An avalanche in central Italy has buried a ski resort, leaving about 30 people missing and prompting a frantic rescue effort. Three bodies have been recovered, The Associated Press reports, but the full extent of the death toll is not yet known. Children are believed to be among the missing. Rescue workers who arrived at the...
Police in Georgia are searching for answers in a double homicide after two teenagers were found dead behind a grocery store. The teens, identified as Natalie Henderson and Carter Davis, both 17, were found dead behind a Publix supermarket in Roswell, Georgia, shortly before 6 a.m. Monday, the Roswell Police Department said....
An F/A-18C Hornet fighter jet crashed near Twentynine Palms, California, last night, killing the pilot on board. According to the Marine Corps, the pilot was conducting a training mission out of Air Station Miramar, just north of San Diego. The crash occurred at approximately 10:30 p.m. local time. The Marine Corps said in a...
Native American Chief David Bald Eagle, who appeared in the Oscar-winning 1990 film Dances With Wolves, has died aged 97. The grandson of Chief White Bull, who fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, Bald Eagle appeared in more than 40 films. He went on to become the face of South Dakota's Lakota people. He died...
Two people have been killed and up to 16 injured in a shooting at a nightclub in the city of Fort Myers in Florida, police say. The attack happened at Club Blu, which was hosting a party for teenagers. Police have arrested three people but said the incident was "not an act of terror". The two killed were identified as...
Four people were killed in a collision between a bus carrying Dallas Cowboys staff members and a van on a northwestern Arizona highway Sunday. The crash happened in the afternoon about 180 miles northeast of Phoenix, according to the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS). Two adults and two teens were killed in the van,...
The man who set off an explosive device near a music festival in the German city of Ansbach, injuring at least 12 and killing himself, was a Syrian who had been denied asylum, the Bavarian interior minister said. The 27-year-old suspect, who came to Germany two years ago, had been on police radar for crimes in the past,...
At least 75 people in northern China have died or gone missing since Monday in some of the worst flooding in years, the government said Thursday. The figures released by the Civil Affairs Ministry come amid continuing heavy downpours that have caused havoc across usually dry regions, including the capital Beijing. Already, 576...
ISTANBUL — Turkey's president declared he is in control of the NATO country early Saturday as loyal military and police forces fought to squash a coup attempt during a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire that left dozens dead. A faction of the armed forces attempted to seize power using tanks and attack...
The driver of a lorry that killed 84 people in an attack in the French city of Nice has been confirmed as Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, 31. Some 202 people were injured; 52 are critical, of whom 25 are on life support. Ten of the dead were children. Prosecutor Francois Molins said Bouhlel had driven the lorry 2km (1.2...
Severe rain and wind brought by super Typhoon Nepartak killed at least three people and injured more than 140 in Taiwan, authorities say. The storm made landfall in the southeastern county of Taitung at 5.50am (0750 AEST) on Friday. One unidentified man died after being swept off a beach in the eastern county of Hualien late...
Four Dallas police officers have been shot dead by sniper fire during protests against the shooting of black men by police, the authorities say. One suspect is in custody after a shootout with police, while a person of interest turned himself in, Dallas police tweeted. Gunfire broke out as demonstrators marched through the...