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'Beautiful Mind' Nobel Prize winner John Nash killed in a car crash

US Nobel Prize winner John Nash has died in car crash along with his wife Alicia. The mathematician whose life story was turned into the

Norway

Norwegian cruise ship runs aground off Bermuda

A Norwegian Cruise Line ship has run aground on a reef as it was leaving Bermuda.The Norwegian Dawn was returning to Boston with 2675 passengers and

Azerbaijan

Residential building inferno kills 16 in Baku

At least 16 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a fire that ripped through a residential building in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku. Emergency

USA

[Watch] Train hits bus on level crossing in Altlanta, USA

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Russia

Russian rocket plunges to earth minutes after launch

A Russian Proton M rocket has crashed in Siberia just minutes after take off. The Mexican satellite it was carrying is missing, presumed lost.

USA

US: engineer of derailed train can't remember what happened

The man at the helm of a train that derailed in the US says he cannot remember what happened. Rescuers pulled an eighth body out of the wreckage on

USA

Investigation into cause of deadly Philadelphia train crash

At least seven people are now known to have died and scores of others injured in the derailment

USA

At least five dead and dozens hurt in Philadelphia train crash

An investigation has been launched in the US after an Amtrak passenger train with more than 200 passengers on board derailed in north Philadelphia on Tuesday night.

Pakistan

Ambassadors of Norway and Philippines killed in helicopter crash in Pakistan

World News

Rogue Russian spacecraft falling back to earth faster than expected

Progress is falling back to earth faster than expected. The unmanned Russian spacecraft, which failed to reach the International Space Station with

France

Germanwings co-pilot 'practised fatal descent' on earlier flight'

The findings come from French investigators who said Lubitz reduced altitude on a flight from Dusseldorf to Barcelona several times.

Republic of North Macedonia

Fourteen migrants hit by train and killed in former Yugloslav republic of Macedonia

Fourteen migrants have been hit by a train and killed in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia. It happened near the city of Veles, as the group

Spain

Pollution alert after a fuel-laden trawler sinks off Canary Islands

A Russian fishing trawler full of fuel has sunk off the Canary Islands. The Oleg Naydenov caught fire over the weekend while in Las Palmas port when

China

[WATCH] Two dead as climbing frame collapses in China

Two people were killed and another 15 injured when a net climbing frame structure collapsed under the weight of visitors trying to view a flower gala

Japan

Asiana Airlines plane skids off Japanese runway

Japan

Japan: passenger planes skids off runway at Hiroshima airport

Around 20 passengers have suffered minor injuries after a planned skidded off the runway at Hiroshima airport in western Japan. The Airbus A320

Turkey

Turkey: Company executives go on trial over Soma mine disaster

Protesters are calling for harsh sentences, as mining company executives go on trial over Turkey’s worst ever industrial accident

China

PX chemical fire reignites at Zhangzhou plant

One of three containers that caught fire at a chemical plant in China’s eastern city of Zhangzhou burst into flames again on Tuesday evening. The

Russia

Russia says 'no threat' to environment as nuclear submarine fire put out

Firefighters have reportedly put out a blaze on a Russian nuclear submarine which was undergoing repairs at a northern shipyard. The state-owned

Russia

Russian nuclear submarine catches fire while undergoing repairs

A Russian nuclear submarine reportedly caught fire in a shipyard in the north of the country on Tuesday. News agencies say the vessel was undergoing