MOSCOW - An explosion ripped through a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm near the Ural mountains on Friday killing 76 people, Interfax news agency quoted police as saying.
DAMASCUS, Syria - Syria's interior minister said an explosion near a bus parked at a gas station in a Damascus suburb was an accident and three people were killed. The minister, Said Mohammad Sammour, ruled out a terrorist attack in a statement to s
MOGADISHU, Somalia - A police spokesman says three Somali Cabinet ministers are among nine people killed in a bombing that ripped through a university graduation ceremony. The spokesman, Col. Abdilahi Hassan Barise, says the ministers for education,
SEOUL - Three people died and at least 60 were injured in an explosion at a South Korean defense research institute, local media reported Thursday. The site is 45 km northwest of Seoul and about 30 km from the heavily defended border with North Ko
All supernova explosions are violent affairs, but this one takes the cake. Astronomers have spotted a new type of extremely bright cosmic explosion they think originates from an exceptionally massive star. This breed of explosion has been long predi
HEGANG, China - The death toll from China's latest coal mine disaster reached 92 on Sunday, state television said, and hopes dimmed that more survivors would emerge after a gas blast at a colliery in the nation's far northeast. Chinese television n
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