A makeshift ferry overcrowded with residents reportedly fleeing a cholera outbreak sank off Mozambique’s northern coast, killing at least 98 people including children, local media said Monday. The ferry with an estimated 130 people aboard sank Sunday after it departed the southeastern
This is the moment heroic SWAT members climbed onto a roof of a three-story property in an effort to rescue the hostages of a suspected triple killer through a second-story window. Andre Gordon, 26, barricaded himself in the property in Trenton, New
Germany has become the world’s third-largest economy despite facing a number of financial woes in recent months. The country leapfrogged Japan which saw its economy contract in the last quarter of 2023 leading to it falling behind the Europeans into fourth. Changes
An officer critically wounded in a roadside bombing in northwestern Pakistan targeting police protecting polio vaccination workers has died. Three officers remain in critical condition after the bombing in the district of Mamund, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban. Pakistan and
The death toll from a mining tragedy last week in South Africa that involved an elevator has risen to 13 people after a worker died at a hospital, the mine operator said Monday. Impala Platinum said that the worker died Sunday from
The death toll from strong earthquakes in western Afghanistan, one of the deadliest earthquakes to shake the country in two decades, has risen to more than 2,000, a Taliban government spokesman said Sunday. A 6.3 magnitude earthquake followed by strong aftershocks killed
A fire, which erupted at a nine-story apartment building in the capital of Hanoi, Vietnam, earlier this week, has caused 56 deaths. The cause of the blaze, which wiped out entire families, has not yet been released. Witnesses say they saw people
The toll from a suicide bombing at a weekend rally held by a pro-Taliban Islamist party in Pakistan has risen to 63, marking one of the nation’s most devastating attacks in recent years. Following the attack, 123 individuals were treated for injuries
First responder recounts ‘bizarre’ southern Utah plane crash Meet the single mum of seven whose close brush with death inspired her to climb seven mountains and smash a Guinness World Record. Utah mum Jenn Drummond, 43, is lucky to be alive. She
On Wednesday, a landslide caused by India’s torrential rains swept dozens of people. The landslide buried 17 houses and caused at least 21 deaths, but many others are still feared trapped beneath the piles of debris. Several of the 75 people rescued