The death toll from flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rain in northern India rises to 70, media reports say.

Floods and landslides have killed at least 19 people and destroyed buildings after heavy rain in North India.

A man who is believed to be from Newry, County Down, has died in a suspected hit and run collision in New York.

A baboon is shot dead after it escaped from its safari park enclosure.

Gunmen are barricaded in a hospital in the Pakistani city of Quetta, hours after a blast on a bus killed at least 11 female univ

At least 10 students are killed in a blast on a bus at a university for women in the city of Quetta in Balochistan province, Pak

Two people are killed by a wildfire raging north of the US city of Colorado Springs, described as the state's worst blaze on rec

A man from the Guarani-Kaiowa ethnic group is shot dead in an area disputed by cattle ranchers near an indigenous reserve in wes

At least one person is dead and about 30 injured in an explosion and fire that tore through a chemical plant in the US state of

A British woman killed during a vintage car rally in Siberia was a "lovable" person, her father says.

At least one person is killed and dozens are wounded as two trains collide near Buenos Aires, Argentine media report.

Six Afghan policemen have been killed in an insider attack at their checkpoint in southern Helmand province.

The authorities in Mexico say they have found the body of mayoral candidate Jaime Orozco, who had been missing since Monday.

A Lebanese man apparently protesting against Hezbollah's role in the Syria conflict is shot dead outside the Iranian embassy in

A suicidal man started a fire on a packed commuter bus in south-eastern China that killed 47 people, state media report.

At least five people have died after a series of shootings around a college in Santa Monica, California, police have confirmed.

A fire engulfs a bus during rush hour in China's south-eastern city of Xiamen, killing at least 42 people and injuring 30, offic

Four men are held in Israel in connection with a shooting at a gay club in Tel Aviv in 2009 which killed two people.

Two Tunisian soldiers are killed and at least another two wounded in a roadside explosion as they hunt al-Qaeda-linked militants

At least three women from Burma's Rohingya minority are killed when police fire on protesters in Rakhine state.

The funerals of a teenage boy and a man who drowned in County Down at the weekend are due to take place later.

A female car driver dies following a collision with a stationary lorry on the A90 between Aberdeen and Dundee.

Police believe a Ford Fiesta recovered in Glasgow may be linked to a fatal street shooting in Edinburgh.

David Cameron has launched a task force to tackle radicalisation in the UK, in the wake of the fatal stabbing of Drummer Lee Rig

A fire at a poultry processing plant in China has killed at least 119 people, state media say.

A unionist is shot dead at a Lonmin-owned platinum mine in South Africa, reports say, amid on-going tension between rival trade

The family of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is "shaken" by leaked photos of the bathroom where he shot dead his girlfrie

At least nine children and a policeman have been killed as a suicide bomber targeted a military patrol in eastern Afghanistan, p

A fire has killed at least 112 people at a poultry processing plant in north-east China's Jilin province, officials say.

Homes are evacuated across southern Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Switzerland and at least two people have been kille

The bodies of two males, who are thought to have drowned, are being recovered from a disused quarry in County Down.

An environmentalist campaigning for the protection of endangered sea turtles in Costa Rica is found dead on a local beach.

Four US firefighters have been killed battling a fire in a hotel in Houston, Texas.

A Brazilian indigenous man in his thirty is shot dead during a police operation on disputed land in the south-western state of M

Robert Hall speaks to a forensic artist who explains how he created a detailed model of the head of one of the sailors who drown

At least 15 people are killed in a series of bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, as a recent upsurge in violence continues

The father of a man shot in an armed car chase in Edinburgh says his death has left the family devastated.

At least seven Afghan policemen are killed as two colleagues open fire in the southern province of Kandahar, officials say.

Gunmen in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi shoot dead a Shia lawyer and two of his sons in a sectarian attack, police say.

An 11-day-old boy dies in hospital following a crash on the M6 in Staffordshire.

At least 10 people are killed in a series of suspected bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, reports say.

Detectives in Edinburgh say they are treating the death of a man in the early hours of Sunday as murder.

Torrential rain has caused severe flooding in Texas, claiming the lives of two people.

At least 16 children have killed in a fire on their school bus in the eastern Pakistan of Gujrat, police say.

A motorcyclist dies in a crash on the second Severn Crossing, which closes the M4 eastbound.

A pregnant woman has been shot dead in Tanzania during a security operation after gas protests in Mtwara, a journalist in the so

Research into deaths on motorway hard shoulders suggests more than 800 people a year have been killed or injured in such inciden

Suicide bombers have targeted a military camp and a French-run uranium mine in north-western Niger leaving at 17 soldiers dead,

More children may drown without better school swimming provision, the Amateur Swimming Association (ASA) has warned.

A bomb planted in a rickshaw has killed at least 12 people in Quetta in south west Pakistan, officials say.

A man has been killed in a machete attack and two suspects shot and wounded by police in Woolwich, south-east London.

One person is thought to be dead and two believed seriously injured following a reported knife attack in Woolwich, south-east Lo

Rioters light fires and stone emergency services in the suburbs of the Swedish capital Stockholm for the third night running aft

An eight-year-old boy dies after his bicycle is involved in a collision with a mobile crane.

A man has shot himself dead in front of an altar inside the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, police say, forcing its evacuation

A widow warns of the dangers of binge drinking after her Wales rugby fan husband fell into a river and died during a Six Nations

At least 13 people are killed in new bomb attacks in Iraq, a day after a wave of bombings across the country left at least 70 pe

An 86-year-old woman dies in a house fire in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, which broke out on Monday evening.

A family member carrying out a home DIY job may have caused an explosion which killed two people and left a third in hospital, s

Police say a father was killed and a grandfather and grandson are in a critical and serious condition in hospital after a plane

A fatal shooting in Hove which left one dead and two injured was not a random attack, police say.

A man and a woman are found dead at the scene of a suspected gas explosion at a Nottinghamshire house.

A 63-year-old man has died in a fire at a top floor flat in University Street in south Belfast.

At least 14 people are killed by car bombs in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Basra, police and medical officials say.

One person is understood to have died and two others injured as a light aircraft crashes in Gwynedd.

A 31-year-old man dies in hospital after being found wounded in a street after a late-night shooting.

A senior female Pakistani politician has been shot dead in the city of Karachi.

Flooding and landslides across nine southern Chinese provinces leave more than 50 people dead and 14 missing, officials say.

An unknown number of militants are killed during air raids on their training camps in north-eastern Nigeria, while a military pl

A suicide bomber targets a convoy of foreign armoured vehicles in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least six Afghan civilia

At least 34 people have been killed in series of bomb attacks across Iraq, several of which targeted mainly Shia districts of Ba

An 11-year-old girl dies in hospital after being hit by a lorry.

Part of the M25 is closed in Kent following the death of a pedestrian who was hit by a lorry.

At least 50 people are feared drowned after boats carrying Rohingya Muslims capsize while fleeing a powerful cyclone off western

At least nine people have been killed in a car bomb explosion near a hospital in the Libyan city of Benghazi, an official tells

Afghanistan summons the Iranian ambassador in protest at an alleged fatal shooting of illegal migrants by Iranian border guards.

At least 27 miners die in an explosion at a colliery in China's south-west Sichuan province, the second such accident in 24 hour

At least 18 people are killed and 22 wounded in car bomb attacks in the Turkish town of Reyhanli, near the Syrian border, the in

Six children killed by a house fire in Derby are remembered in a church service and at a community event later.

A teenager is stabbed to death and another suffers a knife injury in an attack in east London.

Taiwan demands an explanation from Manila after a fisherman was shot and killed in disputed waters by the Philippine coastguard.

