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United Arab Emirates

Passengers dramatic escape as plane bursts into flames at Dubai airport

A plane crash-landed at Dubai Airport on Wednesday, immediately bursting into flames.

United Arab Emirates

Firefighter dies while battling blaze after Emirates airline crash-lands in Dubai

A firefighter has died while fighting a blaze after an Emirates Airlines plane burst into flames after it crash-landed at Dubai International Airport.

Italy

Italy crash: Andria station master 'allowed crash train to pass'

Italy’s president Mattarella met the families of the victims of Tuesday’s train crash in Southern italy at a hospital in Bari.

Italy

Southern Italy train crash possibly caused by "human error"

Station masters relied on communications by telephone to advise on trains on the remote single line track on Southern Italy and no automated brake or signaling system was in place.

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Business Series

Tesla questioned further over Autopilot after fatal crash

US safety regulators want detailed information from electric car maker Tesla about the design, operation and testing of its Autopilot technology following a fatal crash in May.

Italy

Italian PM calls for full investigation into head-on rail collision

Italian PM calls for full investigation into train disaster Death toll rises to at least 27 “Human error a factor” Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has demanded a full investigation into Tuesday

Italy

'We must find out cause' of fatal Italy train collision, says Renzi

Italian authorities say 20 people died and dozens were injured when two passenger trains collided head on in the Puglia region in the south of the country.

Italy

Twenty dead and more injured as passenger trains collide in southern Italy

Reports from Italy say at least 20 people have died, and more have been injured, after two passenger trains collided in the Puglia region in the south of the…

Italy

Twenty dead after head on train collision in southern Italy

Reports from Italy say at least 20 people have died, and more have been injured, after two passenger trains collided in the Puglia region in the south of the…

Spain

One of Spain's top bullfighters is gored to death live on TV

Top matador Victor Barrio was pierced in the chest live on TV and in front of hundreds of spectators, including his wife, at a tournament in the eastern region of Aragon.

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Spain: four injured in fourth San Fermin bull-run

Four runners were gored in the fourth bull-run of Pamplona’s San Fermin festival in northern Spain.

World News

One man gored to death in Spanish bull running festival

A Spaniard died and two other men, including a Japanese, were gored in bull-runs in Spain on Saturday, as the San Fermin festival in the northern town of Pamplona entered its third…

United Kingdom

Five crushed to death, one hospitalised, following Birmingham wall collapse

Five workers have been crushed to death in Nechells, central Birmingham.

United Kingdom

Five men die in industrial accident in Britain

Five men have died after an industrial accident at a recycling depot in Nechells, an area of Britain’s second-biggest city Birmingham, the local West Midlands Police force said on…

Egypt

Black box confirms smoke on board doomed EgyptAir flight

Air crash investigators say a black box recording from the doomed EgyptAir flight confirms smoke on board the aircraft.

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Singapore: wings on fire

A Singapore Airlines plane caught fire following its departure from Singapore’s Changi airport after suffering technical problems.

Russia

Russia: at least 13 children die in summer boat trip

In Russia, at least thirteen children have died after boats capsized in stormy weather on a lake in the northwest of the country.

Russia

Over a dozen children killed in Russian boating accident

In Russia at least 13 children and an adult are reported to have died after boats capsized in stormy weather on a lake in the northwest of the country.

USA

Florida police find body of boy grabbed by alligator

Police divers have recovered the body of the a 2-year-old boy who was seized by an alligator near a Disney World Hotel in Florida.

Germany

One killed in road bridge collapse in Bavaria

At least one construction worker has been confirmed dead after a road bridge which was undergoing renovation collapsed in central Germany.