An oil tanker exploded near Sierra Leone's capital, killing at least 92 people and severely injuring dozens of others after large crowds gathered to collect leaking fuel, officials and witnesses said Saturday.
At least eight people have died and scores of others injured in what authorities described as a "mass casualty" incident on the opening night of a popular music festival here in Texas attended by some 50,000 fans of American rapper Travis Scott.
Delhi airport incident: AI Express issues show cause notice to pilot
Over half a dozen passenger trains cancelled for three days due to elephant movements
Woman cop shoots, injures rape accused trying to flee during crime reconstruction in Gujarat
BJP slams Gehlot's 'Save Aravalli' campaign, assures mining will not expand under new definition
Teen killed in alleged honour killing over inter-community relationship, brother, his friend arrest
Bus helper held for stealing USD 1,600 from Iranian woman's purse in Delhi; money recovered
Hike in train fares: 1 paisa/km beyond 215 km for ordinary class, 2 paise/km for other classes
Centre seeks report on death of elephants on railway tracks in Assam's Hojai: Bhupender Yadav
NGT pulls up officials over illegal quarrying near Navi Mumbai cancer hospital
Belagavi: UT Khader lauds Munawwar Zama's Four-Pillar Education Model
PM unveils Rs 10,601-cr fertiliser plant in Assam, unit to be commissioned by 2030
Wild fox falls into tank in Thane, rescued after one-hour operation
Pfizer Inc. said Friday that its experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% in high-risk adults, as the drugmaker joins the race to bring the first easy-to-use medication against the coronavirus to the U.S. market.
Russia, Iran and almost all central Asian countries have confirmed their participation at a regional security dialogue on Afghanistan to be hosted by India on November 10, official sources said on Friday.
Top officials at the World Health Organization said Thursday that Europe has seen a more than 50% jump in coronavirus cases in the last month, making it the epicenter of the pandemic despite an ample supply of vaccines.
Geneva: A 53-country region in Europe and Central Asia faces the real threat of a resurgence of the coronavirus pandemic in the coming weeks or already is experiencing a new wave of infections, the head of the World Health Organisation's regional office said Thursday.
Canberra: Police expected to charge a local man Thursday with abducting a 4-year-old girl from her family's camping tent 18 days before police smashed into a locked house and rescued her in an outcome celebrated around Australia.
Facebook says it has removed a post by Ethiopia's prime minister that urged citizens to rise up and bury the rival Tigray forces who now threaten the capital as the country's war reaches the one-year mark.
UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled a new 5-pound commemorative coin celebrating the life and legacy of Mahatma Gandhi to mark Diwali on Thursday.
China has been taking "incremental and tactical actions" to press its claims at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India and has unsuccessfully sought to prevent New Delhi from deepening its relationship with the US during and subsequent to the standoff, the Pentagon has said in a major report on China's military modernisation.
