The armies of India and Pakistan Sunday fired at each other's positions on line-of-control (LoC) in Kashmir, officials said.
An aging circuit has been identified as the cause of a fatal bus fire on Monday morning in Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to local authorities.
The Indonesian police have already turned over the result of their investigation to the Environment Ministry pointing to two Malaysian-owned firms as having started the forest fire in Sumatra, triggering heavy smog in neighboring Singapore and Malaysia.
Rushing 10 kilometers in 10 minutes on a motorbike, Li Yanping did not get to see his daughter who died in a poultry plant fire on Monday, which has killed 119 people.
At least 45 people have sought medical assistance after a fire broke out in a Moscow metro on Wednesday.
More than 24 hours after a deadly fire broke out in a poultry processing plant in northeast China's Jilin Province, rescuers are still racing against time in the hope of finding survivors.
A fire engulfed a slaughterhouse in northeast China's Jilin Province on Monday, leaving at least 112 people dead and 54 others injured.
A fire that ripped through a large grain storage center in northeastern China's Heilongjiang Province on Friday was caused by a short circuit, local fire authorities confirmed on Monday.
Firefighters in the U.S. state of New Mexico on Saturday continued to fight two growing wildfires that have consumed thousands of acres of land and forced evacuations of dozens of homes, officials said.
An aged-care nurse has pleaded guilty to murdering eleven elderly patients under his care by setting fire to a Sydney nursing home in November 2011.
Australia, April 26 (Xinhua) -- A man and his wife have been killed in a house fire in north Brisbane in Australia's Queensland, the state police confirmed on Friday.
A big fire broke out in a mental hospital in Russia's Moscow region early Friday, killing at least 36 people, the Russian emergency department said.
Firefighters located 165 people, including 150 survivors, within 72 hours after a 7.0-magnitude quake hit southwest China on Saturday, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said Tuesday.
Authorities are gravely concerned about toxic gases released following Wednesday's huge fertilizer factory blast here, which is believed to have killed dozens and injured more than 170.
A total of 13 children out of 78 were killed in a fire that broke out with a mosque school in Yangon's Botataung township early Tuesday, local authorities confirmed.
Firefighters on Friday are continuing their efforts to contain a mountain fire that has been raging for more than 30 hours in Dali, a mountain resort area in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
In the aftermath of a nightclub fire which killed 231 people in southern Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff reminded mayors from all over the country on Monday about the responsibilities of government officials with the people.