Accidents
A charter bus carrying high school students to a band camp careened off a New York highway and tumbled down an embankment, killing two adults and seriously injuring several others.
Four firefighters travelling home after battling British Columbia’s wildfires have died in a road crash.
Authorities say a crash involving a school van and a car in western Pennsylvania left a teenage girl dead and sent three other juveniles and two critically-injured adults to area hospitals.
Police in Slovenia say that a U.S. citizen has been killed and two others have been injured in a rafting accident.
An aircraft of the Italian acrobatic air team the Frecce Tricolori has crashed during a practice run in the northern Turin province.
A group of survivors of a deadly migrant shipwreck in southern Greece three months ago is suing authorities for failing to intervene to rescue passengers before their vessel capsized in international waters.
The wall of water several stories high smashed into apartment buildings, drowning entire families in minutes.
U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola’s husband has died in an airplane crash in western Alaska. It’s the latest fatality involving politicians or their loved ones in the nation’s largest state where flights are common because of a limited road system.
Public health officials are warning residents of flood-stricken central Greece to avoid using floodwater for domestic chores due to mounting fears of contamination.
The death toll in the boat accident in north-central Nigeria’s Niger State has risen to 28 and communities have mobilized in support of an intensified search for dozens still missing after the passenger boat capsized.
Officials say an elderly man who was cleaning debris from Hurricane Idalia in north Florida when a tree fell on him has been declared the state’s third death from the Category 3 storm.
A New Hampshire woman convicted of killing her best friend in a boat crash 15 years ago has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle new allegations that she interfered with a state environmental protection investigation at the marina she owns.
An accident inquiry says a damaged tail rotor was to blame for a helicopter crash that killed the owner of English soccer club Leicester and four others in 2018.
Police say a pickup truck smashed into a smaller pickup, killing four people in southern Michigan. The crash happened Monday 60 miles southwest of Detroit in Lenawee County’s Macon Township.
Felix Rosenqvist will end his two-year waiting game with Arrow McLaren Racing by moving on next year to drive for Meyer Shank Racing.
Hendrick Motorsports showed its strength to start the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs on Sunday night. 2021 series champion Kyle Larson took his first Southern 500 while top playoff seed William Byron finished fourth to keep his title chances strong.
Mohamed Al Fayed, the flamboyant Egypt-born businessman whose son was killed in a car crash with Princess Diana, has died, his family says. He was 94.
A Philippine university professor who became a peace negotiator and an Indian doctor who chose to work in a far-flung rural region to reach poor cancer patients are among the winners of this year’s Ramon Magsaysay Awards — regarded as Asia’s version of the Nobel Prize.
The man who is believed to have given Russian mercenary group Wagner its name has been buried at a military cemetery in Moscow.
Italian authorities say a speeding out-of-service train has slammed into a group of workers doing nighttime track maintenance, killing five of them.
A central Georgia sheriff responding to a call for service was killed when his car went off the road, hit a tree and overturned.
Massachusetts State Police say a forklift operator has died in an accident at Boston’s Logan International Airport.
Tesla is letting some drivers to use its Autopilot driver-assist system for extended periods without making them put their hands on the steering wheel, a development that has drawn concern from U.S. safety regulators.
Kremlin says ‘deliberate wrongdoing’ is a possible cause of the plane crash that killed Wagner chief
The Kremlin’s spokesperson says “deliberate wrongdoing” is among the possible causes of the plane crash that killed Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin last week.
A multi-truck crash has killed two people on a highway in Germany and released toxic substances. German news agency dpa says a truck transporting hazardous materials crashed into three other trucks on the A2 highway near the city of Magdeburg on Tuesday.
Hurricane Idalia hits Florida with 125 mph winds, flooding streets, snapping trees and cutting power
Hurricane Idalia tore into Florida with 125 mph winds, splitting trees in half, ripping roofs off hotels and turning small cars into boats.
The bodies of three U.S. Marines killed in a tiltrotor aircraft crash during a training exercise in Australia have been retrieved from the crash scene.
Skate Canada says former Canadian Olympic figure skater Alexandra Paul died in a collision involving seven vehicles in Ontario earlier this week. She was 31.
The final two months of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s life are shrouded in mystery. When the Russian mercenary leader staged a mutiny against the country’s military in June, President Vladimir Putin decried it as “treason” and vowed punishment.
The U.S. Marine Corps says at least three Marines have died and five have been critically injured when their Osprey aircraft crashed on a north Australian island during a training exercise.
A Marine Corps pilot has died in the crash of combat jet near a San Diego military base. The service says in statement Friday that the F/A-18D Hornet went down at 11:54 p.m.