Britain asks U.S. to extradite diplomat's wife over fatal road accident
The British government announced Friday that it has formally requested the extradition of the wife of a U.S. diplomat who left the country after being involved in a car accident that killed a teenager. The U.S. State Department responded by saying such an extradition would ...
Ukrainian airliner crashes after takeoff in Iran, killing all 176 aboard
A Ukrainian passenger jet carrying 176 people crashed Wednesday, just minutes after taking off from the Iranian capital's main airport, turning farmland on the outskirts of Tehran into fields of flaming debris and killing all on board. The crash of Ukraine International Airlines came hours ...
At least 36 dead, 23 rescued after collapse of hotel being built in Cambodia
The death toll from the collapse of a building under construction in Cambodia was put at 36 on Sunday, even as an additional survivor was pulled from rubble, officials said. At least a dozen bodies were found in overnight operations at the site in the ...
Kentucky fines Jim Beam over massive bourbon spill that killed fish
Jim Beam was fined $600,000 earlier this month after a July warehouse fire sent a nearly 23-mile (37-kilometer) plume of alcohol into the Kentucky and Ohio rivers, killing fish. The distiller agreed to the fine in a Dec. 6 order from the Kentucky Energy and ...
A tour helicopter with seven people aboard disappeared in Hawaii on Thursday evening, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The owner of the helicopter contacted the Coast Guard about 45 minutes after the aircraft was due back from a tour of Kauai's Na Pali Coast, a ...
The National Consumer Affairs Center of Japan is calling for people to use baby strollers correctly, following a series of accidents due to belongings being hung on strollers. According to the center, the number of cases in which infants visited hospitals due to falling from ...
Coming up with new legal definitions is an important step in clamping down on road rage.
Japan to require drone registration to find owners following accidents
Owners of drones will be required to register their remote-controlled aircraft with the government so officials can quickly identify them after accidents, according to the land ministry. The government has yet to decide when to introduce the system, but it will include the necessary funding ...
More effective measures must be taken to reduce accidents by elderly drivers.
The U.S. military may have finally found a way to fix a glitch with the world's most high-tech helmet used by pilots flying the most expensive fighter jet in history. A bug in the $400,000 helmet display screen used by F-35 aviators caused a green ...
In South Korea's deadly shipyards, subcontracted workers most at risk
Park Chol-hee was working a holiday shift at Samsung Heavy Industries' Geoje shipyard on Labor Day in 2017 when a giant crane collided with another and crashed to ground, killing six people, including Park's younger brother. "It was as if a bomb was dropped," Park ...
Fragments of oil from spills plaguing Brazil's coast for three month have reached a humpback whale sanctuary, the navy reported Saturday. The area around the small Abrolhos archipelago off the coast of northeast Bahia state has some of Brazil's richest biodiversity. The oil was being recovered ...