At least 912 people are now known to have died in April's collapse of a building in Bangladesh, as a fire overnight kills eight

The bodies of three soldiers who were killed in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan are being repatriated to the UK.

A fire in a garment factory in the Bangladesh capital kills at least eight people, as the death toll from a building collapse pa

A woman who started a fire which killed five members of a neighbouring family is told she must serve life for each murder with a

A 23-year-old man from the Scottish Borders dies after being shot in the leg.

At least 20 people have been killed and 36 injured by a gas tanker exploding on a motorway in a suburb of Mexico City, officials

A man dies following a collision between his car and a lorry near a busy junction in Renfrewshire.

At least five people are killed and many wounded in the second bomb attack in two days targeting an Islamic party in north-west

A newlywed was among five women killed and four injured as a hired stretch limo turned into a fireball during a bridal party in

A memorial is held for a soccer referee who died after he was allegedly punched while issuing a yellow card during a game in Sal

Unidentified gunmen on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao kill Helmin Wiels, a prominent politician who campaigned for indepe

A driver from west London is killed while taking part in a vintage touring car race at the Donington Park circuit in Leicestersh

Five women die and four are injured when a stretch limo catches fire on a major bridge in the San Francisco area.

A man dies in a fire at a 20-storey tower block in the Nechells area of Birmingham.

Five people have died after a limousine caught fire on a bridge in San Francisco.

A man dies following a two-vehicle crash near Portrush in County Antrim, becoming the third fatality on Northern Ireland's roads

A senior tribal leader in Abyei, an area claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, is shot dead in a stand-off involving a rival Ar

Two people die and 14 others are injured as a train carrying toxic and flammable chemicals derails, causing a major fire near th

A man dies in a car accident involving three vehicles in Larne, County Antrim.

A motorist who caused the death of a cyclist is banned from driving for five years, but campaigners brand the punishment "scanda

April was Iraq's deadliest month since June 2008, with a total of 712 people killed and 1,633 wounded in bomb attacks and other

A five-year-old boy who shot dead his little sister in the US state of Kentucky used a gun marketed for children, authorities re

The deaths of three British soldiers in Afghanistan who were killed by a roadside bomb are a "hammer-blow", a battalion spokesma

An Essex police officer shot dead while tackling a gunman is awarded a posthumous honour for bravery by his force.

Flash floods in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have left 13 people dead. 4 more people are reported missing

At least eight people have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in central Iraq, officials say.

A delivery driver dies after being crushed by heavy lifting equipment used to move goods from a truck at an East Lothian racecou

Three British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan after their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device, the Minist

Three members of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) are killed in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan

A body recovered from the River Medway in Kent is confirmed as that of missing Welsh soldier Josh Thomas.

A 75-year-old man is stabbed to death near a primary school in Birmingham.

Detectives trace the driver and car they believe was involved in the accident which killed a 13-year-old boy who was found dead

A French soldier with the force that intervened in Mali has been killed by a roadside bomb in the far north of the country, Fren

An Israeli settler has been killed by a Palestinian, who stabbed and shot him, at a bus stop in the northern West Bank.

Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi survives a car bomb attack in the capital, Damascus, in which several people are killed, sta

A Guinness World Record holder in India who attempted to cross a river suspended by his ponytail dies during the stunt.

The Zambian football fraternity mark the 20th anniversary of the plane crash that killed its entire national football team.

A fire breaks out in a collapsed factory in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, hampering efforts to reach survivors of a disaster that

A bomb attack on a politician's office in the north-west city of Kohat has killed at least five people, police say.

Eight women remain in a critical or serious condition after a motorway crash which left one woman dead, police say.

At least 10 people are killed in a bomb attack on an election meeting for the Awami National Party in the southern Pakistani cit

There are unconfirmed reports of fatalities in a crash on the M62 in West Yorkshire as hospitals in the region declare a major i

The driver of an ambulance and a patient are killed when it comes off the road in the New Forest and crashes into a tree.

A gunman in the north German town of Hamelin shoots dead the top district executive before shooting himself, according to police

Somalia's deputy chief prosecutor is shot dead by three masked men in Mogadishu, officials say - shortly after the UK reopens it

At least 38 people are feared to have been killed in a fire at a psychiatric hospital in the Moscow region, officials say.

A college lecturer admits killing a 30-year-old man in a hit-and-run incident in West Dunbartonshire.

A 16-year-old boy who was stabbed on a bus in north London earlier this week dies.

Thousands of mourners attend a memorial for a university police officer killed during the hunt for the Boston marathon bombing s

A 39-year-old man dies after falling into the River Findhorn at the Randolph's Leap beauty spot in Moray.

A gunman has shot dead five people - including a 14-year-old girl - in the western Russian city of Belgorod, local officials say

Police in Seattle say five people have been killed in a shooting incident at an apartment complex south of the city

The death of a man shot in Southampton is believed to be drug-related. police reveal.

A man is shot and killed in Southampton while police arrest a 41-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman.

Authorities in Texas say it is safe for some evacuees to begin returning to homes after a huge blast at a fertiliser plant which

A man dies in a fire in a flat in Londonderry late on Friday.

A 60-year-old man is killed and another man is airlifted to hospital after a crash on the A947 in Aberdeenshire.

Twelve bodies have been recovered from the site of a deadly blast at a fertiliser plant in the US state of Texas, officials say.

A fire which killed five members of a family was started deliberately by someone holding a flame against a child's pushchair, sa

US police are hunting a suspect in Monday's deadly Boston Marathon bombing, after a car-chase and shoot-out in which police say

A 50-year-old coach driver dies after being run over by his own vehicle in a shop car park near Plymouth.

A 34-year-old man is killed in a shooting in north London.

A gunman has shot dead a police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge near Boston, officials s

At least 22 people, including two children, are killed and scores injured in a bomb attack on a cafe in the Iraqi capital Baghda

A fire at a house in Birmingham in which a woman in her 50s died is being treated as murder, police say.

At least five people are shot dead in an attack by a group of armed men in the eastern Kenyan town of Garissa.

Several people have been killed and many injured in a huge explosion at a fertiliser plant near Waco in the US state of Texas, p

FBI images show a backpack and apparent fragments of a pressure cooker as it probes the attack on the Boston Marathon that left

A woman dies, a teenage girl suffers 70% burns to her body and four others are injured in a house fire in Birmingham.

A driver has been killed and several passengers are seriously injured after a coach carrying Britons crashed in the French Alps.

One man dies and two other people are injured in a crash on the M90 motorway on the outskirts of Perth.

Two football supporters are shot dead by rival fans in Fortaleza, Brazil near one of the venues for the World Cup.

Bassist Chi Cheng dies at the age of 42 four years after a car accident in California left him a coma.

At least 20 people have been killed in a series of bomb and gun attacks in the Somalian capital, Mogadishu.

One person dies and two others are injured when their car collides with a fire engine that was responding to an earlier fatal cr

A fire at the Five Sisters Zoo in West Calder, West Lothian, has resulted in the death of an otter and all the animals in the re

Five people are killed as gunmen open fire and detonate explosives at a courthouse in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, police say.

About 50 firefighters are tackling a blaze in the tropical house of the Five Sisters Zoo in West Lothian, which broke out early

Police name four members of a family of five killed when their car was in collision with a lorry on the A18 near Grimsby.

At least 11 are killed and more than 30 wounded in bomb attacks on mosques in Iraq's capital Baghdad and in the province of Diya

Ljubisa Bogdanovic, suspected of killing 13 people in a Serbian village before turning his gun on himself, has died of his wound

A woman has been accused of killing five members of the same family by deliberately starting a fire in a row over a neighbour's

A police officer escorting a polio vaccination team in north-west Pakistan has been shot dead, officials say, in the latest in a

A man is killed on the hard shoulder of the M25 in Surrey when a lorry collides with his car, leading to the closure of the moto

RSPB Scotland says the death of a golden eagle shot near the Southern Upland way last year is a conservation "disaster".

