Passenger plane crashes in northwest Nepal, injuring 9
JOMSOM, NEPAL (BNO NEWS) -- A small passenger plane crashed in a river in northwestern Nepal on early Thursday morning, but all twenty-one people on board miraculously survived the accident, officials said. Nine of the survivors were said to [...]
26 killed when bus plunges down ravine in southern Peru
AREQUIPA, PERU (BNO NEWS) -- At least 26 people, most of them mine workers, were killed Wednesday when a passenger bus plunged into a ravine in southern Peru, local authorities said Thursday. It follows another deadly bus accident in the country [...]
UK police: Self-exiled Russian tycoon Berezovsky died by hanging
LONDON, ENGLAND (BNO NEWS) -- Self-exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky, whose body was found in the bathroom of his luxury home near London over the weekend, died as a result of hanging and there is no evidence of third-party involvement, [...]
UN to investigate alleged chemical rocket attack in Syria
NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) -- The United Nations (UN) on Thursday announced that it will launch an independent investigation into allegations of the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon made the announcement after [...]
Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman dies at Singapore hospital
SINGAPORE (BNO NEWS) -- Bangladeshi President Zillur Rahman, a veteran ruling party leader who held the largely ceremonial post for more than four years, died Wednesday while undergoing treatment for a lung infection at a hospital in Singapore, [...]
Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina elected 266th pope
VATICAN CITY (BNO NEWS) -- Thousands of faithful erupted in cheers Wednesday as white smoke began to rise from the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, signaling that Roman Catholic cardinals had elected a new pope. He [...]
Moderate earthquake felt throughout Taiwan, no damage
HUALIEN, TAIWAN (BNO NEWS) -- A moderate but shallow earthquake struck northern Taiwan on late Thursday morning, causing buildings to sway in the capital Taipei and other parts of the island, seismologists and witnesses said. There were no immediate [...]