MOUNT VICTORIA: Firefighters were racing to tame an enormous blaze in southeastern Australia Monday with officials warning it could merge with others to create a "mega-fire" if weather conditions worsen. Crews have been battling fires that flared in high winds and searing heat across the state of...
21 October 2013, 5:14 CairoChurch Gun Attack: Girl, 8, ShotDeadTweet Three people, including an eight-year-old child, have been killed in a drive-by shooting at a wedding outside a church in Cairo. Masked gunmen on motorbikes shot randomly at guests as they left the Coptic Christian church in the...
Highly radioactive water overflowed barriers into Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station after its operatorTepco underestimated how much rain would fall and failed to pump it out quickly enough. Tepco has been battling to contain radioactive water at the nuclear...
BEIRUT — As diplomats haggled about the prospect of Syrian peace talks, dozens were killed and many others injured Sunday when a massive car bomb exploded outside the central Syrian city of Hama. Sunday’s blast was the latest in a series of bombings and fierce clashes that have continued to ravage...
Gaza, October 20: The armed wing of Islamic Hamas movement has admitted being behind the recently discovered tunnel leading from Gaza into Israel. "Al-Qassam Brigades dug the tunnel," reported Xinhua citing Abu Obaida, a spokesperson for the military wing of Hamas. "The Brigades work in its full...
BAGHDAD, Oct 20: A suicide bomber driving a minibus blew himself up outside a cafe in the Iraqi capital on Sunday, killing at least 38 people, police and medics said. At least 12 people were killed in a spate of suicide bomb attacks on security personnel and government buildings earlier in the day,...