Essex Police will be seeking "all appropriate commendations and awards" for a police officer shot dead tackling a gunman.

Thirteen people, including a child, are killed in Serbia by a man who went on a shooting rampage in a village near Belgrade, rep

At least 10 people have been killed in a car bomb blast in a busy part of the Syrian capital Damascus, state media reports.

Nine passengers and four crew are feared dead after the helicopter they were flying in crashed in a jungle in the north-east of

A man is shot dead in a "tragic accident" while out hunting rabbits with a friend in Shropshire, police say.

At least nine people are killed and many injured after a roadside bomb hits a bus in the Afghan province of Wardak, officials sa

The driver of a car which crashed into a house in Leyland during a police pursuit dies.

Three soldiers and two coalition civilians serving with Nato-led forces in Afghanistan are killed by a bomb in the south of the

A 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man injured in a house fire in Honiton on Friday have died in hospital, police say.

One person has died after a crash involving three lorries and a vehicle towing a caravan on the M74 south of Lockerbie, police s

A minute's silence in memory of the six Philpott children killed in a fire last May is to be held before Derby County's match ag

At least 36 people, including children, are reportedly killed in a major road accident in southern Nigeria.

At least 57 people are killed after catastrophic flash floods hit the province of Buenos Aires and the capital, Argentine offici

A man is shot dead during a police drugs raid in the Clayton area of Bradford.

The governor of the US state where 20 young children were shot dead at school in December is set to sign some of America's stric

More than 50 people die in Argentina floods

Five fire engines tackle a house blaze near Stockton which claims the lives of two people.

One person has died in a fire at Lenadoon Avenue in west Belfast shortly after midnight on Thursday.

The government in Argentina announces three days of national mourning after flash floods killed more than 50 people in La Plata

Two Palestinians have been fatally shot by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Tulkarm, after clashes between soldiers and y

At least 21 London tower blocks rated as a high fire risk by local councils were not visited by firefighters last year - despite

Unusually heavy rains cause flash floods in Buenos Aires, in Argentina, leaving eight people dead in the city and its suburbs.

A suicide bomb and gun attack on the governor's compound in the western Afghan city of Farah leaves at least three people dead a

The man who died after falling into the sea near Portstewart harbour was Stanley Duncan, chief executive of the Driver and Vehic

The M25 clockwise at Lakeside will stay closed through the rush hour after a fatal eight vehicle pile-up, Essex police says.

A 19-year-old man dies after police officers are called to reports of a shooting in north London.

A bus driver dies and another person is airlifted to hospital after a crash near Haster in the Highlands on Monday evening.

Thirteen children die in a fire blamed on an electrical fault at a Muslim school in the Burmese city of Rangoon, officials say.

A woman and a girl have died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning on a boat on Lake Windermere in Cumbria, police say.

Pirates off Bangladesh are thought to have drowned at least 16 fishermen after tying up their hands and feet and throwing them i

A man in his seventies has died in a fire in a mobile home near Omagh.

A man in his twenties has been shot dead in west Belfast.

Five members of the South African military are killed in a helicopter crash as it patrolled the Kruger National Park for rhino p

A woman in her 90s dies following a road traffic collision in Bangor, County Down.

About 900 pigs have died after a large fire that destroyed a piggery at a farm, Dorset Fire and Rescue Service says.

At least 15 people have been killed in suicide bomb attacks on Shia worshippers in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Kirkuk.

A suicide attack on a convoy carrying a senior Pakistani police commander in Peshawar has left at least six people dead, officia

Five people die and three others are injured in a fire at a factory in the western Indian city of Mumbai, fire brigade officials

A bus driver in China narrowly evaded death after a lamp post smashed through the windscreen of his vehicle.

A £10,000 reward is put forward for information on the murder of a 26-year-old Merseyside man shot dead ten years ago.

A pile-up involving about 100 vehicles on a snow-hit Austrian motorway leaves at least one person dead.

Two men from Greater Manchester have been killed in a road accident while on holiday in Thailand, the government says.

Around 1,000 dead ducks have been pulled from a river in Sichuan, Chinese media report, while the Shanghai river pig toll passes

Irish fisherman James McCarthy has described the moment he nearly died after falling into near freezing waters in the Gulf of Al

Police in Brazil say 16 people will be prosecuted over a nightclub fire in the town of Santa Maria in January, which left 241 pe

About 30 people die in a fire at a camp housing Burmese refugees in northern Thailand, local officials say.

A US Marine has shot dead a male and female colleague before turning the gun on himself at a base in the state of Virginia, say

A blast at a mosque in the centre of the Syrian capital, Damascus, has killed a leading pro-government cleric, state media repor

School Reporters from Devon have been involved in a fatal train crash in Somerset on their way to the Radio 1 studios in London.

Eleven out of 17 district general hospitals in Wales have higher death rates than should be expected, according to statistics pu

A BBC Crimewatch reconstruction of an arson attack which killed six people leads to new information about a missing computer.

Several people are reported to be dead or injured after a helicopter crash near Berlin's Olympic Stadium during a police exercis

An elderly main dies in a fire at a four-storey block of flats in Hawk Brae at Livingston in West Lothian

The head of the department of corrections in the US state of Colorado, Tom Clements, has been shot dead at his home, authorities

A six-year-old girl dies and two other children are injured after falling into a canal in Kidderminster.

A Bulgarian former army officer shoots dead three members of a Roma family who lived next door to him, before turning the gun on

Seven service personnel have died in a blast at a military ammunition storage facility in the US state of Nevada, says a Marine

At least 48 people are killed and scores are injured in a series of bomb attacks in Baghdad on the 10th anniversary of the US-le

A mother accused of the manslaughter of her six children in a house fire tells jurors it is "possible" her husband started the b

The parents of a 12-year-old boy killed by an IRA bomb in Warrington 20 years ago will address the Northern Ireland Assembly.

At least eight people are killed by a massive car bomb in the centre of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, police say.

A woman dies in an early morning fire at a top-floor flat in the east end of Edinburgh.

Ten people are killed as a car bomb explodes at a bus station near Basra in southern Iraq, days before the 10th anniversary of t

Special events are taking place in Warrington 20 years after an IRA bomb killed Tim Parry and Johnathan Ball.

The M4 eastbound reopens at Newport after an earlier crash in which one person died but congestion remains at the Brynglas tunne

A man accused of starting a fire which killed six of his children said petrol was found on his clothes because he did not have a

New York state police say they have killed a gunman who was holed up in a building, a day after a shooting spree that left four

A man accused of starting a fire which killed six of his children says he did not have a bath or shower for weeks before.

At least 12 people have been killed in a series of bomb and gun attacks outside government buildings in the Iraqi capital Baghda

US police hunt a suspect after four people are shot dead in two shootings in two villages in upstate New York.

A man accused of starting a fire which killed six of his children, tells jurors he is "ashamed" of a sex act with his co-defenda

The number of dead pigs found floating in Shanghai's main river has risen to almost 6,000.

A Tunisian cigarette vendor dies after setting himself on fire in an act reminiscent of the event which triggered the "Arab Spri

Officials say the number of dead pigs found in Shanghai's Huangpu River has risen to nearly 6,000, amid online concern over wate

Five Americans from the Nato-led foreign forces in Afghanistan die in a helicopter crash blamed on a rainstorm, the US says.

