A skydiver is fighting for his life after he crashed into a pole during a routine training jump. The 29-year-old man was taking part in a training course and was attempting a solo jump when the accident happened on Sunday afternoon at Toogoolwah north of Brisbane. Skydive Ramblers chief instructorContinue Reading
A woman wearing what appears to be leather lingerie has been charged with drink driving following a collision with an e-bike in Sydney’s Moore Park overnight. Emergency services were called to South Dowling Street in Sydney’s east at 3.45am after a collision between a Subaru sedan and an e-bike nearContinue Reading
BEIJING: Eleven people died in an accident at a coal mine in China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province on Tuesday, state media outlet CCTV said.The accident occurred at 3 p.m. (0700 GMT) at the Shuangyang coal mine of Heilongjiang Longmei Shuangyashan Mining Co, and is initially believed to have been caused byContinue Reading
Six people – including one infant – have been killed in the deadliest crash in the Northern Territory since 2007. The crash, involving a four-wheel drive and a road train, occurred on a single lane stretch of the Stuart Highway near Pine Creek, in the Katherine region, 225 kilometres southContinue Reading
KYIV: Seventeen apartment buildings were evacuated Saturday in a Russian city near the Ukrainian border after an explosive device was found at the site where a bomb accidentally dropped by a Russian warplane caused a powerful blast this week, authorities said. The bomb blast late Thursday rocked part of Belgorod,Continue Reading
ATHENS: Two trains collided head-on in Greece killing at least 32 people and injuring 85 late on Tuesday night, the fire brigade said, but the cause of the deadliest rail crash in Greece in decades remained unclear. An intercity passenger train travelling from Athens to the northern city of ThessalonikiContinue Reading
COOKE CITY: Two people were killed in New Year’s Eve avalanches in Montana and Colorado after heavy snow blanketed much of the West. Forecasters with the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center say two snowmobilers from Washington were headed uphill near Daisy Pass north of Cooke City, Montana, when one ofContinue Reading
ALMATY (KAZAKHSTAN): The plight of a city in Kazakhstan left without heating for over a week in temperatures that dropped to minus 30 degrees Celsius (minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit) has sparked anger and highlighted the deplorable state of the country’s Soviet-era infrastructure. This month the northeastern city of Ekibastuz, withContinue Reading