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USA

US: almost 30 injured as truck ploughs into Mardi Gras crowd

Nearly 30 people have been injured after a pickup truck ploughed into a crowd watching the main Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans.

26/02/2017

Netherlands

Flybe technical issues: one flight evacuated, another turns back

A Flybe flight carrying 59 passengers from Edinburgh to Amsterdam Schiphol has had to be evacuated after a landing gear reportedly failed to deploy.

23/02/2017

USA

Watch: Model rescues New York teens from frozen Central Park pond

An Australian model, Ethan Turnbull, and his friend rushed to the aid of a group of young people after they fell through the ice on a pond in Central Park, New…

22/02/2017

Brazil

Distressing footage shows fast-moving tyre floor pedestrian in Brazil

This is the moment CCTV captured a man being knocked to the ground by a stray tyre.

22/02/2017

Belgium

Train derailment in Belgium kills one person, injures dozens more

A train has derailed shortly after leaving the Belgian city of Leuven, killing at least one person and injuring dozens more.

18/02/2017

China

[Watch] Mother and child escape falling car

A mother and child were knocked off a sloping road in China on Sunday (February 12) by a reversing jeep that went out of control, a surveillance video shows.

16/02/2017

Hungary

Four dead in Hungary in fog pile-up

Fatal foggy pile-up in Hungary

15/02/2017

World News

Watch: Biker's last-second leap from path of onrushing train

A trail biker had a near-death experience when he was forced to leap out of the path of an oncoming train into a nearby creek.

15/02/2017

USA

California dam evacuees are told they can go home

An evacuation order for around 180,000 people who live below the highest dam in the US has been lifted.

15/02/2017

Luxembourg

Train ignores stop sign in Luxembourg, crashes into another, killing one driver

Two trains have collided after one ignored a stop sign in Luxembourg near the French border, killing one person and injuring six.

14/02/2017

Luxembourg

Fatal train collision in Luxembourg near French border

One person has died and six people have been injured following the collision between a goods and passenger train in Luxembourg near the French border.

14/02/2017

France

France: Three family members killed in Alpine avalanche

Three members of the same family and their snowboarding instructor were killed in an Alpine avalanche on Monday – the worst such accident since the start of the ski-ing season in…

14/02/2017

Taiwan

Taiwan bus crash leaves 32 dead

At least 32 people were killed when a tour bus flipped over on a highway in Taiwan on Monday night.

13/02/2017

USA

Truck lands on police car in high winds

11/02/2017

World News

Polish prime minister in car crash

Polish prime minister Beata Szydlo has suffered bruising in a car crash in the south of the country.

11/02/2017

Angola

17 dead in Angola stadium stampede

At least 17 people have died and many more have been injured in a stampede at a football match in Angola.

11/02/2017

World News

Flamanville nuclear power plant blast: no radioactive leak, say officials

Authorities in northern France say there is no risk of contamination after an explosion occured at the Flamanville nuclear power plant.

09/02/2017

France

Explosion at Flamanville nuclear power plant, several people injured

An explosion has erupted at EDF’s Flamanville nuclear power plant in northern France.

09/02/2017

Malaysia

Malaysia: Six missing after boat carrying Chinese tourists sinks

Malaysia on Monday broadened its search for six people still missing after a boat carrying Chinese tourists capsized at the weekend.

30/01/2017

USA

NASA remembers Challenger and Apollo 1 disasters

31-years ago the Challenger Space shuttle broke apart little more than a minute after taking off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

28/01/2017