Incidents

The reason for the crash, as well as the number of casualties, has yet to be revealed by local authorities.

The storm heads the southern parts of the country with heavy rains, wind and seven-meter waves. Evacuation is underway since January 2.

The rescue operation on the site of the residential building collapse in Magnitogorsk has finished, there are no bodies left in the rubble.

The death toll from a tsunami that struck coastal areas around Indonesia's Sunda Strait has reached 281 with 57 others still unaccounted for, the country's disaster agency said Monday, as rescuers continue their search for the missing.

An FA-18 jet and a KC-130 tanker plane of the U.S. Marines collided and crashed off the western Japan cost early Thursday, with six of the seven crew members still missing as rescue and search operations continued.

At least 10 people died and 29 were wounded in a car bomb followed by gunfire in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, in an attack claimed by the Taliban.

Six bodies, including a young girl's, were discovered Monday at a home in the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki, local police said.

At least 30 people were killed after a cruise boat capsized due to bad weather in Lake Victoria in Uganda on Saturday evening, police said on Sunday.

At least 31 people were killed and 39 wounded on Friday in a bomb attack at a bazaar in the northwestern tribal belt of Pakistan.

At least 43 people were killed and 83 others injured after a suicide bombing struck a hotel in Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday evening, the Public Health Ministry confirmed.