Twenty one feared dead in Vietnam boat accidents
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Twenty one people, 19 of them children, may have died in central Vietnam in two boat accidents, officials and state media said on Sunday.
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Nearly 100 people were killed or are missing after a typhoon hit the southern coast of Vietnam this week, damaging hundreds of thousands of flimsy homes, a government report said on Thursday.
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CAN THO, Vietnam  - Recovery crews found eight more bodies in the rubble of a Vietnamese bridge on Thursday, taking the death toll from the collapse to around 60, officials said.
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WASHINGTON - The Navy task force overseeing John Kerry's swift boat squadron in Vietnam reported that his group of boats came under enemy fire during a March 13, 1969, incident that three decades later is being challenged by the Democratic presidential nominee's critics.    The March 18, 1969, weekly report from Task Force 115, which was located by The Associated Press during a search of Navy archives, is the latest document to surface that supports Kerry's description of an event for which he won a Bronze Star and a third Purple Heart...
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Relatives of nearly 200 people who died in a ferry accident off the Belgian coast 20 years ago attended a memorial Tuesday marking the anniversary of the disaster.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A boat sank while crossing a river in Afghanistan's most dangerous province, killing about 60 Taliban fighters and civilians, officials said yesterday. Elsewhere, 34 other suspected Taliban were killed during a military operation.
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Rescuers in Vietnam search the rubble of a bridge that collapsed on Wednesday, killing at least 42 people.
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More than 200 migrants are feared to have drowned at sea in separate incidents off Yemen, Turkey and the Canary Islands so far this month, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
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At least 20 people were feared dead after a passenger plane flying between two popular tourist destinations crashed in Cambodia today.
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Twenty people were killed and many others injured in a suspected Tamil Tiger bomb attack on a crowded bus in southwest Sri Lanka, officials said.
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At least 21 people have been killed and dozens missing and feared drowned after a tsunami triggered by a huge earthquake struck Malaysia&#39;s northern coast, officials say.
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At least eight people were killed, including an American and four other foreign tourists, while 13 remained missing after an overloaded speedboat capsized Tuesday off Thailand's Koh Samui, police said.
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Twelve members of a wedding party were among 31 feared drowned overnight in two separate boat accidents in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, officials said on Saturday.
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By Lydia Polgreen  Two dozen people were rescued and dozens more were feared dead after a boat carrying people trying to reach the Canary Islands was wrecked in northern Senegal, officials have said.
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Bad weather and overloading sank a  boat on a lake between Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda  and at least 35 people were feared drowned, a local shipping  official said on Tuesday.
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TUNISâA ship carrying illegal immigrants to Italy sank off Tunisia, killing at least 22 people and leaving another 42 missing, news reports said yesterday, sharpening the debate in Italy over how to deal with hundreds of people trying to slip into
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Twenty crew have been rescued from a ship which is listing in the Channel about 35 miles off the Devon coast.