in Florida, officials said Wednesday.
At least two Indian Army personnel have been killed and another missing in an avalanche in the northern state of Uttarakhand, a senior police official said Tuesday.
Chinese maritime search and rescue force is ready to leave for relevant waters for searching missing AirAsia flight QZ8501, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday.
No significant result has been found in the second-day search for the missing AirAsia QZ8501 Flight on Monday, said spokesperson Sutono for Indonesia's center of command for search operations.
China on Monday announced that it will send aircraft and vessel to join the search and rescue work for missing AirAsia flight QZ8501.
The air searching for a missing AirAsia plane suspended on Monday evening due to darkness in the waters near the Bangka Belitung islands and will resume early Monday morning, the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency said.
A South Korean fishing ship sank in the Bering Sea Monday, with at least one person dead and 52 missing, Yonhap News Agency reported citing the fisheries ministry.
Powerful Typhoon Phanfone which made landfall in central Japan Monday has left at least 4 people dead and 5 missing, local media reported Tuesday.
Algeria Thursday confirmed that the missing flight AH 5017 of Air Algeria with 116 people on board crashed in Mali, local media reported.