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Thursday, 24 July 2014

47 killed after TransAsia plane crashes in typhoon-hit Taiwan - Update

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A TRANSASIA Airways plane has crashed during an attempted emergency landing - killing 47 of the 58 people aboard. Flight GE222 has cra...

Telangana: 20 children killed as school bus and train collide

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A passenger train rammed into a school bus at an unmanned railway crossing in Telangana's Medak district on Thursday killing at least...

Air Algerie plane goes missing an hour after leaving Burkina Faso

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Air Algerie said it lost contact with one of its aircraft nearly an hour after takeoff from Burkina Faso on Thursday bound for Algiers. ...

Search for missing MH370 plane 'to continue uninterrupted' despite new Ukrainian disaster

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Angus Houston heads Australia's Joint Agency Coordination Centre, which oversees the search for the ill-fated airliner that is belie...

MH17: fears that dozens of bodies remain across crash site

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Dutch police investigators said on Wednesday it could be months before they know how many sets of human remains have been recovered from ...
Wednesday, 23 July 2014

At least 51 feared dead as Taiwan passenger plane crash lands in Penghu

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As many as 51 passengers of a TransAsia Airways flight died as it made an emergency landing in Penghu Wednesday evening, officials said. ...

Forensic experts carry out 29 autopsies in three days after migrant tragedy

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Mater Dei Hospital’s mortuary has seen the largest mass autopsy conducted since starting its operations in 2007, with 29 autopsies conduc...

Body of the final missing Washington mudslide victim has been found

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Four months after a mudslide ravaged a portion of Washington state, authorities announced Tuesday that they had located its final victim....

MH17: Investigators concerned at missing bodies

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International monitors said body parts still lay scattered at eastern Ukraine's unsecured crash site of downed flight MH17, as Dutch ...
Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Interpol team begins identifying victims of flight MH17 crash

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International police agency Interpol said on Tuesday one of its teams had started identifying victims of the Malaysia Airlines MH 17 flig...

MH17: Australian experts to join body identification team

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An Australian expert about to join an international MH17 disaster victim identification team expects the task will resemble his work afte...

Death toll from Typhoon Rammasun reaches 33 in China, at least 97 deaths in the Philippines

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The death toll from Super Typhoon Rammasun has risen to at least 33 after seven more bodies were recovered, state-run media reported on Mo...

Italy rescues 1,800 migrants over weekend, five bodies recovered

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Italy's navy said it rescued nearly 1,800 migrants in overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean over the weekend, and a merchant ship reco...

Victims' bodies, plane debris could hold vital clues to who shot down airliner over Ukraine

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"What exactly are they trying to hide?" President Barack Obama asked Monday as he demanded that Ukrainian rebels give investiga...
Monday, 21 July 2014

Indonesian National Police help identify MH-17 victims

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National Police chief Gen.Sutarman says the police’s Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) team will help identify victims of Malaysia Air...

Bus crash in Germany leaves nine dead and scores injured

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Nine people were killed and 43 injured when several buses crashed on a German motorway near the eastern city of Dresden. The crash, wh...

12 killed, over 20 injured as bus falls into ravine in Kshmir

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At least 16 people were killed and over 20 others were injured Monday when a speeding bus fell into a ravine in Azad Kashmir’s Mirpur ar...

Identifying the victims of MH17

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Returning the 298 victims from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 to their families with dignity and respect is a major priority for each nati...

MH17: families donate DNA samples to help identification

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Police have asked the families of the British victims of flight MH17 for toothbrushes and other personal items so DNA samples can be ta...

Mediterranean migrant boat death toll rises to 30

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Maltese officials said the migrants -- almost all Syrian -- may have died in a stampede as the boat was being rescued, while Italians sai...