At least 48 people were killed on Sunday in a fuel tanker truck explosion following a collision with another vehicle in north-central Nigeria, the state’s disaster management agency said.

A British man was on Friday jailed for nine years for arson at a hotel housing asylum seekers during anti-Muslim riots, by far the longest sentence imposed over recent widespread violent disorder.

China's Wenchang city, in the north-east of Hainan Island, on Friday was hit by the most powerful typhoon in a decade. 

A public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower fire on Wednesday blamed the disaster on failings by government, the construction industry and most of all the firms involved in fitting the exterior ...

Seven people were rescued and 21 people are missing at sea after a migrant shipwreck off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa, Italian news reports and UN officials said on Wednesday.

Four people, including a young girl, were killed and two others seriously injured when a Sarache vehicle skidded off the road in Ashkasham and Shaghnan districts of Badakhshan province, the police spokesman said....

According to the Bangladeshi authorities, the great flood in this country has affected the lives of more than 5 million people and has also claimed the lives of 59 people so far.

A clinic in western Yemen has been inundated with suspected cholera patients after heavy rains and flooding sparked fears of a major outbreak in the impoverished and war-ravaged country.

At least three people have been killed and 48 others wounded when a bus carrying Pakistani pilgrims crashed into a truck in southern Iran, state media reported on Monday.

River waters in low-lying Bangladesh are receding after days of deadly floods but 300,000 people are still in emergency shelters requiring aid, disaster officials said on Sunday.

At least 12 people have been killed and 32 injured when a bus carrying pilgrims returning from an Arbaeen pilgrimage has left at least 12 people dead and 32 injured, officials said. In a separate incident near ...

A bus carrying Pakistani Arbaeen pilgrims has been involved in a fatal traffic accident in the Iranian city of Yazd, officials said. The head of Iran's traffic police said 28 Pakistani pilgrims were killed and ...