Several US and Afghan soldiers have been shot dead by a man wearing Afghan uniform at a remote base in eastern Afghanistan, Isaf

Two Shetland ponies and a horse die in a fire that destroyed their stable.

A man is killed in an early morning road accident in Portaferry in County Down.

Police name two men they want to speak to following the death of a musician who was stabbed in his flat in Essex, as it emerges

The community is still in shock following the fatal stabbing of schoolgirl Christina Edkins on a Birmingham bus, a vicar says.

A fire sweeps through an apartment building in the town of Backnang, southern Germany, killing at least seven people, including

The tourism secretary in the central Mexican state of Jalisco has been shot dead in an apparent ambush, 10 days after he was app

A taxi driver who was filmed being dragged behind a police van in South Africa before being found dead is buried in his native M

At least nine people die as a suicide bomber attacks the Afghan defence ministry in Kabul, during a visit to the city by the new

Passengers on the lower deck of a bus where a girl was stabbed to death heard screaming but thought it was teenagers messing abo

Verdicts of unlawful killing are given at the inquests of three women shot at a house in County Durham.

A 16-year-old girl who was attacked on rush-hour bus in Birmingham died from a single stab wound to the chest, post-mortem tests

Four people are killed and eight injured in a knife attack in China's western Xinjiang province, officials say.

A Palestinian shot in the head by Israeli soldiers during a confrontation with stone-throwers has died of his wounds, hospital o

A lion kills a woman who was a volunteer intern at a private big cat park in California and is shot dead as rescuers try to save

A passenger is stabbed to death on a bus in Birmingham city centre.

A two-year-old girl dies after being struck by a 4x4 vehicle in Portlethen in Aberdeenshire.

Nine children are killed by a fire at a Koranic school in a residential district near the centre of the Senegalese capital, Daka

Twelve members of a pro-government militia group have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack in south Yemen.

A fatal helicopter crash in central London might have been avoided if safety concerns raised in a 2005 report had been heeded, a

Schools and businesses shut down as the Pakistani city of Karachi mourns dozens killed by a powerful bomb blast in a mainly Shia

An explosion outside a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Karachi has killed at least seven people, police say.

A 17-year-old boy dies following after his car is involved in a collision with a tractor in County Londonderry.

A man and a woman are found dead with gunshot wounds at a house in Devizes, Wiltshire.

The death toll in Brazil's deadliest fire in decades rises to 240, as a 25-year old man dies in hospital a month after the night

The Nato-led Isaf force apologises for the deaths of two young Afghan boys, killed when a coalition helicopter opened fire on th

Vandals who set fire to an electricity substation in Carrickfergus could have been killed, Northern Ireland Electricity has said

South Africa suspends eight police officers implicated in the death of a man who was filmed being dragged through the streets be

At least five people have been killed in a double car bombing at a market in the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniya, officials say.

The father of a six-year-old boy killed in a mass school shooting in December breaks down in tears at a Senate hearing on a bill

The best friend of Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot dead by the paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius, has been speaking about her fin

Several people are dead or seriously injured after a shooting at a factory near the Swiss city of Lucerne, police say.

Seven people are reported killed in a car bomb blast in the northern Malian town of Kidal, thought to be aimed at a Tuareg group

At least 19 people are killed in a fire an illegal paper and plastics market in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta.

One person is left dead after a morning house fire in the Easterhouse area of Glasgow.

The mother of Reeva Steenkamp, who was shot dead by her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius, has spoken of the moment she learned of her d

A 90-year-old driver dies six days after he was involved in a two-car crash on the A977 in Perth and Kinross.

A man dies when the car he is driving crashes with three other vehicles after failing to stop for police.

India's Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde visits the sites of the two explosions in Hyderabad which killed 15 people and injured

Three people die on the Las Vegas Strip after a gunman in a Range Rover fired on a Maserati, sending it crashing into a taxi and

Many are feared dead in a huge car bomb in the Syrian capital Damascus which state media blame on "terrorists".

A widow hugs the driver who killed her husband and urges him to "get on with his young life".

Patricia Machin told Radio 5 live Breakfast she has "never blamed" the driver who knocked down her husband and killed him.

Seven people have been shot dead in an attack on a mosque in north-eastern Kenya near the border with Somalia, officials say.

A witness heard "non-stop talking like fighting" from Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius's home shortly before his girlfriend Reeva

Three people and a gunman have died in a multiple shooting involving a string of car-jackings near Los Angeles, California, poli

Blink-182's Travis Barker says he won't travel to Australia because he is still suffering the effects of a near-fatal plane cras

Flooding and landslides in the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi leave at least 15 people dead, officials say.

A teenager is stabbed to death at a house party in south-west London.

The governor of Pakistan's Balochistan province denounces intelligence failures as the death toll in a sectarian bombing in Quet

A teenager is killed and a 32-year-old man is seriously injured in a shooting in east London.

At least 15 people are killed and some 50 others wounded in a bomb attack in a crowded market in the Pakistani city of Quetta, p

South African Olympic and Parlaympic athlete Oscar Pistorius faces a murder charge after girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp is shot dead

South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is facing a murder charge after his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead at

The death toll from an attack in Guam rose to three after a Japanese man mown down by a car died of his injuries, officials say.

A teenage boy in Bahrain has been shot dead during protests to mark the second anniversary of a failed uprising.

At least five people were killed when a plane carrying football fans attempted an emergency landing and caught fire in the easte

A passenger plane crash-lands near the east Ukrainian city of Donetsk, catching fire, with reports of at least one death.

A man found shot in a street in Dartford dies from his injuries, police say.

The bodies of a man and a woman are found at a bungalow at Caister-on-Sea in Norfolk.

At least 13 people die in a minibus explosion on the Syria-Turkey border, amid reports that Syrian rebels have taken control of

A drink-driver from Dunblane admits killing a teenage passenger in a horrific car crash in Aberdeenshire.

Chicago police question two men in relation to the shooting of a 15-year-old girl who performed at US President Barack Obama's i

At least nine miners have been killed by an underground explosion in a coal mine in northern Russia, officials say.

At least 10 members of a Guinean military delegation die when their plane crashes in Liberia, officials say.

The sister of former Formula One driver David Coulthard has been found dead at her home in the south of Scotland.

Work restarts on the the tower in central London which was involved in the fatal helicopter crash.

At least four people are killed as a small plane crashes at Charleroi airport in Belgium, forcing it to close.

One person has died in a crash in Londonderry.

The parents of Hadiya Pendleton, a teenage girl shot dead days after appearing in President Obama's inauguration celebrations, h

At least 26 people are killed and more than 80 injured in a spate of car bombings in mainly Shia areas of Iraq, local officials

A man is killed and a woman is seriously injured in a car accident at Poyntzpass on Thursday evening.

At least 51 people have been killed in a high-speed collision between a bus and lorry north of the Zambian capital Lusaka, polic

Russian police shoot dead the last suspect wanted for involvement in a 2010 suicide bombing in Moscow, officials say.

Tunisian opposition Democratic Patriots politician Chokri Belaid is shot dead outside his home in the capital, Tunis, his brothe

A bus bombing that killed five Israelis and a driver in Bulgaria was most likely the work of Lebanon's Hezbollah militants, Bulg

A Bulgaria suicide bomb that killed five Israelis and a bus driver is blamed on Hezbollah militants carrying Australian and Cana

A blast that killed 37 people at the Mexico City headquarters of state oil company Pemex was caused by a build-up of gas, the at

At least 19 people are killed in a suicide bombing attack in northern Iraq which targeted pro-government militia, officials say.

