Disaster

A 35-year-old man died at Acropolis metro station on Friday after apparently jumping in front of a train heading in the direction of Anthoupoli.

Authorities said the train driver was unable to stop in time to avoid hitting the unnamed man.

The fire service was called to recover his body.

An unknown number of residents have been trapped beneath the rubble of a residential building which unexpectedly collapsed in Southwestern China.

Firefighters and medical staff are working hard to find survivors after the incident which took place in the city of Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou Province, according to the South China Morning Post.

Burma and Bangladeshi immigrants began fighting each other with machetes and iron rods on a boat sailing near Indonesia, which is also in danger of sinking. Survivors speak of 100 dead.

Two people were killed and seven more were wounded when a huge wall collapsed, in China, on top of passers-by. One of the people buried under the rubble was killed instantly, while another died in the hospital a short while after. Seven wounded, including two children, are hospitalized and out of danger.

A fire at two adjacent hostels in Kawasaki, southwest of Tokyo, claimed the lives of at least four people on Sunday. Their identities were not immediately known.

Nineteen others were injured and sent to hospital. About 60 people are believed to have been staying at the two wooden hostels when the fire broke in one of them.

A Turkish miner who was photographed being kicked by then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s adviser during a demonstration in disaster-struck Soma last year has been fined for kicking a car in the convoy.

The Canadian Embassy in Athens will be closed until 9 a.m. on Tuesday, May 19, because it is moving to new premises.

As of Tuesday, the embassy will be located at 48 Ethnikis Antistaseos in Halandri.

Embassy officials will not be able to respond to letters, e-mails and phone calls until the move has been completed.

A theology professor has said the deaths of miners who died in Turkey's worst ever industrial accident last year, while trying to make an honest living, died in a "better" way than those who die while committing crimes.

Nepal's government has said that a new powerful earthquake that hit the country on Tuesday has left at least 19 people dead.

A spokesperson for the Home Ministry at the Nepalese government has added the death toll is expected to rise.

A building housing dozens of Syrians in Istanbul?s Ba?ak?ehir district was set ablaze late May 9, allegedly by locals upon rumors that a Syrian boy had stabbed a Turkish boy in the Güvercintepe neighborhood, which has been recently populated by Syrians who have fled the conflict in their country.