Explosion News

Still grounded ... the Qantas 747, involved in the Manila mid-air explosion, has crashed while being towed at Avalon Airport / AP Towed Qantas planes crash Staff stood down pending investigation Both jets ...

Taliban militants attacked Pakistani tribal leaders near the Afghan border, triggering a gunbattle and an explosion that killed seven people, an official said Tuesday.

The clash happened late Monday in Bajur, a lawless region in Pakistan's northwest where troops and tribal militias have been battling Taliban guerrillas for more than three months.

Israr Khan, a government representative in the semi-autonomous region, said Taliban gunmen surrounded a group of elders from the Mamund tribe in a fortress-like compound in the village of Inayat Kili.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: A roadside bomb aimed at Afghan soldiers in southern Afghanistan killed four civilians Monday, while a suicide bomb attack in the same region killed three other people, an official said.

The sole survivor of a plane crash Sunday that killed seven others told his rescuers that he scrambled away as the wreckage exploded behind him.

A car carrying one of Israel's top mafia kingpins exploded as it traveled in central Tel Aviv on Monday, killing him and threatening to unleash an all-out war in Israel's increasingly violent underworld.

Israeli police officials identified the dead man as Yaakov Alperon _ known informally as 'Don Alperon' _ the head of one of the country's most powerful crime families. The bloodied body was wearing the same polo shirt Alperon was seen sporting earlier in the day at a Tel Aviv courthouse.

Medics said three bystanders were also lightly wounded in the explosion, including a 13-year-old boy.

Bombardiers Michael Walsh, with binoculars, and Matt Beaupre, who both narrowly escaped a booby-trap bomb Sunday, man a position in an outpost after sniper fire on Nov.

Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad in India has claimed that a serving Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit, who was arrested in connection with the Malegaon blast, was also involved in 2007 ...

The chemical company where an explosion critically burned two workers has reached a settlement with the federal government over workplace safety violations.

Two minor girls picking garbage at a rubbish dump were injured when a crude bomb concealed in a Pan Parag Pan Masala can went off, police said.

THREE people were killed and another left fighting for her life after their car crashed during a police pursuit in Oldham early today.

At least 12 miners have been killed, and 11 others injured, in two explosions in a coal mine in southwest Romania.

A British soldier has been killed by a road bomb in southern Afghanistan. The Gurkha battalion has had two soldiers killed in less than two weeks Photo: REUTERS The Gurkha soldier was taking part in a routine ...

Nobody knows what to do with him now.

The small child with a bullet-shattered wrist was crying alone in a house full of corpses when he was found last week by a stranger fleeing a gunbattle between rebels and pro-government militias in eastern Congo.

The man carried the boy from the village of Kiwanja to a tiny hospital several miles away and the two- or three-year-old infant spent the night screaming and his days silent, medical staff said.

One week later, the boy's name is about all they know.

Kosovo police, KPS, still have no suspects and do not know what type of explosive device was used in Friday's attack on the ICO premises in Pristina.

Two explosions in a coal mine in southwestern Romania Saturday killed eight miners and four emergency workers, officials said.

Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu said the explosion that killed the miners in the coal-rich Jiu Valley occurred Saturday afternoon at a depth of 800 feet (250 meters).

Later, a second explosion killed the four rescue workers, said Ilie Paducel, mayor of the town of Petrila where the mine is located.

Hundreds of relatives gathered at the mine after the first explosion, Realitatea TV reported. Romanian President Traian Basescu said he would travel to the site later Saturday.

A low-intensity explosion in the district court premises here created panic Saturday, a day after a similar blast occurred in the complex.

An explosion in the northern Gaza Strip killed a Palestinian militant and critically wounded another, medical workers said on Saturday.

Duke University has been fined $35,000 for safety violations related to a steam pipe explosion that killed a maintenance worker in May.

Unstable rubble hampered efforts Friday to determine what caused a thunderous explosion that killed one person, injured several and leveled a downtown restaurant and a store in the southern Colorado city of ...

This much is agreed _ a double bombing in Baghdad struck a school bus and those responding to the first blast.