3 Mar 2013

The accident happened at about 8pm in a commercial building at 480 King's Road. The lift dropped suddenly just after it had passed the first floor on the way up.

20 Feb 2013

Three months after the death of five boys in a rubbish bin in Guizhou province shocked the nation, five more boys have been killed in a similar incident in the same province. The boys, aged...

14 Feb 2013

Lecerf has filed a legal complaint after his Renault Laguna, which is adapted for disabled drivers, jammed at 200km/h and the brakes failed, forcing him to continue careering along a vast stretch...

6 Feb 2013

The announcement came four days after the blast, a delay that triggered much speculation about the cause of the blast at the complex that houses the offices of Pemex in the heart of Mexico City....

5 Feb 2013

An exhausted British-Australian expedition recreating Ernest Shackleton's 1916 crossing of the Southern Ocean in a small boat made landfall yesterday after a perilous 12-day journey. 

Efforts were being made last night to save the right foot of a recently sacked driving instructor - now at the centre of an industrial dispute - after he was knocked down by a car.

The death of an old man whose breathing hole was mistakenly covered with gauze was an accident, an inquest ruled yesterday.

But the verdict on Wang Keng-kao's 2011 death left his family...

The attempted cover-up of two recent industrial accidents in Shanxi dealt yet another blow to government credibility in China.

Russia has launched an investigation into the death of a 27-year-old man in an inflatable "zorb" ball that tumbled down a mountainside in a horrific accident that was caught on video.

Twenty-one people were injured, one critically, after a fire sparked by a gas explosion tore through a crowded restaurant at lunch hour yesterday. More than 200 others were evacuated.

A train driver was killed and another injured in a derailment yesterday during a test run on the second subway line in Kunming, Yunnan province.

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