Paraguayan politician Lino Oviedo, who was running for president in the upcoming elections, has died in a helicopter crash north

A priest urges the families and friends of those involved in a fatal knife attack on a boy in central London to name the culprit

At least 16 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in a suicide attack in northern Iraq.

Chris Kyle, former US Navy seal, Iraq veteran and author of a book about the mind of a sniper, is shot dead on a Texas shooting

At least 30 people are killed as a police headquarters in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk is attacked by a suicide bomber and gunmen, p

A teenage girl found dead in a Blackpool alleyway was stabbed in the head before attempts were made to set her body on fire, pol

More than 150 nightclubs, restaurants and bars in Brazil are declared unsafe and closed by authorities, following a fire that ki

At least 25 people have been killed and another 100 injured in Mexico City after a blast at the headquarters of state oil compan

At least one person has been killed in a blast outside the US embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara, with reports that it was a

The mother of a teenager killed by an elderly driver welcomes rule changes on stripping licences from those who pose a risk.

At least 12 people are killed and dozens injured in a bomb attack outside a mosque in the north-western Pakistani town of Hangu,

Rescuers work overnight to find trapped survivors after a blast at the Mexico City headquarters of the state oil company, Pemex,

A truck carrying fireworks explodes on a highway in central China, causing part of the road to collapse and leaving at least fiv

A 23-year-old driver is killed in a car crash in southern Scotland that also leaves his 21-year-old passenger in hospital with s

Two polio vaccination workers have been killed in a landmine blast in the Kurram tribal region of north-west Pakistan, officials

The governor of Brazil's most populous state, Sao Paulo, orders tighter inspections of nightclubs and cinemas after a fire that

A man dies despite being being pulled from the sea by a lifeboat crew after falling into the water during a storm.

A car driver dies and 15 people are injured after a crash involving a coach and a car in Carmarthenshire.

A new report has found that the Army was not justified in shooting dead an IRA official in Belfast during the Troubles.

At least 20 people are feared dead as a passenger plane crashes near Kazakhstan's commercial capital, Almaty.

Brazilian police arrest three people in connection with a fire at a nightclub that killed 231 people in the southern city of San

231 people killed in a nightclub fire in Brazil

Brazil declares three days of national mourning for 231 people killed in a nightclub fire, reportedly started after a musician l

Helicopter crews try to reach hundreds of people trapped in Queensland, Australia, where three people have been killed by record

A 16-year-old boy is stabbed to death in the Pimlico area of central London.

A male and a female cyclist die after being hit by a car in Bristol, with police searching for the driver who left the scene.

More than 80 flood warnings are in place across Britain as snow thaws, and a canoeist dies after being pulled from a swollen riv

A canoeist who was rescued from a swollen river in North Yorkshire after getting into difficulties has died, police confirm.

At least 70 people have been killed in a fire at a night club in the southern Brazilian town of Santa Maria, local media say.

At least 10 people are killed, mainly police officers, as a roadside bomb detonates in the southern city of Kandahar, officials

Brazilian landless leader Cicero Guedes, who led the occupation of a disused sugar plant in Rio state, is killed by unidentified

At least 10 people have been killed and many others injured in a suicide attack in a busy market in the north-eastern city of Ku

Irish police say a detective shot dead in an attempted robbery near Dundalk in County Louth was killed without warning.

Sunni leaders threaten to launch attacks against the army in the western Iraqi province of Anbar after five protesters were shot

The wife of a man killed when two family cars crashed into a Derbyshire river describes how their children escaped and ran for h

A 42-year-old father has died after two cars carrying four members of the same family crashed into a Derbyshire river.

A man has died after two cars carrying four members of the same family crashed into a Derbyshire river.

A man dies after two cars carrying four members of the same family overturns into the River Wye in Derbyshire.

Britain's relations with Kenya are under strain over an incident in which a Kenyan civilian was shot and killed during a militar

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) admits a health and safety breach over the fatal shooting of one of its officers in a training e

The police confirm that a man has died in a house fire in Magilligan in County Londonderry.

A 72-year-old woman dies after a two-car collision in Lisnaskea in County Fermanagh.

A man is confirmed dead after a fire at a semi-detached house in Derbyshire.

A man dies and two people are injured in a collision between a car and a bus in Coventry.

A 32-year-old man old man has died in a road accident between the village of Keady and Armagh city, the police say.

Pete Barnes, the pilot who was killed in a helicopter crash in central London, died from multiple injuries, a post-mortem examin

At least four people die and thousands are evacuated as flooding hits parts of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, shutting down of

A series of bomb attacks across Iraq has killed at least 12 people, most of them Shia pilgrims, officials say.

Mexican athlete Noe Hernandez, who won a silver medal at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, dies two weeks after being shot in a bar

At least 25 people die as a block of flats collapses in Alexandria, Egypt, a day after a fatal train crash near Cairo led to cri

At least five people have been killed and four others wounded in a shooting at a restaurant in the town of Garissa in eastern Ke

Thousands of Kurds gather in Istanbul as the bodies of activists shot dead in Paris return, amid reports of a third day of Turki

More than 20 people have been killed in near-simultaneous car bomb blasts in the Syrian city of Idlib, government officials and

A man described as Russia's top gangster is shot dead leaving a restaurant in central Moscow, reportedly by a sniper.

Benjamin Brooks-Dutton's wife Desreen was killed in a car accident two months ago. Now he has set up a blog to help bereaved fam

A suicide bomb attack on Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security building in Kabul leaves several dead and dozens hurt, o

A helicopter crashes into a crane at the top of a building in Vauxhall in central London.

The mother of a British boy shot in the Newtown school massacre weeps as she recalls his death, and his father urges greater US

At least 10 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a political office in Kirkuk in northern Iraq, officials say.

The parents of a British-born boy killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting have said they plan to stay in Newtown despite the de

Thousands of Kurds attend a memorial near Paris for three activists shot dead in the city, amid reports of new Turkish air strik

Manslaughter charges are dropped against a fireworks display organiser after a crash on the M5 motorway left seven dead.

A suicide bomber kills a Sunni member of Iraq's parliament, Eifan Saadoun al-Issawi, along with at least two bodyguards in Fallu

An explosion hits a university in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, with unconfirmed reports that at least 15 people have been

A 17-year-old Palestinian is shot dead by Israeli forces in the village of Budrus near the West Bank barrier.

A British man killed in Kenya on Saturday was a special constable with the Metropolitan Police, the force says.

A 64-year-old man has been killed in a knife attack in Ballymena, County Antrim.

A 19-month-old boy is killed, and a man and a woman injured, in a road accident in County Fermanagh.

Gunmen in Guatemala kill the mayor of the town of Jutiapa as President Otto Perez Molina hails "a historic decline in violence".

A California boy who shot his neo-Nazi father dead at point-blank range as he slept at age 10 is found criminally responsible fo

Two Big Issue sellers who were stabbed to death in front of shoppers in Birmingham were probably known to their attacker, police

An eight-year-old British girl is shot dead, and three other people are injured, when a man opens fire inside a store in a rural

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls on French President Francois Hollande to explain why he previously met one of the Kurdish

Hundreds of people may have witnessed two men being stabbed to death in Birmingham city centre, police say.

War photographer Paul Conroy, who was injured in a bomb attack in Syria which killed war correspondent Marie Colvin, vows to ret

As the Pakistani province of Balochistan announces three days of mourning after 92 people were killed in bomb blasts, details em

French police hunt the killers of three Kurdish activists - including a co-founder of the militant PKK group - who were found sh

A Pakistani soldier has been shot dead by Indian troops near the dividing line in the disputed territory of Kashmir, Pakistan's

Three Kurdish activists - among them a co-founder of the militant PKK group - are shot dead in Paris, but no motive has yet been

A British soldier has been shot dead and six others injured by a rogue member of the Afghan National Army.

