LUXI COUNTY, CHINA (BNO NEWS) — Seven people were trapped on Monday when part of a coal mine collapsed in southwestern China, state-run media reported on Tuesday, but their conditions were not immediately known. Three mine workers have been rescued so…

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND (BNO NEWS) — An international operation has identified more than 50 people in 20 countries who allegedly used popular social networking websites to share child pornography, officials announced on Tuesday. Several abused childre…

TEHRAN, IRAN (BNO NEWS) — Fourteen people who were previously convicted of drug trafficking have been hanged in the Iranian capital of Tehran, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Mass executions of mostly drug traffickers are regularly carried out in the cou…

ENTOKOZWENI, SOUTH AFRICA (BNO NEWS) — Seven people were killed on early Monday morning when an overloaded taxi overturned in the eastern region of South Africa, emergency officials said. Several other passengers were seriously injured.

The accident…

HANOI, VIETNAM (BNO NEWS) — A passenger bus plunged off a bridge into a river in central Vietnam on late Thursday evening, killing 34 people and injuring dozens more, officials said on Friday. It is one of the country’s deadliest road accidents in rec…

SRINAGAR, INDIA (BNO NEWS) — An overloaded passenger bus overturned in India’s northern state of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, killing at least two people and injuring dozens more, local authorities said on Thursday.

The accident occurred when the …

ROGOTIN, CROATIA (BNO NEWS) — Two people were killed on Wednesday morning when a small plane crashed in the southern region of Croatia, police said on Thursday. The cause of the accident was not immediately known.

The accident occurred just before 8:…

GUANGZHOU, CHINA (BNO NEWS) — A large explosion ripped through a steel plant in southern China on Monday afternoon, killing nine people and injuring several others, state-run media reported.

The explosion occurred at around 3:48 p.m. local time at a …

DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN (BNO NEWS) — A moderate earthquake which struck remote towns in a mountainous region of Tajikistan on early Sunday morning has killed at least one person and buried dozens of animals, officials said. A number of buildings were des…