5 dead, 2 missing in Turkish mine accident
An official says a gas leak inside a coal mine in northern Turkey has killed five workers and injured one. Two other miners are missing and feared ...
Police investigate fire that killed 2 children
Police are investigating the cause of a blaze that killed two young children and injured their mother in the southern Dutch city of Maastricht.
8 injured in train accident in eastern Turkey
The state-run news agency says a passenger train has collided with a freight train in eastern Turkey, injuring six passengers and two crew members.
US family builds Haiti orphanage for daughter
An American family who lost their daughter in a massive earthquake in Haiti three years ago has finished building an orphanage in her memory.

Legkov and Kowalczyk win Tour de Ski titles
Alexander Legkov won his first Tour de Ski title Sunday by surging away from his rivals on the final climb up Mount Cermis, where six of his fellow ...
Zimbabwe bus crash kills 8
Zimbabwean police say eight people died in a bus crash that has brought the traffic accident death toll during the holiday period to the highest on ...

Avalanche in Alps kill 2 Italian skiers
Rescuers have found the bodies of two Italian skiers who were killed by an avalanche in Italy's Alps. The Italian news agency ANSA said the rescuers ...

Missoni scion on plane missing in Venezuela
Rescue crews used boats and aircraft on Saturday to search for a small plane that disappeared off Venezuela carrying the CEO of Italy's iconic Missoni ...

6 Russians die in snowmobile crash in Italy
Six Russians were killed and two seriously injured when the snowmobile and sled they were riding veered off an Italian Alpine ski slope at night, ...
Family of 5 dies in plane crash near French Alps
A Moroccan family of five returning home died Saturday when their plane crashed shortly after takeoff from an airport near the French Alps, officials ...

Syrian forces bombard rebel areas near capital
Syrian government warplanes and artillery pounded restive suburbs of Damascus on Friday and anti-regime activists said a car bomb targeted an ...

Transocean's $1.4B oil spill deal will help Gulf
A $1.4 billion settlement between the Justice Department and Deepwater Horizon rig owner Transocean Ltd. will pump hundreds of millions of dollars ...

Nigeria airline in June crash resumes flights
The Nigerian airline involved in a June crash that killed at least 163 people resumed domestic flights Thursday, even though officials acknowledge ...

Superstorm Sandy tops 2012 insurance claims
Natural disasters cost insurers $65 billion last year, with the United States accounting for nine-tenths of the bill and Superstorm Sandy prompting ...
Fire in poor French apartment complex kills 5
A fire in an apartment complex in an impoverished Paris suburb has killed five people, including two children. Officials say 18 people were hurt.
France counts 1,193 cars torched on New Year's Eve
Hundreds of empty, parked cars go up in flames in France each New Year's Eve, set afire by young revelers, a much lamented tradition that remained ...
Township fire in South Africa kills 3
South African media say three people died and 4,000 were displaced when fires swept through shacks in poor settlements in the Cape Town area on New ...

International envoy warns of failed state in Syria
The international envoy seeking to end Syria's civil war warned Sunday that the failure of the government and the rebels to pursue a political ...

Black boxes examined in fatal Russian plane crash
Investigators on Sunday examined flight recorders and other evidence to try to determine the cause of the airliner crash in Moscow that killed five ...