A psychiatric patient who killed her mother attacked two women with a butcher's knife as they were going to work, the Old Bailey

Two Indian soldiers are killed by Pakistani troops in the disputed Kashmir region between the two countries, Indian officials sa

A Senegalese man dies after setting himself on fire on Monday outside the official residence of President Macky Sall in the capi

A British soldier has been shot dead by a suspected rogue member of the Afghan National Army in Helmand, the Ministry of Defence

A 13-year-old girl dies in south London after the car she was travelling in was hit by another vehicle being pursued by police.

An 86-year-old pedestrian dies after she is involved in a collision with a car in Old Colwyn on Saturday night, say North Wales

Indian and Pakistani troops exchange fire across the Line of Control in disputed Kashmir, with Pakistan saying one of its soldie

Four people, including a gunman, are found dead following a shooting incident and stand-off with police in Aurora, in the US sta

A private plane crashes near Grenoble airport in south-eastern France, killing five people on board, French police say.

Police say they have traced the man they believe was driving a car involved in a fatal crash in West Lothian on New Year's Day.

Up to 15 cats have died and some others have escaped following a fire at a cattery in Staffordshire.

A fire that broke out at a private orphanage in China's northern Henan province leaves at least seven children dead, state-run m

At least nine people have been killed and many injured by a car bomb at a petrol station in Damascus, say activists.

South Africa's Olympic mountain biker Burry Stander dies in a road accident while on a training ride.

A gunman opens fire in the town of Kawit, south of the Philippine capital Manila, killing at least five people before being shot

Two men killed in a head-on collision in Northamptonshire were brothers, police reveal.

A 34-year-old man has died after the car he was in left the road and struck a tree in West Lothian.

A 17-year-old youth dies in hospital after a road incident involving a car in Wrexham early on New Year's Day, say police.

Five people including a child die in an apartment fire in Gennevilliers, a northern suburb of Paris.

A British tourist has been killed in Thailand on New Year's Eve, says the Foreign Office.

A 74-year-old US landlord shoots dead two teenage tenants after an argument about snow-shovelling, police say.

The body of an elderly woman is found following a fire at a house in Aberdeen, Grampian Police has confirmed.

A man dies in hospital after being found lying critically injured on a road in Swansea.

At least four people die as a Russian plane overshoots the runway at a Moscow airport, breaking up and coming to rest on a main

A Russian passenger plane has crashed into a main road after overshooting a runway at a Moscow airport, killing at least four pe

Fire chiefs warn people to check their smoke alarms after the third fire death in the Strathclyde area during the festive period

Families of dozens of Afghan civilians killed in a 2009 airstrike sue the German government for 3.3m euros (£2.7m; $4.3m) in dam

The sister and widow of two Colombian drug barons from the Norte del Valle cartel is shot dead in the northeast of the country.

A complementary medicine practitioner from Greater Manchester dies after a road accident in Dubai.

An explosion believed to have been caused by a grenade kills one person and seriously injures two at a medical university in Che

A Muslim spiritual leader is shot dead in the Russian Caucasus republic of North Ossetia.

At least one person is killed as an explosion in a warehouse storing fireworks sparks a major fire in Lagos, Nigeria's largest c

A 23-year-old man from Cambridgeshire died on Christmas Day following a multi-vehicle accident on the A14 in Suffolk, say police

At least two people have been killed and another 11 injured after a plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Burma, offi

An encrypted World War II message found in a fire place strapped to the remains of a dead carrier pigeon remains a mystery, as t

Christmas services have been held in Newtown in Connecticut, where 20 children and six members of staff were shot dead at a loca

An unspecified number of people have died in a crash on the M6 motorway between junctions 14 and 15, Staffordshire Police say.

Residents of a Philippine shanty town brawl with firefighters and beat one person to death, as a Christmas day blaze left hundre

Residents of a Greater Manchester street destroyed by a gas blast that killed a toddler are unable to return home for Christmas.

A plane carrying more than 60 passengers, including many foreigners, crash lands in Burma, killing a young child and a motorcycl

Two people are shot dead in the town of Webster in New York state, with US media reporting that they were firefighters respondin

At least six members of the Afghan security forces - one of them an American shot by a female police officer - are killed by Afg

Three people have been killed in a road accident on the A68 in the Scottish Borders, police confirm.

A Taliban suicide bomber has killed a senior provincial minister, Bashir Ahmad Bilour, and seven others at a political rally in

A man dies in hospital following a crash between a lorry and several cars on the M4 on the outskirts of Cardiff.

A man dies in a fire at a house in Cookstown, County Tyrone, the police say.

A suicide bomber has killed at least seven people at a political rally in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, police s

A woman at a bus stop was killed when she was hit by a car which minutes earlier had collided with another vehicle in south Lond

A man is stabbed to death in front of his girlfriend as he walked home from a night out in South Shields.

At least 39 people have been killed in fresh clashes between rival communities in the Tana River district of Kenya's Coast provi

At least 55 people are believed to have drowned after a boat capsizes off the coast of Somalia, the UN says.

Family and friends pay their final respects to Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera, 10 days after her death in a plane crash.

US students in Newtown, Connecticut return to school classes after a mass school shooting on Friday that killed 20 children and

Four female Pakistani polio vaccination workers have been shot dead in the country's largest city Karachi, police say.

A teenage girl dies in a fire at a children's home near Ellesmere, Shropshire.

At least nine young girls are killed and two others injured in a landmine explosion in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.

Books of condolence for the 20 small children and six women shot dead in Newtown, Connecticut, are to be opened at Belfast City

A cat dies in a house fire after a cooker was accidentally turned on by an ironing board which was left leaning up against it.

At least 16 people are killed and dozens injured in a car bomb explosion at a market in the Khyber tribal region of north-west P

At least nine people have been killed and dozens wounded in a series of bomb blasts in northern Iraq, police say.

A 33-year old fisherman from Peterlee who was pulled from the water after he was swept out to sea on Saturday has died, police h

A fisherman who was rescued after he was swept out to sea at Horden with a another man has died, police confirm.

Three suspected Taliban and a policeman are killed in a shoot-out in Peshawar, officials say, a day after an attack on the city'

The BBC's Franz Strasser talks to Newtown, Connecticut residents about the shooting that left 27 people dead.

The governor of Nigeria's Kaduna state, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, is killed in a helicopter crash in the southern delta region, hi

A crew member dies after a standby vessel in the North Sea was damaged by a large wave.

The United States is in mourning following a shooting at a town in Connecticut in which 20 young children and six adults were ki

US President Barack Obama appeals for "meaningful action" in the wake of a shooting that left 20 young children dead at a Connec

Students at a US primary school are evacuated as police respond to reports of a shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

A US soldier has been killed in a suicide bomb attack at a Nato airbase outside the Afghan city of Kandahar.

A car bomb has killed 16 people in the Qatana suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus, according to state media, which blamed "ter

A gunman who shot dead two people at a shopping centre in Portland, Oregon, had no connection to his victims, police say.

A man is fatally shot in the head at a busy Manhattan intersection near New York City's Central Park.

One person dies in a crash involving two lorries, two vans and five cars on the M6 southbound in Cheshire.

Mexican-American singer Jenni Rivera has died in a plane crash in northern Mexico, her father has confirmed.

A man is shot dead and at least 17 houses bombed in a fresh spate of violence on France's Mediterranean island of Corsica.

A man dies shortly after being struck by a vehicle on Edinburgh's Dundas Street in the early hours of Saturday.

