Police in Newburgh, New York say a mother distraught over some kind of a domestic fight drove her van into the Hudson River Tuesday night with three of her children inside. All four drowned. The twist is the woman let her 10-year-old son out of the minivan before she drove into the river.

The number of victims of the explosion in the Minsk subway has increased to 12 people. About 150 people have asked for medical help. Twenty-two people received serious injuries as a result of the explosion; they remain in critical condition

An explosion ripped through the subway of Minsk, the capital of Belarus. The cause of the explosion has not been determined yet, officials said. The explosion occurred at Oktyabrskaya station. This is the first time when such an incident takes place in the Minsk subway

A strong earthquake rattled Japan’s northeast coast and sparked a fresh tsunami alert, one month after the worst ever natural disaster devastated the country.

Dust and dirt whipped up by high winds blinded dozens of motorists on a north German highway on Friday, triggering a mass accident, which killed at least eight people and injured 60 others. The sudden sandstorm, which struck south of the eastern German coastal town of Rostock, reduced visibility on the A19 autobahn to zero in a matter of seconds.

One Royal Navy officer was shot dead and another critically injured after a guard opened fire on British’s flagship 1 billion pound nuclear submarine that carries Tomahawk cruise missiles, a media report said. Seaman Ryan Donovan, who has been held, is understood to have opened fire with an assault rifle after an argument on HMS Astute that was berthed in Southampton.

At least 13 people have died after a gunman opened fire in a school in western Rio de Janeiro. The vice-mayor of western Rio said 13 people had died in the shooting at Tasso da Silveira school, although it was not clear if that figure was accurate or included the attacker.

There has been an apparent decrease in the number of Manipur rebels sheltering in western Burma, according to a Chin news group which claims it may be a result of increased military cooperation …

The United Wa State Army and its ally National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) also called Mongla, were informed by the Burma Army yesterday, 28 April, to depart from their bases outside designated …

Chang Mai (Mizzima) - Burmese people joined two billion people across the globe to watch the United Kingdom's royal wedding on Friday, when Prince William of Wales and ordinary citizen Kate …