A car competing at the 14th annual Maures regional rally in France's southern town of Draguignan crashed into a crowd of spectators on Saturday, killing at least two people and badly injuring a further 15.
The owner of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that capsized off the coast of Italy in January has paid more than $2 million to French survivors in a settlement, their lawyer said Tuesday, adding that the payment did not preclude further legal action.
Two trains collided head on just outside the Netherland’s capital Amsterdam on Saturday, leaving dozens injured, at least 15 of them seriously, according to Dutch transportation authorities.
One hundred years after the sinking of the Titanic, the world marked the tragedy on Sunday with ceremonies planned in cities across North America, Britain and Northern Ireland.
A 6-year-old girl died and more than 30 people were injured on Sunday when the floor of a house hosting Easter services collapsed in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis, local officials said.
Italian searchers have found three more bodies in the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, an official said Thursday, taking to 28 the number of bodies retrieved. The vessel struck a reef off the island of Giglio in January.
Belgium "weeps for its children". The country is holding a National Day of Mourning for the victims of Tuesday's bus crash in Switzerland. And on Syria, we look at how the British papers are following up on The Guardian's publication of leaked Assad e-mails. That's the focus for the this press review, Friday 16th March 2012.
Belgium observed a minute of silence during a national day of mourning on Friday for the 28 victims, including 22 children, killed in a Tuesday night bus crash as they returned from a skiing trip in the Swiss Alps.
Relatives of the 28 people killed in a horrific bus crash in a Swiss tunnel arrived at the morgue on Thursday to identify the bodies. Tests will be carried out on the body of the driver to determine whether ill health may have caused the crash.
The death toll rose to at least 112 on Wednesday after a ferry collided with an oil barge in the Meghna river in Bangladesh. The vessel was carrying some 200 passengers when it capsized early Tuesday, 40 kilometres southeast of the capital Dhaka.