At least two people are killed in an explosion near a mosque in a predominantly Somali area of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the R

A Bangladeshi garment factory where a blaze last month killed at least 110 people did not have a valid fire safety certificate,

Police have said a letter bomb found inside a post box in Clough, County Down, was capable of causing death or serious injury.

Former Thai leader Abhisit Vejjajiva faces charges over the death of a taxi driver shot by soldiers during mass protests in Bang

Four sailors have died and seven remain missing after a cargo ship sank in the North Sea off Belgium following a collision, offi

Sixteen men and boys killed in Cardiff's only mining disaster are remembered following a campaign for a memorial of their deaths

At least 31 people are killed or wounded in a blast and clashes between Islamists and troops from Somalia's Puntland region, off

A man whose body was found in a lake in the West Midlands had had his throat cut, police say.

Friends of a council leader recall how he telephoned them moments after shooting his wife dead and just before he shot himself.

A picture emerges of the volatile relationship involving an NFL player who shot dead his girlfriend before taking his own life a

The wife of a Norfolk council leader believed to have been killed by her husband was shot with one of her own guns, police say.

An axe-wielding Palestinian man has been shot dead by Israeli security forces in the West Bank, Israeli officials say.

Part of the M4 near Bristol is likely to be closed for the rest of the day after a motorist died in a crash, police say.

A man is killed in a "cold-blooded" shooting in Liverpool in what police believe was a targeted attack.

The leader of North Norfolk District Council and his wife are found shot dead in Cromer.

The Kansas City Chiefs host an NFL game at the stadium where just a day earlier one of their players killed himself after shooti

Peasant leader Vidal Vega, head of a movement involved in a bloody land dispute in the east of Paraguay, is shot dead.

A car bomb has killed at least 15 people in the Syrian city of Homs, state media report, as fighting continues in the capital Da

Police say the death of Victoria Sloss, whose body was found on the bank of the River Clyde, was not suspicious.

Taliban suicide bombers have killed four Afghan soldiers and wounded Nato troops in an attack on a joint US-Afghan airbase in ea

Police are treating the death of a woman whose body was found near the River Clyde in Glasgow as "unexplained".

A player for the Kansas City Chiefs American football team kills himself at a training ground, and is linked to an earlier shoot

A male motorist aged in his 30s dies after a crash on the A97 near Huntly in Aberdeenshire.

A teenage girl who was hit by a tram in Nottinghamshire on Tuesday has died, police say.

A health board is severely criticised by a watchdog after a woman died of a blood clot two days after she was discharged from ho

At least 16 people die in a double bombing in the predominantly Shia Muslim city of Hilla, south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, o

A Saudi diplomat has been shot dead in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, officials say.

A man admits causing the death of a toddler in a gas explosion in Greater Manchester.

A man dies after a fire broke out at a property in Brighton believed to have been used by squatters.

At least 20 people have been killed and many injured by two bomb explosions in a south-eastern district of Syria's capital, Dama

Officials say the situation is stabilising in a north Wales community where rescuers found an elderly woman dead as they evacuat

At least 19 people have been killed in the Iraqi capital Baghdad in three separate bomb attacks in predominantly Shia areas, pol

One person has been found dead as rescue crews move people to safety from a town devastated by floods in north Wales.

Fourteen people are killed and eight injured in a major fire at a workshop for disabled people in south-western Germany.

A man and woman drowned and their 16-year-old son is missing after trying to rescue their dog from being swept away in the ocean

Activists in Syria say a government MiG fighter jet has dropped a cluster bomb on a playground east of Damascus, leaving 10 chil

A fire breaks out in a multi-storey clothes factory in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, two days after another clothes factory blaze

Grammy-winning jazz bassist Marcus Miller and 10 members of his band are injured and their driver killed in a tour bus crash in

More than 800 homes are flooded, and two people are killed, after a band of heavy rain and strong wind sweeps across England and

More than one hundred people are now known to have died in a fire that swept through a clothes factory in Bangladesh.

More than 100 people are now known to have died in a fire in a clothes factory on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka.

Police in Italy say at least six people have been killed after the van they were travelling in was struck by a train as it cross

A woman critically injured in a road collision between a car and a mini-bus on Friday morning dies in hospital.

A roadside bomb kills eight people, seven of them children, near a Shia Muslim procession in north-western Pakistan.

Former Puerto Rican boxing champion Hector "Macho" Camacho dies in hospital after being taken off life support, four days after

A third Filipino dies as a result of last week's fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico hours after his family arrive fro

A man dies after his car is trapped in floodwater, as heavy rain and winds cause travel problems in parts of England.

Israeli soldiers kill a Palestinian man close to the Gaza-Israel border, say Palestinian officials - the first killing since Wed

A man dies after his car is trapped in flood water in Somerset, after strong winds and heavy rain sweep across the UK, with more

A man in Somerset dies after his vehicle became submerged in water caused by flooding after torrential rain.

Australian author Bryce Courtenay, who shot to fame with The Power of One, has died at the age of 79, his family say.

Two people die and dozens are injured after a Thanksgiving pile-up involving some 100 vehicles on a foggy motorway in the US sta

Doctors in Puerto Rico declare former boxing champion Hector "Macho" Camacho brain dead, following his shooting in a drive-by at

The case of a 74-year-old man who drowned in a river after going missing from hospital has been highlighted in a report criticis

Twelve Alsatians, including eight puppies, are killed in a fire on a Greater Manchester farm.

At least 21 people are injured in an explosion on a bus in Tel Aviv, while 11 people are killed in Gaza, as efforts to reach a c

A Yemeni military plane has crashed in the capital, Sanaa, killing all 10 people on board, officials say.

Essex Police apologises to the family of killed officer PC Ian Dibell after his pension details were mistakenly published by the

Two chefs from Heston Blumenthal's Michelin-starred restaurant The Fat Duck are killed in a car accident in Hong Kong.

Israeli air strikes have killed at least 100 Palestinians in Gaza in six days of violence, Hamas officials say, as militants con

Scores of Kenyan troops go on the rampage, beating residents of the eastern town of Garissa, after three soldiers are shot dead

A man from County Down has died in a road accident in Australia.

Nigeria's military dismisses as fake a video said to show a soldier shooting dead a captive at close range in the north, where i

The family of three women shot dead last new year by Michael Atherton have been speaking about their ordeal on the night of the

Israel maintains air strikes on Gaza and militants continue to fire rockets into Israel as the fifth day of unrest becomes the d

A Denbighshire cinema is staging a series of events to celebrate the life of a former worker who died in a house fire with four

At least 11 people are killed in a fire in a shanty town outside the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka which also left hundreds homeless

Fifty young children and the driver of the school bus they were on were killed when their vehicle was hit by a train in central

A train driver and 50 young children have been killed in a collision between a school bus and a train in central Egypt, accordin

Egypt's transport minister resigns after 50 children and a driver were killed in a crash involving a nursery school bus and a tr

Two people die and a third is treated for burns after a fire on waste ground in Streatham, south London.

The body of a British soldier shot dead by a rogue member of the Afghan army is flown back to the UK.

A reward of up to £10,000 is on offer to find information about how a family died in a fatal house fire in Essex.

Three people have been killed in southern Israel by rockets fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, amid escalating

Heavy flooding in Italy kills four people in Tuscany, reports say, as downpours cause power cuts and transport disruptions.

At least one person is killed after militants fire rockets into the Afghan capital, Kabul.

A 25-year-old man dies after being found stabbed in a shopping precinct in the West Midlands.

A man who was killed during a "violent" attack at his south-west London home was stabbed to death, tests show.

