Some nine people, including one woman, were charred to death in a major fire which broke out on an express train in the western Indian state of Maharashtra in the early hours of Wednesday, a senior police officer said.
Fewer traffic accidents were reported in China in 2013 compared with the previous year, with no reports of extremely fatal traffic accidents, vice minister of public security Huang Ming said on Sunday.
The Netherlands reported a total of 8,400 incidents during the New Year celebrations, up 23 percent compared to last year, officials said Wednesday.
At least 10 people were killed and another five were seriously injured Monday in Bolivia when a minibus collided with a trailer, media reported.
China's environmental watchdog on Monday said it plans to punish 805 companies for violating environmental protection regulations.
Two people were killed and six others were wounded following a shooting outside several bars in the U.S. state of Louisiana Thursday, local media reported.
A powerful blast hit a security building in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura early Tuesday, killing at least eight people and injuring 85 others, semi-official Ahramonline reported.
Two people were killed on Monday as rainstorm swept through Britain before Christmas, according to local sources.
Thirty nine foreigners, including 5 from Chinese mainland and 32 from China's Taiwan arrested Sunday evening with a huge quantity of illegal VoIP(Voiceover Internet Protocol) are being investigated, according to the director of the country's Anti-crime elite force(RAB)'s media wing.
At least 14 passengers were killed early Sunday morning when a bus fell into a ravine in Sao Lourenco da Serra municipality, the Federal Highway Police said.
More than 100 police officers were injured in a clash Saturday with protesters opposed to the eviction of a left-wing cultural center in the northern German port city of Hamburg, local media reported.
The United States on Sunday evacuated its citizens from Bor, the capital of South Sudan's Jonglei state engulfed in armed conflicts, after a failed attempt a day earlier.
Some 88 people were injured, including 7 serious cases, after part of the roof in London's Apollo Theatre collapsed on Thursday.
At least six people were injured on Wednesday when mortars fired from Afghan side of the border landed in Pakistani border areas of South Waziristan, tribesmen in the region said.
Four militants were killed and 23 others detained in military operations across Afghanistan since early Tuesday, the country's Interior Ministry said on Wednesday morning.
Four militants were killed and 23 others detained in military operations across Afghanistan since early Tuesday, the country's Interior Ministry said on Wednesday morning.
Ten militants were killed in an Afghan army operation in the country's eastern province of Ghazni overnight, said an army source on Monday.
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