Passenger trains collide in Iran, 44 killed – official
ANKARA – Forty-four people have been killed and 103 injured when one Iranian passenger train collided with another at a station about 250 km east of the capital Tehran, state media…
Israel arrests 13 on suspicion of arson over mass wildfires
JERUSALEM – Israeli police arrested 13 people on Friday on suspicion of arson, authorities said, after massive wildfires tore through central and northern Israel, a conflagration that Prime Minister Benjamin…
Death toll in China power plant accident climbs to 74
BEIJING – The death toll in the collapse of a platform under construction at a power plant in eastern China has rise to 74, with two others injured, as China’s…
IBM ‘failed’ on Australia’s census – Turnbull
International Business Machines Corp has failed in its handling of the $10 million IT contract for Australia’s first predominantly online census, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Friday. IBM…
Foreigners pile back into Australian property, reignite bubble fears
Australia’s ‘spring-selling’ real estate season is seeing a defiant return of Chinese buyers, undaunted by lending restrictions aimed at curbing their interest in the country’s sky-rocketing housing market. Financiers and…
Suicide truck bomb kills about 100 in Iraq, mostly Iranian pilgrims
A suicide truck bomb killed about 100 people, most of them Iranian Shi’ite pilgrims, at a petrol station in the city of Hilla 100 km south of Baghdad on Thursday,…
Helicopters drop warning leaflets as Indonesia braces for new protests
Indonesian President Joko Widodo has called for calm on Thursday amid simmering religious tension as helicopters dropped police leaflets over the capital, warning residents of the risk of harsh penalties…
Australia storm triggers “unprecedented” pollen asthma attacks
A storm in the city of Melbourne which triggered thousands of pollen allergy asthma attacks has killed at least four people and on Thursday was labelled a health emergency of “unprecedented…
At least 40 dead in China construction accident
BEIJING – At least 40 people have died and others are still trapped after a platform under construction at a power plant’s cooling tower in eastern China’s Jiangxi province collapsed…
HCM City battles with rising number of Zika cases
The Zika virus continues to spread in Ho Chi Minh City, with the infection number now rising to 62. According to Vietnamese news agency VnExpress, 27 new zika infections in…