A mother and her newborn baby were among six people killed when a roadside bomb explodes in eastern Afghanistan, officials say.

Dozens of soldiers have been killed in twin explosions in the southern Syrian city of Deraa, activists said.

Seventeen Turkish soldiers have been killed in a helicopter crash in the south-east of the country, Turkish officials say.

A security guard is reported to have shot and killed himself inside the Swedish prime minister's residence.

Nearly 30 people are killed and dozens injured in central Burma when a train carrying liquid fuel comes off the rails and bursts

A Palestinian boy has been killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources say, and Israel says it is chec

Police say a house in which a mother and five children died in a fire had been burgled on the same night

At least five Afghan soldiers are killed and several others injured after a roadside bomb explodes in the eastern province of La

A spate of bomb attacks rocks the Syrian capital Damascus leaving several people dead, activists say, as violence continues acro

A police officer who killed a man suspected of being part of an armed gang in London had shot dead two other people earlier in h

More than two million Nigerians have been forced from their homes by this year's floods, which have left 363 people dead, offici

At least 25 people have been killed by a car bomb that exploded at the entrance to an Iraqi army base near Baghdad, police and m

South African police are accused of planting weapons on the bodies of workers shot dead during strikes at the Marikana platinum

Strathclyde Police confirms that a police officer has died following a firearms incident at Baird Street police station in Glasg

A number of people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in central Syria, state media and activists say, as opposition figu

The father of a Fife miner who was killed at a mine in New Zealand said he was "disappointed and angry" to hear the gas blast wa

Rwanda accuses DR Congo soldiers of 'provocation' after a group crossed the border and one was shot dead, further raising tensio

A woman dies and three people are taken to hospital following a house fire in Birmingham.

Two people have been killed and a third seriously injured by bomb blasts in two parts of the Bahraini capital, Manama, police sa

A 21-year-old woman dies in hospital after a car accident near Portadown, County Armagh, at the weekend.

An 11-year-old child is killed when Kurdish rebels set off a car bomb in the south-eastern Turkish town of Semdinli, says PM Rec

A teenage boy dies in hospital following a hit-and-run crash in Greater Manchester.

A 12-year-old British boy who was found dead after going missing on a French island drowned, tests confirm.

Three Egyptian policemen have been shot dead by gunmen in the northern Sinai city of El Arish.

A motorist suffers fatal injuries in a single-vehicle crash in the South of Scotland.

Anti-terror officers on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi shoot dead one suspected militant and arrest another in the district o

A communist-era dissident in Albania dies three weeks after setting himself on fire in a protest over delays in government compe

At least 18 people are killed after attackers open fire at a petrol station in south-western Pakistan, triggering a huge blaze,

Four Afghan policemen are shot dead by colleagues in Helmand, police say, in what appears to be the latest in a series of inside

Dozens of young men have been shot dead in Nigeria by the military in Maiduguri, residents in the north-eastern city tell the BB

Thousands of lab rodents have drowned after Hurricane Sandy caused a university centre in New York to flood.

A man has died after the bicycle he was riding was in collision with a car in Portadown, County Armagh.

A man has died following a crash on the M1 motorway in Northern Ireland.

Two miners are shot dead during a confrontation at a pit in South Africa, as industrial disputes continue to dog the industry.

About 120 people - many of them Rohingya Muslims from Burma - are missing after their boat capsized in the Bay of Bengal, Bangla

Twenty-five people have been killed by an electrical fire at a wedding in the Abqaiq region of eastern Saudi Arabia, local media

Two British soldiers have been shot dead at a checkpoint in Afghanistan by a man wearing a local police uniform, the Ministry of

A senior air force general is shot dead as he leaves a house in a Damascus suburb, Syrian state television reports.

Two Nato soldiers have been shot dead in Afghanistan by a man wearing a local police uniform, the International Security Assista

A popular Somali poet and songwriter, who was critical of Islamist fighters and wrote songs urging people to join the police, is

Attackers shoot dead an imam and two of his male relations as they drive to a mosque in the troubled Russian North Caucasus regi

New York is hit by severe flooding as cyclone Sandy hits the eastern US, causing storm surges, power cuts and leaving at least 1

Kenyan politician Shem Kwega is killed and his wife wounded in a drive-by shooting in the western city of Kisumu, prompting stre

A policeman accused of causing the death of a taxi driver by dangerous driving admits that he "made an error of judgement".

A male motorcyclist has been killed after hitting a deer and a minibus on the A923 in Tayside, police say.

At least 10 people have been killed in a car bombing in the Syrian capital Damascus, state media report, on the fourth day of a

The son of a woman killed in the Grayrigg train crash says he has forgiven the engineer who forgot to check the tracks.

A motorist has died in hospital after a road crash in which a motorcyclist was killed on the A465 Heads of the Valleys road in M

The ashes of a woman who was stabbed and beaten at her Essex home are stolen during a burglary at her sister's house.

A cyclist in Sunderland who had stopped to exchange details with a driver after a collision was fatally struck by another car, p

Several people have been killed or injured in an explosion during mass at a Catholic church in the northern Nigerian city of Kad

At least 30 people are killed in a series of bomb and gun attacks in Iraq, primarily aimed at Shia Muslims and coinciding with t

A motorcyclist is killed in a three-vehicle crash which closed the A465 in Monmouthshire.

A Royal Marine and an Army medic who died after being injured in Afghanistan were not killed by British forces, the Ministry of

At least 24 people have been killed in flooding and landslides by tropical storm Son-Tinh in the Philippines, officials say.

Cardiff City striker Craig Bellamy is to match a £4,000 fans' collection for the children of a woman killed in a series of hit-a

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At least 37 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack at a mosque in northern Afghanistan, officials say.

A senior British oil executive has been shot dead in a suburb of the Belgian capital Brussels, it emerges.

At least 14 people have drowned and another 17 are rescued after a boat believed to be carrying African migrants starts sinking

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Israel carries out air raids over Gaza City, killing three militants, after a night of rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israe

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Deep seated "bad blood" was the background to the fatal stabbing of a teenager in London on Boxing Day, a prosecutor has alleged

The oldest surviving pilot from the Battle of Britain, who was shot down in his Spitfire and wounded in 1940, has died aged 99.

Killer taxi driver Christopher Halliwell is urged by his daughter to "tell the truth" over the death of Becky Godden.

Police are granted extra time to question a man and a woman on suspicion of murder after a fire killed a mother, her son, nephew

Several soldiers are killed in a bomb attack by suspected militant Islamists in Nigeria's north-eastern town of Potiskum, an arm

Dr Ahmed al-Saffar - the uncle of Mrs al-Hilli, who was killed in a shooting in the French alps last month - says the event has

Three women are killed and four injured at a beauty spa in Wisconsin, before the suspected gunman is found dead by police.

Syrian state media says several people have been killed in a car bomb explosion in a Christian area of the capital, Damascus.

International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi meets Syria's President Assad to discuss a temporary ceasefire, amid reports of 10 peo

Firefighters remain at the scene of a major house fire in Newtownbutler, County Fermanagh, in which one man has died.

The brother of Karina Menzies, who was killed during the Cardiff hit-and-runs, says she "saved the lives" of her two children.

Lebanese opposition leader Saad Hariri calls for all citizens to attend a funeral for security chief Wissam al-Hassan, who was k

A 20-year-old man dies and another is taken to hospital with multiple knife wounds after a double stabbing in south-east London.

Grampian Police believe a woman found dead next to the A90 was hit by a vehicle.

At least 11 people are killed and about 48 injured in bomb blasts and shootings in Iraq, local officials say.

Police investigating the shooting of a British family in the French Alps believe the cyclist also found dead at the scene was ki