A wildfire has burned down about 100 homes and evacuated hundreds of residents in the U.S. state of Texas as of Monday afternoon, local media reported.
The troops of India and Pakistan posted on line-of-control (LoC) in Kashmir shot at each other's positions, officials said Sunday.
Around 24 soldiers and firemen were wounded after a powerful explosion rocked the armory of the Philippine Army in the Philippine capital region of Metro Manila on Wednesday morning.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea set off its live-fire drill Tuesday afternoon near the disputed inter-Korean border islands, about a month after conducting the same drill.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and South Korea on Monday exchanged fire into the sea across the western maritime border, Yonhap news agency reported.
No one was killed in a massive fire that devoured Lao capital Vientiane's biggest marketplace Thong Khan Kham, a police officer said on Thursday.
The fire that consumed Lao capital Vientiane's biggest marketplace Thong Khan Kham appears to be under control as firefighters continued to extinguish the blaze, Xinhua reporters judge from the scene at 11:40 p.m. local time.
A fatal fire that broke out on Friday in a village in east China's Shandong Province was the result of arson, local police said Tuesday.
Four people were killed in a hospital fire in Huangshi City in central China's Hubei Province Sunday, local authorities told Xinhua.
The submarine mishap last week off Mumbai coast, which led to the resignation of then Indian Navy chief D.K. Joshi, was the result of a fire caused by glitches in the cables of the vessel, defense sources said Monday.
Five people were killed and 30 others injured in a fire that broke out in a bus on Thursday afternoon in southwest China's Guizhou Province, local firefighters told Xinhua.
At least nine people, most of them firefighters, were killed and another seven injured on Wednesday while extinguishing a warehouse fire in the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, local authorities said.
China's fire department has warned the public to only buy fireworks from authorized sellers and set them off in specified places, ahead of the annual Spring Festival firework feast.
Three luxury yachts have been destroyed in an early morning fire at a Gold Coast marina, local media reported on Wednesday.
The Indian army on Sunday said Pakistan army violated cease-fire on line-of-control (LoC) in Kashmir.
With new heatwave conditions arriving in southeast Australia, South Australian (SA) fire department has declared fire bans across the state, forcing 11 schools to be closed on Tuesday.
With new heatwave conditions arriving in southeast Australia, South Australian (SA) fire department has declared fire bans across the state, forcing 11 schools to be closed on Tuesday.
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