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The two-year-old boy who was stuck in an abandoned borewell near Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu since Friday, is dead, an official said on Tuesday. (Photo: File)

After 75 hours of rescue ops, 2-year-old TN boy trapped in borewell found dead

Earlier on Monday, a heavy German-made drilling machine was deployed to dig a parallel shaft to reach the boy.

29 Oct 2019 8:45 AM

Australia's most notorious serial killer Ivan Milat, whose murder of seven young backpackers in the 1990s terrified the country, has died in hospital, officials said Sunday. (Photo: AP)

Australian backpacker killer Ivan Milat, sentenced for life, dies in jail

Milat was serving consecutive life sentences for the brutal killing spree which took place near Sydney between 1989 and 1992.

27 Oct 2019 1:22 PM

The United States has carried out an operation targeting ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, a US official told news agency Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. (Representational Image)

ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may have killed himself during US strike: reports

Trump was expected to make the statement in the White House Diplomatic Reception Room.

27 Oct 2019 10:54 AM

Torrential rain that caused flooding and mudslides in towns east of Tokyo left at least seven people dead and added damage in areas still recovering from recent typhoons, officials said Saturday. (Photo: AFP)

Torrential rains, landslides kill 10 in Japan, 3 reported missing

Two weeks ago, Typhoon Hagibis caused widespread flooding and left more than 80 people dead or presumed dead across Japan.

26 Oct 2019 11:31 AM

A court in Bangladesh sentenced 16 people to death on Thursday over the murder of a 19-year-old female student burnt alive in April that provoked outrage across the country. (Photo: AFP)

16 sentenced to death in Bangladesh for burning 19-year-old woman alive

Nusrat Jahan Rafi was doused in kerosene and set on fire after refusing to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against the head teacher.

24 Oct 2019 12:57 PM

Officials in the western Mexican state of Michoacan say at least five people have died in the crash of a small plane. (Photo: AP)

5 dead in small plane crash in western Mexico

Officials did not provide the identities of the victims or where the flight originated.

24 Oct 2019 11:51 AM

A nine-year-old girl from Hyderabad was crushed to death after she got stuck within the narrow space between her building’s elevator and its shaft on Friday, the police said. (Representational Image)

9-year-old Hyderabad girl's leg gets stuck as lift begins to ascend, crushed to death

The girl was taking the lift to her house, which is on the third floor in Hastinapuram North Extension Colony at around 12:30 pm.

20 Oct 2019 11:03 AM

Five people were killed after an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale struck Philippines' southern province of North Cotabato on Wednesday, local officials said on Thursday. (Representational Image)

5 killed in Philippines earthquake; over 200 aftershocks registered

At least 60 others also injured in Tulunan town in North Cotabato, and in Magsaysay and Digos in Davao del Sur, media reports suggest.

17 Oct 2019 9:06 AM

One person died and at least 18 others were injured Saturday when the top floors of a New Orleans hotel that was under construction collapsed, officials said. (Photo: AP)

1 dead, 18 injured as under-construction hotel collapses in US

The New Orleans fire department received reports at 9:12 am local time that the Hard Rock Hotel in downtown New Orleans had collapsed.

13 Oct 2019 11:33 AM

Japan's military scrambled Sunday to rescue people trapped by flooding in the aftermath of powerful Typhoon Hagibis, which killed at least eleven people, caused landslides and burst rivers. (Photo: AP)

11 dead, thousands in shelters as typhoon hagibis hammers Japan

Japan's military deployed helicopters to rescue people seen in aerial footage standing on balconies waving towels to attract attention.

13 Oct 2019 9:59 AM

At least 14 people were killed in a passenger bus accident in Sindhupalchowk district of Nepal on Friday. (Representational Image)

14 killed, 98 injured in bus accident in Nepal

Police have suspected that the bus was overloaded and that the number of passengers on-board at time of accident might have exceeded 120.

12 Oct 2019 1:18 PM

A five-month-old baby, who was injured during a fight between his mother and father, died in east Delhi's Kondli area, the police said on Wednesday. (Representational Image)

Baby dies after getting hit during fight between parents in Delhi: Police

According to the postmortem report, the baby died due to blood clotting in the brain, the police said.

10 Oct 2019 11:24 AM

The death toll from a powerful earthquake that rocked Indonesia's remote Maluku islands has risen to 23, the disaster agency said Friday, as more than 15,000 people were evacuated to shelters. (Representational Image)

Indonesia quake death toll rises to 23: official

Among the confirmed dead was an infant, with many killed by falling debris in and around quake-struck Ambon city.

27 Sep 2019 1:04 PM

The death toll from the 5.8-magnitude earthquake that jolted parts of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) on Tuesday evening, has mounted to 37. (Photo: ANI)

37 killed, over 500 injured as 5.8 magnitude earthquake hits Pakistan

Tremors were also felt across Delhi, Punjab and Haryana, however, no damages or injuries were reported.

26 Sep 2019 12:16 PM

Pakistani police say a bus has rammed into a hill after it breaks failed on a mountainous road, killing 22 passengers and injuring 15 in the country's northwest. (Representational Image)

22 killed, 15 injured in Pakistan as bus rammed into hill after break fail

Officer Abdul Wakil said the accident happened on Sunday in the Chilas distract, on the bus' route from Skardu to the city of Rawalpindi.

22 Sep 2019 11:59 AM

Emergency crews in the Houston area took advantage of receding floodwaters to begin to assess the damage from one of the wettest tropical cyclones in US history, a storm that led to the deaths of four men and displaced hundreds of people from their homes. (Representational Image)

Tropical storm Imelda Leaves 4 dead in Texas, several trapped

Nearly 123,000 vehicles normally cross the bridges each day, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.

21 Sep 2019 5:15 PM

At least eight people have been killed and 10 suffered injuries following a suicide attack at President Ashraf Ghani election campaign rally in Parwan district of Parwan on Tuesday. (Representational Image)

8 killed, 10 injured in suicide attack in Afghanistan's Parwan

The Taliban movement, which has been fighting the government for years, has threatened to disrupt the process.

17 Sep 2019 3:44 PM

A 10-year-old girl has died in the hospital, her family said in a statement on Monday, after she contracted a rare brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a Texas river. (Representational Image)

10-year-old US girl dies after contracting rare brain-eating amoeba while swimming

The first symptoms of the infection typically appear about a week after the amoeba enters the nose.

17 Sep 2019 2:27 PM

Toll in the tourist boat accident in river Godavari in Andhra Pradesh mounted to 19 as seven more bodies were retrieved on Tuesday. (Photo: ANI)

Death toll rises to 19 in Andhra boat tragedy

But taking out the boat that sank over 315 feet deep in the river is proving to be a herculean task, police said.

17 Sep 2019 1:50 PM

At least seven people were killed and another three injured when a small plane crashed in southwestern Colombia on Sunday, a firefighter said. (Photo: AFP)

Colombia plane crash kills seven, three injured

The cause of the crash was not known and an investigation was underway, Ganan said.

16 Sep 2019 8:17 AM

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