http://www.mail.com/int/subjects/8168-explosions.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/int/subjects/8168-explosions.html http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2095934-honeybees-trained-croatia-to-find-land-mines.html ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined. Now, unlikely heroes may be coming to the rescue to prevent similar tragedies: sugar-craving honeybees. Croatian researchers a... Sun, 19 May 2013 11:33:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2095934-honeybees-trained-croatia-to-find-land-mines.html 2013-05-19T11:33:43Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2095270-blasts-rock-libyas-capital-eastern-city.html TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libyan officials say explosions went off in the capital Tripoli and the restive eastern city of Benghazi, but no casualties were reported. A security official says one bombing targeted an abandoned church in Benghazi that had been previously damaged by fire. The explosion damaged only a car parked outside. The official says two other... Sat, 18 May 2013 18:28:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2095270-blasts-rock-libyas-capital-eastern-city.html 2013-05-18T18:28:22Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2093272-official-10-killed-explosion-turkey.html ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Officials say a container of fuel being smuggled into Turkey from Syria has exploded, killing 10 people. The governor's office in Hatay province said Friday's blast occurred in Tunisma village when the smuggler set the tank on fire after realizing Turkish security forces had rushed to the scene. Hatay is the Turkish border province w... Fri, 17 May 2013 15:47:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/2093272-official-10-killed-explosion-turkey.html 2013-05-17T15:47:12Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2073742-police-confirm-blast-prague-caused-gas-leak.html PRAGUE (AP) — Investigators have confirmed that the blast last week that ripped open a central Prague office building and injured some 40 people was caused by a gas leak. Police spokesman Jan Danek says the gas leaked from an underground pipeline located several meters from the damaged building. Danek didn't give further details Thursday. He says the inve... Thu, 09 May 2013 12:06:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2073742-police-confirm-blast-prague-caused-gas-leak.html 2013-05-09T12:06:30Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2071550-explosion-oil-pipeline-turkey-injures-1.html ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's state television says a large explosion and fire at an oil pipeline in southeastern Turkey have injured one person. The report says the explosion was accidental and not the result of an attack. TRT television says Wednesday's accident was caused by an excavator who struck the pipeline while digging an irrigation canal just o... Wed, 08 May 2013 15:29:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2071550-explosion-oil-pipeline-turkey-injures-1.html 2013-05-08T15:29:47Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2069174-22-dead-gas-tanker-explosion-mexico-city.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — A natural gas tanker truck lost control, hit a center divider and exploded on a highway lined by homes in the Mexico City suburb of Ecatepec early Tuesday, killing at least 22 people and injuring nearly three dozen, authorities said. Officials at the Citizen Safety Department of Mexico State, which surrounds the capital, did not rule ou... Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2069174-22-dead-gas-tanker-explosion-mexico-city.html 2013-05-08T04:00:33Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2050420-syrian-tv-reports-blast-damascus-school.html DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syrian state-run TV says an explosion has taken place near a school in the capital, Damascus. The TV says the blast struck on Monday in the capital's western neighborhood of Mazzeh. State-run news agency said there are casualties. Damascus has been hit by a string of explosions in recent months that has left hundreds of people dead ... Mon, 29 Apr 2013 07:23:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2050420-syrian-tv-reports-blast-damascus-school.html 2013-04-29T07:23:33Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2049546-3-killed-french-building-collapse-blast.html REIMS, France (AP) — A possible gas explosion ripped off the side of a five-story residential building in France's Champagne country on Sunday, killing at least three people and injuring 14 others, officials said. More than 100 rescue workers, firefighters, sniffer-dog squads and bomb and gas experts were deployed to the gutted building in a subsidized ho... Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:04:19 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2049546-3-killed-french-building-collapse-blast.html 2013-04-28T19:04:19Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2042200-czechs-to-send-funds-to-blast-hit-texas-town.html PRAGUE (AP) — The Czech Republic plans to donate 4 million koruna (some $200,000) to help the Texas town of West recover from a devastating fertilizer plant explosion. The government decided to the provide aid in solidarity because a significant number of people in the town of 2,700 have Czech roots. The blast damaged numerous homes in the town. The Forei... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:23:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/us/2042200-czechs-to-send-funds-to-blast-hit-texas-town.html 2013-04-24T18:23:37Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2041292-grenade-wounds-7-palestinian-kids-lebanon.html BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanese security officials say a grenade left behind from the 2007 fighting in a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon has exploded, wounding seven schoolchildren. The officials say the children found the grenade on Wednesday and were playing with it when it exploded in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp near the northern city of Tripoli... Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:54:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/2041292-grenade-wounds-7-palestinian-kids-lebanon.html 2013-04-24T11:54:15Z http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2030596-official-toll-unknown-residents-lost.html WEST, Texas (AP) — The neighborhood surrounding a Texas fertilizer plant that erupted in a thunderous explosion is gone, and the residents here know they've lost more than the buildings that went up in flames. Though investigators have not released a firm death toll, the names of the dead were becoming known in the town of 2,800, even if they hadn't been ... Fri, 19 Apr 2013 09:24:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/business/economy/2030596-official-toll-unknown-residents-lost.html 2013-04-19T09:24:56Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2022732-pope-grieved-deaths-injuries-boston-blast.html VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis says he is "deeply grieved by the news of the loss of life and grave injuries" caused by two bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon. Francis expressed his condolences in a message Tuesday addressed to Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley, a good friend of Francis' from the pope's time as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The exp... Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:12:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2022732-pope-grieved-deaths-injuries-boston-blast.html 2013-04-16T12:12:27Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2009466-bp-executive-safety-was-top-priority-blast.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A BP executive who oversaw the company's Gulf of Mexico operations testified Tuesday that he led a push to improve safety when he started the job more than two years before an April 2010 rig explosion killed 11 workers and led to America's worst offshore oil spill. Neil Shaw, a witness for BP at a trial over the deadly Deepwater Horizon... Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:16:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/2009466-bp-executive-safety-was-top-priority-blast.html 2013-04-10T00:16:33Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1953054-worker-rig-was-bustling-bp-well-blowout.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A worker who survived the deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon testified Wednesday that a flurry of activity on the drilling rig hindered his ability to monitor BP's well for signs of trouble before the April 2010 blowout. Joseph Keith, the second blast survivor to testify in person at a federal trial over the disaster, said he nev... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:32:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1953054-worker-rig-was-bustling-bp-well-blowout.html 2013-03-13T22:32:39Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1944258-report-blast-injures-people-south-iran.html TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian semi-official news agency is reporting that an explosion has injured several people in a port in the south of the country. The late Saturday report by ILNA did not specify the cause of the blast. It says it also damaged several cars and shattered windows of nearby buildings including a hotel in Imam Khomeini port, some 1,000... Sun, 10 Mar 2013 11:57:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1944258-report-blast-injures-people-south-iran.html 2013-03-10T11:57:07Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1930404-bp-executive-defends-report-gulf-oil-spill.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The BP executive who led the company's probe of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion denied Monday that his investigators narrowly focused on rig workers' actions to spare onshore engineers and managers from blame for the disaster. At the start of the second week of a trial over the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a lawyer for rig ... Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:43:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1930404-bp-executive-defends-report-gulf-oil-spill.html 2013-03-05T00:43:40Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1900912-czech-police-suspect-victim-set-deadly-blast.html PRAGUE (AP) — Czech police suspect that a man who died in a powerful gas blast that killed four others deliberately set off the explosion. The blast destroyed a three-story apartment building Sunday in the town of Frenstat pod Radhostem. Three children were among the dead, while 11 people were wounded. Police gave few details about the suspect, but local ... Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:00:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1900912-czech-police-suspect-victim-set-deadly-blast.html 2013-02-19T16:00:13Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1898816-death-toll-rises-to-5-czech-gas-explosion.html PRAGUE (AP) — Officials say the death toll after a powerful gas explosion that destroyed a three-story apartment building in eastern Czech Republic has risen to five. Firefighters spokesman Petr Kudela said Monday rescuers working with sniffer dogs found three dead children and one more body burned beyond recognition. Another body was recovered Sunday. Of... Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:50:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1898816-death-toll-rises-to-5-czech-gas-explosion.html 2013-02-18T09:50:25Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1897558-explosion-kills-1-czech-republic.html PRAGUE (AP) — A powerful explosion in a three-story apartment building in the Czech Republic killed at least one resident and left five people missing on Sunday, officials said. Lukas Humpl, a spokesman for the local rescue workers, said 11 people, including three children, were also injured and being treated at hospitals in the east of the republic. Off... Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:48:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1897558-explosion-kills-1-czech-republic.html 2013-02-17T16:48:21Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1889496-albanian-court-cuts-sentences-deadly-blast.html TIRANA, Albania (AP) — An Albanian appeals court on Wednesday reduced sentences for several top defendants convicted in a deadly ammunition factory blast and acquitted one defendant. The decision was met with dismay by relatives of the deceased. The explosion at Gerdec near Tirana in March 2008 killed 26 people, wounded 300 others, destroyed or damaged 5,... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:07:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1889496-albanian-court-cuts-sentences-deadly-blast.html 2013-02-13T20:07:58Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1863862-illegal-fireworks-blamed-deadly-blast-china.html BEIJING (AP) — A truck that exploded and caused an elevated stretch of highway to collapse in central China, killing 10 people, was loaded with holiday fireworks that were illegally produced and transported, authorities said Saturday. Local authorities have shut down the company that made the fireworks, Hongsheng Fireworks Manufacturing Co. Ltd., and deta... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 12:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1863862-illegal-fireworks-blamed-deadly-blast-china.html 2013-02-02T12:14:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1860976-4-detained-deadly-highway-collapse-china.html BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities have detained four people, state media said Saturday, a day after at least 11 people died when a truck loaded with fireworks for Lunar New Year celebration exploded, collapsing an elevated portion of highway in central China. The accident sent vehicles plummeting 30 meters (about 100 feet) to the ground, and state-run Ch... Sat, 02 Feb 2013 07:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1860976-4-detained-deadly-highway-collapse-china.html 2013-02-02T07:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1861042-33-die-mexico-oil-company-office-building-blast.html MEXICO CITY (AP) — A blast that collapsed the lower floors of a building in the headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company, crushing at least 33 people beneath tons of rubble and injuring 121, is being looked at as an accident although all lines of investigation remain open, the head of Petroleos Mexicanos said Friday. As hundreds of emergency worke... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:28:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1861042-33-die-mexico-oil-company-office-building-blast.html 2013-02-01T23:28:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1852874-tremors-gases-will-best-proof-nk-nuke-test.html SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — With North Korea appearing set to detonate an atomic device, the U.N. agency that detected two previous tests says it is prepared to confirm an explosion when it takes place. But experts say it might be difficult to establish whether the blast is nuclear in nature. The best indication of a test will be seismic tremors and gases r... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:31:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1852874-tremors-gases-will-best-proof-nk-nuke-test.html 2013-01-30T03:31:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1852944-judge-oks-4b-bp-oil-spill-criminal-settlement.html NEW ORLEANS (AP) — BP PLC closed the book on the Justice Department's criminal probe of its role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Gulf oil spill Tuesday, when a U.S. judge agreed to let the London-based oil giant plead guilty to manslaughter charges for the deaths of 11 rig workers and pay a record $4 billion in penalties. What the plea deal approved... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:54:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/scitech/news/1852944-judge-oks-4b-bp-oil-spill-criminal-settlement.html 2013-01-29T20:54:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1837628-zimbabwe-big-blast-sorcerers-house-kills-5.html HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Police in Zimbabwe say they are investigating a massive explosion at a tribal sorcerer's house outside the capital, Harare. Police officials said Tuesday the blast killed five people. The sorcerer, often known in the West as a witchdoctor, and a man seeking to improve his failing finances, were among the dead, witnesses said. ... Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:03:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1837628-zimbabwe-big-blast-sorcerers-house-kills-5.html 2013-01-22T14:03:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1833738-13-suspected-al-qaida-men-killed-yemen.html SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A Yemen security official says an explosion in the province of Bayda has killed at least 13 suspected al-Qaida militants. The official in Bayda's capital city of Radda says the explosion went off in a house owned by a known al-Qaida operative, Ahmed Abdullah Deif-Allah Al-Zahab. It appeared to be an accident. Residents were barred Sund... Sun, 20 Jan 2013 20:13:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/world/1833738-13-suspected-al-qaida-men-killed-yemen.html 2013-01-20T20:13:00Z