Hundreds of thousands of fish died in outback Australia, with the government blaming the mass death on a toxic algae bloom due to changing weather conditions. It is the second incident of mass fish death along the Darling River at Menindee — around 1000 kilometres west of Sydney — since December, when 10,000 fish died.

Mass fish death in Australia: Government blames weather change

Four Iraqi policemen were killed Sunday in two back-to-back bomb blasts at one of their positions north of the capital, near a former jihadist bastion, local officials and officers said.

Four policemen dead in back-to-back bomb blasts in Iraq

Mexico's state oil firm, Pemex, did not close the valve at a leaking gasoline pipeline when first notified because it was not initially thought to be an "important" leak, Mexico's security minister said on Sunday.

Mexico gasoline pipeline leak detected hours before fatal blast

The bullet-riddled body of a Myanmar policeman was found in northern Rakhine state, government media said Sunday, as tensions rise in the hotspot where the Rohingya crisis erupted last year.

Myanmar: Missing policeman found killed in northern Rakhine state

In pics: Volcano-triggered tsunami washes away hundreds in Indonesia

Twenty-three people died in western Nepal when a bus carrying school students and teachers back from a botanical field trip plunged into a gorge, police said. The students were aged mostly between 16 and 20.

Nepal student bus plunges into gorge, 23 dead

Three people were killed and several injured in the attack at Nirankari Bhawan in Amritsar's Rajasansi village on Sunday, IG (Border) Surinder Pal Singh Parmar said.

3 dead, 10 injured in blast at Amritsar's Rajasansi village

When Moustapha Dieng came down with stomach pains one-day last month he did the sensible thing and went to a doctor in his hometown of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital.

Tens of thousands die in Africa each year due to fake drugs

Coalition air strikes Saturday killed at least 36 civilians related to the Islamic State group in a jihadist holdout in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border, a Britain-based monitor said.

Anti-IS coalition raids kill 36 civilians in east Syria: monitor

Search teams will fan out across the charred landscape of Paradise, California looking for human remains on Tuesday as authorities prepare for a rise in the deathcount from the state's deadliest wildfire.

Teams search for bodies in California after wildfire claims 42 lives

The Taliban's campaign of violence and intimidation during last month's parliamentary elections in Afghanistan was the deadliest for civilians in years, a report by the United Nations mission in the country has said.

Taliban-led violence during recent Afghan polls leaves record high numbers of civilians dead: UN

A highway in the Peruvian highlands near Lake Titicaca was the scene of a violent and deadly crash on Monday (November 05) that left at least 18 dead. According to local media, a truck crashed head on into a passenger bus that left both vehicles completely destroyed and 18 people dead, among them 12 women and a child, and another 39 injured.

Peru bus crash leaves 18 dead, 39 injured

A key Pakistani cleric with close ties to the Afghan Taliban who was killed in the garrison city of Rawalpindi was buried Saturday as Prime Minister Imran Khan called for an investigation into the murder.

Pakistan buries 'Father of Taliban' as PM orders probe of killing

An Indonesian diver died while recovering body parts from the ill-fated Lion Air plane which crashed into the sea killing 189 people, an official said Saturday. Syachrul Anto, 48, who died on Friday, was part of the team searching for body parts and debris from the jet in the Java Sea.

Diver dies in search for Indonesia jet crash remains

Fierce winds and rains have killed at least 20 people in Italy this week and razed thousands of hectares of forest in the country's devastated north, officials said.

Fierce winds raze forests in storm-hit Italy, kills 20 this week

A gunman has killed two people and wounded five others at a yoga studio in Florida's capital before killing himself, officials said. Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo told reporters Friday night that the man shot six people and pistol-whipped another after walking into the studio, which is part of a small Tallahassee shopping center.

3 dead, including shooter, at Florida yoga studio: Police

Indonesia on Tuesday stepped up a search for an airliner that plunged into the sea with all 189 aboard feared dead, deploying underwater beacons to trace its black box recorders and uncover why an almost-new plane crashed minutes after take-off.

Indonesia hunts for victims, wreckage of air crash; survivors seem unlikely

At least five people died Monday in Italy as fierce winds and rains lashed much of the country and caused waters in the canal-ringed city of Venice to reach historic high levels.

Deadly storms lash Italy leaving Venice afloat, 5 dead

A car bomb attack Tuesday killed six people and wounded 26 more at a market in a town near the Islamic State group's former Iraqi capital of Mosul, medics said. Images of the scene posted on social media showed a devastated market in the town of Al Qayyarah, 60 kilometres (40 miles) south of Mosul, with wounded being evacuated as bystanders, watched on.

Six killed, 26 wounded in car bomb attack near Iraq's Mosul

The driver of the train which mowed down at least 59 people in Amritsar on Friday has said that he continued driving — despite realising that he had run people over — because the crowd started pelting stones at the train.

Amritsar train tragedy that killed 59: Continued driving because crowd pelted stones, says driver

Over 60 people have been dead and at least 70 were left injured on Friday when a speeding train mowed them down while they were celebrating Dussehra. According to reports, people were burning Dussehra effigy near the railway track in Choura Bazar area in Amritsar when a train ran into the crowd.

Over 60 dead, at least 72 injured in Amritsar train accident, Punjab declares mourning

President Donald Trump said Thursday he now believes journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead and warned of "very severe" consequences should Saudi Arabia be proven responsible.

Trump says Saudi journalist likely dead, warns of 'severe' response

At least 18 people died in a blast in a technical college on the Crimean peninsula, with dozens more injured, Crimean head Sergei Aksyonov said on state television on Wednesday.

Death toll rises to 18 in Crimea college blast: Regional leader

One laborer was killed and several were injured when an under-construction building collapsed in Noida's sector 39 on Sunday. The incident occurred at the BPTP 'Capital City' in the morning when a tractor-trolley carrying sand reportedly hit the shuttering (temporary fixtures) bringing down six laborers who were working a few floors above the ground, they said.

1 dead, several injured after under-construction building collapses in Noida 

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