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Twenty people were injured when a Hong Kong ferry crashed into a seawall off the coast of the gambling enclave of Macau Friday, officials said, the latest accident to hit the cities' busy waterways.

• 13 июня 2014, 10:35

A construction crane toppled late Wednesday in a Swiss town, injuring several people, two of them critically, police and media reports said.

• 12 июня 2014, 13:11

A young Frenchman has fallen to his death at a national park on the outskirts of Sydney, police confirmed.

• 09 июня 2014, 12:42

A new Indian minister was killed Tuesday in a car accident in the capital just days after being sworn into government, officials said.

• 03 июня 2014, 12:50

A 998-tonne oil tanker was listing off the Japanese coast Thursday after a large explosion and subsequent fire that sent towering columns of acrid smoke into the sky.

• 29 мая 2014, 13:50

The death toll from a train crash in northern India rose to 23 after more bodies were recovered from inside mangled passenger carriages, officials said.

• 28 мая 2014, 01:25

At least seven people were killed and two dozen injured in a fire at a bus terminal near Seoul on Monday, emergency officials said.

• 26 мая 2014, 13:00

A crocodile was injured in Russia when an accountant weighing 120 kilogrammes (260 pounds) fell on him during a bus trip through the arctic north, local media reported.

• 22 мая 2014, 19:15

Twenty people were killed and 17 injured when the bus they were traveling in overturned Sunday in northeastern Brazil, officials said.

• 19 мая 2014, 12:12

Thirty-one children were burned to death when a bus they were traveling in caught fire in northern Colombia on Sunday, the Red Cross said.

• 19 мая 2014, 11:00

8 people have been injured in an explosion at the Flour and Combine Fodder Factory in Kazakhstan's Semey.

• 19 мая 2014, 03:46

The operator of a Turkish mine where an explosion has claimed more than 280 lives said on Friday the disaster was not due to negligence on its part.

• 16 мая 2014, 15:44

Divers recovered 10 more bodies from a sunken ferry in Bangladesh Friday, bringing the death toll to 22, with scores more feared to have perished, police and officials said.

• 16 мая 2014, 11:32

A 15-month-old US boy has survived an 11-story fall from a balcony at his parents' apartment in Minneapolis, Minnesota, local media reported.

• 15 мая 2014, 11:24

At least 201 people were killed and hundreds more remained trapped underground after an explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey, the government said Wednesday, warning that rescue efforts faced a race against time.

• 14 мая 2014, 10:19

The Italian navy on Tuesday said 17 bodies had been recovered and 206 people rescued by patrol boats and merchant ships from a migrant shipwreck in international waters between Libya and Italy.

• 14 мая 2014, 09:57

A windstorm has ripped off roofs, uprooted trees and even killed a person in Kazakhstan's southern city of Shymkent on May 12.

• 13 мая 2014, 17:49

At least 36 immigrants died and 42 are reported missing after a makeshift boat was wrecked off Libya's coast, a naval spokesman told AFP.

• 12 мая 2014, 14:26

A diver died Tuesday while working at a ferry disaster site in South Korea as further details emerged about how deception and negligence contributed to the April 16 tragedy.

• 06 мая 2014, 14:28

Labor Inspection has named safety violations as the cause of the accident at Korkem construction site.

• 05 мая 2014, 23:14