SAMPIT, INDONESIA (BNO NEWS) — At least six people are confirmed dead after a passenger speed boat carrying 40 people capsized on the Indonesian island of Borneo, local media reported on Thursday.

The accident happened at around 8.30 a.m. local time …

HEFEI, CHINA (BNO NEWS) — Two separate coal mine accidents in eastern China on Thursday have resulted in the deaths of at least 10 people, local authorities said.

The first accident happened at around 4.45 a.m. local time at a coal mine in Huoqiu Cou…

MOSCOW (BNO NEWS) — Debris of an unmanned Russian space freighter fell in South Siberia after the spacecraft failed to reach the designated orbit due to a rocket engine failure on Wednesday, officials said on early Thursday.

The wreckage of the Progr…

SOFIA (BNO NEWS) — Two people were killed on Tuesday evening when a small plane crashed upon landing in the Bulgarian Black Sea resort of Primorsko, the government confirmed on Wednesday.

A spokesperson for the Bulgarian Transport Ministry said a pil…

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA (BNO NEWS) — Eleven people were killed on early Wednesday morning in a house fire near Brisbane in the Australian state of Queensland, emergency officials said. Eight children are among those killed.

Two Pacific Islander families …

CAPE TOWN (BNO NEWS) — A school bus carrying around 60 children plunged into a river in the Western Cape province of South Africa on Wednesday morning, killing 14 children and their driver, emergency officials said.

The accident happened when the chi…

MOSCOW (BNO NEWS) — At least six servicemen were killed and 12 were injured on Tuesday in an explosion at a weapons testing ground in the southern Russian region of Astrakhan, a regional police source told Itar-Tass news agency.

“The explosion happen…

HARBIN, CHINA (BNO NEWS) — More than two dozen miners are trapped underground after an illegal coal mine flooded in northeastern China on Tuesday, state-run media reported.

The incident happened at around 12 p.m. local time at the Hengtai Coal Mine i…

LONDON (BNO NEWS) — A pilot of the UK Royal Air Force Aerobatics Team was killed on Saturday afternoon when his aircraft crashed after a display at the Bournemouth Air Festival in Dorset, the UK Ministry of Defense confirmed.

Flight Lieutenant John E…

RESOLUTE, CANADA (BNO NEWS) — A dozen people were killed on early Saturday afternoon when a First Air passenger plane crashed in northern Canada, officials said. Three people survived the accident.

The accident happened at around 12.50 p.m. local tim…