Louisiana pipeline blast kills one
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A motorist was killed and another was injured when the Columbia Gulf natural gas pipeline in northeast Louisiana exploded on Friday afternoon near an interstate highway, said a Louisiana State Police spokeswoman.
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A supervisor at BP Plc's Texas City, Texas, refinery died on Monday of head injuries suffered when a heavy metal lid blew off a unit during a restart, his family's lawyer and BP said on Tuesday.
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Dozens of oil scoopers had died in an oil pipeline explosion on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria&#39;s largest city, police and witnesses said on Friday.
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At least seven people are killed in a gas pipeline blast near a massive mud leak in Indonesia's Java island.
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Dozens of people were killed in a  petroleum pipeline explosion in the commercial capital Lagos  early on Thursday morning, Nigerian police said on Friday .
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An explosion rocked a commercial district in western Baghdad on Wednesday, killing one person and wounding 47, authorities said.
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One person was killed and at least  19 people were injured on Tuesday when a tornado swept through  New Orleans neighborhoods still recovering from Hurricane  Katrina.
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A ruptured gasoline pipeline exploded in flames, killing at least 34 people near Nigeria's main city of Lagos as they tried to scoop fuel from the gushing leak, police said Wednesday.
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A U.S. soldier was killed Sunday in a roadside bomb explosion, the military said.
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One worker was killed and three critically injured on Friday when a platform fell as they attempted to repair a highway overpass, police said.
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A car bomb exploded in a residential area of the Syrian capital on Tuesday, killing one man and injuring two, witnesses said.
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An underground steam pipe explosion tore through a Manhattan street near Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday, swallowing a tow truck and killing one person as hundreds of others ran for cover amid a towering geyser of steam and flying rubble. New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said the explosion was not terrorism.
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At least one person was killed Wednesday in a suicide explosion at the French Hill junction in northern Jerusalem, Israel Radio reported.
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Assailants hurled a bomb and shot at two vehicles carrying employees of an affiliate of U.S. company Halliburton near Algiers Sunday, killing one driver and injuring nine people.
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Dust that collected in a piece of safety equipment caused a small explosion at a sugar refinery weeks before the deadly blast that killed nine workers, a federal investigator said Sunday.
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A powerful explosion rocked the Palestinian intelligence headquarters on Saturday, killing one man and wounding six, including the intelligence chief, security officials said.
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At least 12 people die in an explosion at a fuel pipeline on the outskirts of Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos.