Disaster

Five people died as a car hit an electric pole, tumbling itself over and knocking the pole down in a southwestern Bulgarian village, police say.

The victims were the driver and four pedestrians whose bodies were smashed by the pole as they were crossing the street.

A building used by Syrians in Istanbul?s Ba?ak?ehir district was set ablaze late May 9, allegedly by locals who had quarreled with the Syrians earlier in the day.

At least four people were killed when an Airbus A400M military plane crashed near Seville airport in southern Spain during a test flight, the first fatal incident involving the new transport craft.

Spokesperson for Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE) Raluca Lunculescu said Friday that the Romanian diplomat aboard a helicopter that crashed in Pakistan earlier in the day was slightly injured; although he was rushed to a hospital in the region, he did not need hospitalisation for his injuries and it is now safely in the town of Gilgit.

Six people suffered burns, three of whom serious, after a fire broke out on the premises of Hellenic Petroleum in Aspropyrgos, west of Athens, early on Friday.

The three seriously injured workers were transferred to the nearby Thriasio Hospital and two were said to be in intensive care.

A leftist SYRIZA deputy on Wednesday expressed her extreme grief over the apparent murder of a four-year-old girl by her father – a high-profile case that has shocked Greece – by also blaming the … capitalist system!

Three-year-old son of a miner, who was killed in Turkey?s worst mine disaster in 2013 along with 300 other miners in Soma, died on May 4 due a disease he had been suffering from for two years. 

Three people have been found alive under the rubble of a house in a village in Nepal eight days after the powerful earthquake in the country, international newswires reported on Sunday.

Rescuers on April 30 pulled a teenage boy out alive from under the wreckage of a guesthouse in Nepal five days after it collapsed in a massive weekend earthquake.

Russian flight control has lost the ability to rein in unmanned space vehicle “Progress” according to a Russian Space Agency official.

According to the statement, “Progress” was meant to resupply the ISS, but control was lost and the spacecraft is heading towards earth in an uncontrolled fashion.