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Pakistan

Cave-in kills 23 miners in Pakistan

At least 23 victims were all reportedly from same village.

06/05/2018

India

Deadly superstorms in northern India shatter homes and lives

Severe dust and thunderstorms lashing northern India have killed over 120 people and left a trail of destruction.

03/05/2018

Switzerland

Swiss Alps: Six die in bad weather

Four skiers and two climbers perished in separate incidents at the end of a tragic winter season in the mountains.

01/05/2018

Canada

Disbelief in Toronto after van leaves trail of death in city centre

Canadians are shocked by the worst act of violence in the country in years.

24/04/2018

USA

Mini-Me actor Verne Troyer dies at 49

The U.S. actor had been admitted to hospital earlier this month

22/04/2018

USA

Mass inspections ordered after Southwest explosion

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has ordered a round of inspections to be carried out on jet engines after investigators said a broken fan blade triggered a fatal engine explosion on a Southwest Airlines flight on Tuesday.

19/04/2018

USA

Southwest flight's terror in the skies: How it happened

While hurtling 32,000 feet over Philadelphia, one of the Boeing’s twin engines exploded, releasing shrapnel that peppered the fuselage.

18/04/2018

World News

Film director Milos Forman dies

Czech filmmaker Milos Forman has died aged 86. His American movies include "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Amadeus" which won a deluge of Academy Awards, including best director Oscars.

14/04/2018

Malta

Two killed and six critical after tour bus hits tree branches in Malta

At least 50 people, including 12 children, were among the injured on Monday.

10/04/2018

USA

Helicopter crash leaves four dead

Four crew members are presumed dead after a marine corps helicopter crashed on a training mission.

04/04/2018

Russia

Boy, 11, learns of family’s death in Kemerovo blaze

A young boy that was caught up in a shopping mall fire that killed at least 64 people has learned that his parents and sister are among the dead.

01/04/2018

France

Plane crashes on motorway near Lyon killing two

Pilot of light aircraft appeared to lose control before hitting an overhead signaling gantry according to eyewitnesses.

01/04/2018

United Kingdom

Thousands witness Hawking's funeral procession in Cambridge

The 76-year-old renowned physicist, who had motor neurone disease, died at his Cambridge home on March 14.

31/03/2018

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Hundreds attend funeral for three killed in Kemerovo mall fire

Hundreds of mourners attended a funeral service on Wednesday for two school-age children and their grandmother killed in the deadly shopping mall fire in Kemerovo.

28/03/2018

Croatia

Croatian footballer dies during match after ball hits chest

Bruno Boban, 25, collapsed and lost consciousness after a ball hit his chest at close range during a Third Division clash. Minutes later he was pronounced dead.

26/03/2018

Russia

Reports: 37 feared dead, dozens missing in Siberia mall shopping fire

Up to 37 people have been killed and dozens remained unaccounted for after a fire broke out at a shopping mall in Siberia on Sunday (March 25), reports say.

25/03/2018

United Kingdom

Stephen Hawking: admired by scientists and the public

Euronews went to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to ask people how they'll remember the British physicist, who passed away at the age of 76.

14/03/2018

United Kingdom

The universe comes together to pay tribute to Stephen Hawking

Renowned British Physicist Stephen Hawking has died at the age of 76.

14/03/2018

World News

The Bookkeeper of Auschwitz - Oskar Groening - dies

Oskar Groening was sentenced to four years for his role as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 of the Auschwitz concentration camp's roughly 1 million victims.

13/03/2018

USA

Helicopter crashes into New York's East River

All five passengers died in a crash witnesses say appeared to be an attempted emergency landing.

12/03/2018