At least 40 people were killed Tuesday morning when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an Iraqi army recruiting centre in Baghdad, officials were quoted by local media as saying.
At least 100 people were also injured in the blast which appeared to be targeting mostly soldiers, police and new recruits.
Further details were not immediately [...]
The death toll from the massive mudslide in Zhouqu County, northwest China’s Gansu Province, has risen to 1,239 as of 4 p.m. Saturday, with 505 still missing, local disaster relief headquarters said.
The county education department said Saturday that primary and middle schools in Zhouqu will start the autumn semester on August 25, ten days later [...]
Rifleman Remand Kulung was on look-out when the helicopter hit his sentry post
The soldier died after a helicopter hit the look-out post in Afghanistan where he was keeping watch, it has emerged.
Rifleman Remand Kulung, 27, from 1st Battalion The Mercian Regiment, died from his injuries in a Birmingham hospital on Thursday.
Two days earlier, a Chinook hit [...]
Services are being held as the nation marks the 65th anniversary of Victory over Japan Day.
The Prince of Wales and Prime Minister David Cameron will join veterans at the Cenotaph in London to mark the loss of almost 30,000 UK lives in the Far East.
Mr Cameron said Britain must never forget the sacrifices made by [...]
Over 100 people were killed and 2,000 went missing on Sunday morning after landslides triggered by torrential rains hit northwest China’s Gansu province, an official said.
The landslides occurred at around 12 am on Sunday in Zhouqu county in Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. More than 100 people have been confirmed dead and some 2,000 others are [...]
Floods caused by a week of heavy rain have killed more than 1,000 people in Pakistan’s northwest and rescuers battled on Sunday to distribute relief to tens of thousands of people trapped.
A westerly weather system moving in from Iran and Afghanistan, combined with heavy monsoon rain, caused the worst floods on record in Pakistan in [...]
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