New Year&#39;s flare suspected as the cause; 360 people injured
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A blaze in a crowded nightclub in central Buenos Aires killed at least 149 people and injured 360, city officials said today. The fire might have been caused by a
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By Mary Milliken BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - A flare thrown from theaudience ignited a packed Buenos Aires nightclub where lockedexit doors trapped young New Year's revelers in smoke andflames, killing 175 people, officials said on Friday.
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A major fire which caused millions of pounds of damage was started deliberately, say police.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - A flare thrown from the  audience ignited a packed Buenos Aires nightclub where locked  exit doors trapped young New Year's revelers in smoke and  flames, killing 175 people, officials said on Friday.
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Officials step up attempts to ease situation for millions of travellers stranded prior to new year celebrations
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Up to 100 people are hurt, more than 30 critically, in an explosion at a sugar refinery in the US state of Georgia.
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More than 30 high school football players and coaches were injured, two critically, when lightning struck near their practice field Tuesday evening, authorities said.
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More than 9,300 people across Asia were killed today after one of the most powerful earthquakes on record triggered massive tidal waves that slammed into coastlines in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Thailand and Malaysia.
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A fire which led to a mother and two children being taken to hospital was started deliberately, police say.
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Snow and ice storms have stranded hundreds of thousands of people Â most of them migrant workers hoping to leave for the Chinese New Year Â and more blizzards threatened Monday to wreck what for many is a rare chance to see family.
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BUENOS AIRES -- A flare thrown from the audience is being blamed for igniting a packed nightclub in Buenos Aires where locked exit doors trapped young New Year's revelers in smoke and flames, and resulted in 175 people being killed, officials said yesterday.
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Police say a number of people are seriously hurt in a crash involving 30 cars which was caused by fog.
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Three men and one woman died in accidents over the Christmas holidays. Two of the victims died in fires in their homes.
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Tokyo (dpa) - Two earthquakes with magnitudes of 6.9 and 7.4 hit western Japan Sunday night, injuring at least 38 people and causing more than 6,000 people to evacuate for fear of tidal waves, police and firefighters said Monday.
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Dozens of casualties are reported from tidal waves and earth tremors in southern and eastern Asia.
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The heat wave that scorched California a year ago may have contributed to hundreds more deaths than the state has officially reported, an Associated Press investigation suggests.
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Fire injures 31 at chemical plant in southeastern Turkey    ANKARA, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- Thirty-one people were injured in an explosion caused by fire in a chemical plant in southeastern Turkey, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Friday.