Fire starts on Indonesian ferry
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Fire breaks out on a ferry carrying 350 people, soon after it sets sail from the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
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A Japanese whaling ship is on fire and one crew member is missing off the coast of Antarctica after a blaze broke out below decks, New Zealand maritime authorities said on Thursday.
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Fire crews were sent to the seafront hotel after fire broke out in a food preparation area.
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A boat carrying Haitian migrants caught fire off the coast of the Dominican Republic, leaving at least eight passengers dead and 44 missing, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said Thursday.
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At least six people died after a fire on an Indonesian ferry off Jakarta Bay on Thursday, although the fire was now out and more than 200 people on board were being evacuated, a navy official said.
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About 130 people were injured, none seriously, when a fire erupted at a crowded movie theater Tuesday in Istanbul, Turkey. The premier of a Turkish horror film, The Spell.
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Fire engulfed an Indonesian ferry with more than 350 passengers on board off Jakarta Bay on Thursday, the navy said in a statement. The Levina I was on its way to Bangka island off Sumatra when it caught fire soon after dawn 50 miles from Jakarta's Tanjung Priok port.
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A Japanese whaler catches fire near Antarctica, leaving one person missing and raising environmental fears.
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A Japanese whaling ship caught fire Thursday in icy waters near Antarctica and most crew members were safely evacuated but one was listed as missing, officials said.
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(CP) - An 18-metre fishing vessel is on fire off the coast of Newfoundland, and a Cormorant search and rescue helicopter has been dispatched to pluck six people from the water.
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A fire that broke out on an Indonesian ferry on Thursday, killing six people, has been put out, the navy said.
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The Indonesian navy plans to tow a fire-gutted ferry from the Java Sea toward port on Friday, an officer said, amid confusion over how many passengers were on board and may still be missing.
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A mosque in the south-eastern Dutch village of Helden, near the German border, was on fire early today, police said. Firefighters battled the blaze.
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At least 21 people were killed in a fire that raged through a slum district of Bangladesh's port city of Chittagong early on Tuesday, police and witnesses said.
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At least 11 people died after a fire on an Indonesian ferry off Jakarta Bay on Thursday, with some desperate passengers hurling themselves off the blazing vessel into the sea, a navy official and a survivor said.
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YARMOUTH, N.S. (CP) - Lobster traps that were to be used as evidence in an illegal fishing case burned on a federal wharf early Monday in a fire that authorities say was suspicious.
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Visibility plunged to 50 metres in parts of Borneo island on Saturday and Singapore recorded its highest pollution reading in nearly a decade as fires in Indonesia sent acrid smoke across Southeast Asia.