MP dies in DR Congo plane crash
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An aeroplane crashes into a swamp in the Democratic Republic of Congo killing a member of parliament.
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Rescuers in Nepal said they had found the wreckage of a helicopter which crashed at the weekend and that all 24 passengers, including a government minister and conservationists, had died.
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A plane carrying Ivory Coast's prime minister came under heavy gunfire as it landed yesterday at an airport in the country's north, but the leader was not harmed. Four other people were killed by the force of the landing at Bouake airport. Prime Minister Guillaume Soro was taken to a ...
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At least six people are reported to have been killed when a airliner crash-landed at an airport in Angola.
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A passenger helicopter reported to be carrying Togolese football officials crashed in Sierra Leone on Sunday killing at least 20 people, witnesses and diplomats in the West African country said.
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A helicopter ferrying passengers to Freetown airport in Sierra Leone crashes, killing at least 20 people.
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Democratic Republic of Congo's first  freely elected parliament in more than 40 years convened on  Friday, with President Joseph Kabila's coalition poised to  appoint a prime minister.
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A prominent Sri Lankan opposition Tamil parliamentarian was shot and killed on Tuesday, the military said, as the opposition charged that a lack of security made the government responsible for the death.
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MP killed in Rift Valley as negotiators for opposing sides in election dispute meet for the first time
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The Patriarch of Alexandria, the spiritual leader of all Orthodox Christians in Africa, died Saturday when a helicopter taking him and fellow churchmen to a monastic enclave in northern Greece crashed into the sea, government and church officials said.
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CARACAS : A military airplane crashed in a mountainous region in northeastern Venezuela killing all 25 passengers, a spokesman for the air rescue service told AFP.
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OTTAWA - A Boeing 747 cargo jet registered in Ghana crashed and burned on take-off from Halifax airport in the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia on Thursday, killing all seven crew on board, police said.
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CARACAS (Venezuela): A military airplane crashed in a mountainous region in northeastern Venezuela killing all 25 passengers, a spokesman for the air rescue service said Sunday.
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BEIRUT -- A Lebanese lawmaker who had long been critical of the Syrian regime was killed yesterday along with his son and eight people when a bomb exploded near a popular waterfront promenade in Beirut.
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More than 160 people have died in a deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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A helicopter ferrying passengers between Sierra Leone's capital Freetown and Lungi international airport crashed on Sunday and at least 20 people were believed to have died, foreign diplomats said.
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All 104 people on board an Afghan airliner which crashed near Kabul are dead, an official inquiry says.