Tuesday, 20 May 2014

Russia crash: At least 'Five dead' in train crash near Moscow

May 20

At least five people have died after a freight train hit a passenger train south-west of the Russian capital Moscow, officials say. Several carriages were derailed in the crash, which happened at...

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Death toll revised downward in Brazil bus crash

May 20

The death toll from a weekend bus accident in the northeastern state of Ceara was 18, not 23, Brazilian authorities said Monday. Authorities initially had reported 23 fatalities, a figure that...

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Zimbabwe: 10 perish in Kombi crash

May 20

Ten people were killed, seven of them on the spot, while six others were seriously injured when a Chitungwiza-bound commuter omnibus veered off the road and rammed a tree just after Trek Service Station...

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17 killed, 34 injured after bus falls into gorge in Jammu

May 20

Seventeen people were killed and 34 others injured when a passenger bus rolled down into a 400-feet deep gorge on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway in Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district in the wee...

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Clyde Snow listened to the testimony of bones

May 20

With ghoulish geniality, Clyde Snow liked to say that bones made good witnesses, never lying, never forgetting, and that a skeleton, no matter how old, could sketch the tale of a human life, revealing...

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Search continues for 17 still missing in ferry disaster

May 20

Divers resumed their search Tuesday for the 17 people still missing in the sunken ferry Sewol but no additional bodies were found in the morning, officials said. An increasing number of the vessel's...

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