Oklahoma tornado kills at least 24
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA (BNO NEWS) -- At least 24 people have been confirmed dead after a tornado ripped through the state of Oklahoma, local authorities said Tuesday.
Monday's powerful tornado swept through Moore, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma [...]
Death toll in Bangladesh building collapse reaches 481
DHAKA, BANGLADESH (BNO NEWS) -- Rescue workers in Bangladesh have recovered the remains of dozens of people at the site where an eight-story factory building collapsed more than a week ago, local officials said on Friday, raising the confirmed [...]
Part of 9/11 landing gear found near Ground Zero
NEW YORK CITY (BNO NEWS) -- A piece of debris believed to be from one of the airliners that crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001, has been discovered wedged between two buildings in lower Manhattan, police [...]
Magnitude-5.6 quake kills 18, injures 130 in Afghanistan
JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN (BNO NEWS) -- A moderate earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday resulted in the deaths of at least 18 people, the presidential palace said on Thursday, adding that 130 others were injured and that hundreds [...]
Google adds Japan nuclear ghost town to Street View feature
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA (BNO NEWS) -- A Japanese city left deserted and off-limits after the earthquake and nuclear power plant crisis in March 2011 is now visible to the outside world after internet search giant Google added imagery Wednesday [...]
Moderate earthquake in SW China destroys 520 homes, injures 30
GUAN PING XIANG, CHINA (BNO NEWS) -- A moderate earthquake shook southwest China on Sunday afternoon, causing more than 500 homes to collapse and leaving 30 people injured, authorities said on Monday. More than 10,000 people in the affected [...]
Ivory Coast declares 3-day national mourning for stampede victims
ABIDJAN, CÔTE D'IVOIRE (BNO NEWS) -- Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) President Alassane Ouattara on Wednesday declared three days of national mourning after at least 60 people were killed and hundreds more were injured in a stampede at a New Year's [...]
Yellow fever outbreak in Sudan’s Darfur kills at least 164
KHARTOUM, SUDAN (BNO NEWS) -- At least 164 people in Sudan's troubled Darfur region have died over the last three months as a result of yellow fever, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the country's health ministry said on Monday. More [...]
Dispersant made 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill up to 52 times more toxic
ATLANTA, GEORGIA (BNO NEWS) -- A dispersant used as part of efforts to clean up oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster is believed to have made the spill up to 52 times more toxic, according to new research. The ecological disaster was [...]
Death toll from Bangladesh factory inferno reaches 112
ASHULIA, BANGLADESH (BNO NEWS) -- The death toll from a fire that swept through a garment factory on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital over the weekend has risen to at least 112, officials said on Monday as thousands of people took to the [...]