Eight children from Mali die in New York City fire
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Nine immigrants from Mali, including eight children, died in a house fire after flames raced up the stairs, trapping people on the second floor, officials said on Thursday.
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At least eight people die in bush fires sweeping through South Australia
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Rival tribes armed with bows and arrows clashed Wednesday close to a U.S.-owned gold mine in Indonesia's Papua region, killing eight people, a company official and media reports said
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Eight people were confirmed dead and at least seven others were still missing after Australia's deadliest bushfires in 20 years swept parts of two southern states.
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Three city firefighters were killed while responding to two separate apartment blazes &#151; the deadliest day for New York firefighters since the 2001 terror attacks.
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KINSHASA, Congo  - Attackers overran a sleeping village in east Congo's lawless Ituri province Monday and slaughtered 14 residents, including seven children who were burned alive, a UN spokeswoman said.
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A New York City fire lieutenant died and eight people were injured in a fire in a high-rise apartment building.
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A fire killed six people, including four children, in a single-family home early Wednesday, officials said, and authorities arrested an 18-year-old man in the blaze hours later.
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A devastating fire in a three-story building in the Bronx killed eight children and one adult and left several others injured in one of New York's deadliest blazes in recent memory, authorities said.
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Nine patients of a clinic for the mentally ill in Siberia died in a fire Sunday, a day after a blaze at a Moscow drug treatment center killed 45, officials said.
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An apartment building fire in southwest Germany killed at least nine people, five of them children, and left 20 people hospitalized, police said Monday.
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A fire at a village school in central  Iran killed at least 16 children on Thursday, state television  said.
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TIKRIT, Iraq  - Iraqi police and local officials said at least six children and eight women were among 32 people killed in a U.S. air strike on Friday which the U.S. military said killed 20 al Qaeda militants, including two women.
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A fire at a mental hospital in Siberia kills eight people on the day a fire at a Moscow clinic kills 45.
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Fire kills 9   A fire tore through a house in a central Russian region yesterday, killing nine people, including four children, emergency officials said.
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A fire at a Russian psychiatric hospital killed nine people and wounded 16, local media reported on Sunday, just over a day after a blaze at a hospital in Moscow killed 45 women.
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A house fire Sunday morning in this Detroit suburb left three family members dead about the same time that a blaze in Detroit killed two young children, police and fire officials said.