KYIV, Ukraine: Ukraine on Wednesday accused Russia of carrying out rocket strikes that killed 14 civilians in areas near a nuclear power plant, as the G7 warned that Russian control of the facility endangers the region. Overnight strikes in the Dnipropetrovsk region in central Ukraine killed 13 people and injured
LOS ANGELES: A court case brought by Kobe Bryant’s widow over graphic photographs taken by first responders at the site of the helicopter crash that killed him got under way in the United States on Wednesday. The basketball superstar and his teenage daughter were among nine people who died when
SEOUL: Subway stations and major roads were underwater in the South Korean capital Seoul after record-breaking rains caused severe flooding, with at least seven people dead and seven more missing, officials said Tuesday. Dramatic images shared on social media late Monday showed people wading through waist-deep water, metro stations overflowing,
MEXICO CITY: Rescuers battled Wednesday to free around nine workers believed to be trapped in a coal mine in northern Mexico, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said. According to the president, military personnel and rescue dogs were deployed to the scene of the accident in the state of Coahuila. “A
SYDNEY: A traveller arriving in Australia from Indonesia has been hit with an almost US$2,000 fine after border guards detected two McMuffins and a ham croissant secretly squirrelled away in their backpack. Biosecurity detector dog Zinta sniffed out the egg-and-meat contraband at Darwin Airport prompting an eye-watering fine, officials said
JACKSON, United States: Kentucky’s governor predicted bodies will continue to be found for weeks as the death toll from devastating flooding rose Sunday to 28 and rescuers embarked on a long and gruelling effort to locate victims. Some areas in the mountainous region are still inaccessible following the flooding in
AHMEDABAD, India: At least 42 people have died and nearly 100 others have been hospitalised in western India after drinking toxic alcohol, police said on Thursday, with authorities ordering a crackdown on bootleggers. Dozens of people became ill earlier this week after drinking methanol — a poisonous form of alcohol
BEIJING: A manhunt was underway in southwest China Thursday with police offering a $15,000 bounty for a suspect in a gun attack that killed three people and injured two others, security officials said. Gun violence is rare in China, where the regulation on firearms is among the strictest in the
BEIJING: Asia’s wealthiest woman lost more than half her fortune over the past year as China’s real estate sector was rocked by a cash crunch, a billionaire index showed Thursday. Yang Huiyan, a majority shareholder in Chinese property giant Country Garden, saw her net worth plunge by more than 52
TOKYO: Local authorities hunting for a gang of monkeys who attacked and wounded nearly 50 people in western Japan have caught and killed one of the marauding primates, an official said Wednesday. The male simian was seized while roaming the grounds of a high school in Yamaguchi city — but
