Crane accident cuts power to one-third of Vietnam
One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation’s power grid.
One mistake by a clumsy crane operator caused a 10-hour blackout over about a third of Vietnam, exposing the fragility of the nation’s power grid.
A soldier was killed and several others wounded when a military truck and a passenger bus collided in Ilocos Norte before dawn Thursday, police said.
A 7-year-old boy was killed after he was hit and dragged by a Philippine National Railway train in Sta. Cruz, Manila.
Six people were injured on the ground after they were hit by debris from the upper floor of a hotel in the Ortigas Business District in Pasig City Wednesday night, according to authorities.
Rescuers struggled Wednesday to reach 25 workers trapped underground at a US-owned mine in remote eastern Indonesia after a tunnel caved in, with four others confirmed dead.
A Hungarian man who sawed off one of his arms by accident below the elbow managed to drive 15 kilometers (10 miles) to hospital in Austria clutching the severed limb, police said Sunday.
A French honeymooner was attacked and killed by a shark on Wednesday while he was surfing not far from the beach on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion, authorities said.
Nine people were feared dead on Wednesday after a container ship crashed in Italy’s busiest port of Genoa, bringing down a 50-meter (164-foot) control tower in an accident that revived memories of last year’s Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster.
The mayor of the town of San Roque in Northern Samar fractured his skull but his two companions suffered only minor injuries when they jumped off a helicopter that developed engine trouble while taking off from the beach house of a congressman in the municipality of Laoang, 50 kilometers east of here, on Tuesday.
A Russian helicopter carrying nine people, including senior rescue service officials, has crashed in the Irkutsk region of southern Siberia, an official said Monday.
Belgian authorities on Saturday evacuated nearly 300 people from their homes after several cars of a train carrying chemicals derailed, causing a major fire near the city of Gent.
A 24-year-old worker died allegedly due to gas poisoning while inside a gold mine tunnel in Pantukan, Compostela Valley Tuesday evening, the police said.
A local candidate in Pampanga and a member of his staff were injured when his sports utility vehicle rammed a concrete barrier in Quezon City early Wednesday morning.
