A 52-year-old American national was killed when he slipped and fell under a moving train at Chengannur railway station in the district, police said today.

John O'Connell, who hailed from Texas, was

A Boeing 767 with 220 passengers on board on Tuesday made an emergency landing on its belly at Warsaw international airport after its landing gear failed, an airline spokesman said.

Fire and ambulanc

A gas explosion at a coalmine in central China has killed 28 miners, the official Xinhua news agency reported Sunday, the latest in a series of accidents to hit the country's mining industry.

One per

Over 50 people were feared dead after a wire rope suspension bridge over the swift Kameng river collapsed this evening at Seppa in Arunachal Pradesh’s East Kameng district.

The hanging bridge at the

A small plane crash-landed on a road, hit a car and burst into flames after take-off in Vancouver, sending all nine aboard as well as two in the car to hospital, some with critical injuries, authoriti

Eight persons, mostly women, were killed and many others injured when a four-storey building housing nearly a hundred families collapsed at Bhiwandi town here.

The building at the Gautam Compound Na

At least 27 people were killed when a bus fell into a 1,000 foot deep gorge in Himachal Pradesh's Bilaspur district, officials said Tuesday.

The accident happened on Monday near Danoh, 150 km from he

US truck driver Louis Holst has never been scared of bees, but he's rethinking his next long-haul load a day after being swarmed by 25 million of the stinging insects.

Holst and his wife, Tammie, pic

The Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) on Tuesday said there has been no radioactive leakage from a container carrying uranium peroxide which met with an accident in Andhra Pradesh.

In a statement her

In a freak accident, a young woman was killed and her parents injured following a blast in their TV in Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur district on Monday, police said.

Puja Sharma, 22, died on the spot while