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SINGAPORE – The first tranche of hearings into February’s explosion in Tuas ended on a poignant note on Thursday (Oct 7), when the judge referred…
View More Tuas blast inquiry: First set of hearings end on sombre note as judge asks about melted slipper in photo
SINGAPORE – A 76-year-old man died after a traffic accident in which the tanker he was driving crashed into a bus stop near 301 West Coast…
View More Driver, 76, dies in hospital after his tanker crashes into West Coast Road bus stop
SINGAPORE – An explosion at the Tuas Incineration Plant is believed to have killed one person and seriously injured two others on Thursday (Sept 23) afternoon.…
View More Explosion rocks Tuas incineration plant: 1 dead and 2 seriously injured
GUWAHATI, India (AFP) – One woman is dead and dozens more are feared missing after two ferries, each carrying up to 90 people, collided on…
View More One dead, dozens feared missing after ferries collide in India
MILAN — Italian firefighters on Sunday battled a high-rise blaze in Milan that spread rapidly through a 20-story residential building and poured black smoke into…
View More Flames consume high-rise in Milan; residents evacuated
TOKYO (NYTIMES) – Looping in view of Mount Fuji, the Do-Dodonpa roller coaster in Japan has been one of the prized fixtures of the Fuji-Q…
View More A roller coaster in Japan shuts down after riders report broken bones
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) – The US has opened a formal investigation of Tesla’s Autopilot system, citing collisions with parked emergency vehicles, according to documents posted on…
View More Tesla Autopilot formally probed by US for emergency-vehicle crashes
WELLINGTON (REUTERS) – Two people were seriously injured while nine others suffered bruises after a hot air balloon crashed in a popular tourist town in…
View More Hot air balloon crashes in New Zealand, injuring 11 people
MINNEAPOLIS — The teenager who recorded the last moments of George Floyd’s life in a video that helped launch a global protest movement against racial…
View More Teen who recorded Floyd's arrest loses uncle in police crash
SURFSIDE, FLORIDA (REUTERS) – The death toll from a collapsed Miami-area condominium rose to 28 on Monday (July 5) with the discovery of an additional…
View More Death toll in Florida building collapse rises to 28, with 117 still missing
SURFSIDE, FLORIDA (NYTIMES) – All around Mrs Magaly Ramsey a chorus of newly familiar strangers were shouting out the names of their loved ones, hoping…
View More 'We are waiting for you': An agonising vigil for families of Florida condo collapse victims
FLORIDA (AFP) – Blocks away from the wreckage of a Florida apartment tower that suddenly collapsed last week and left scores of people missing, Patrick…
View More Therapy dogs soothe amid trauma of Florida collapse
SURFSIDE, FLORIDA (NYTIMES) – The investigation into what may be the deadliest accidental building collapse in American history has just begun, but experts who have…
View More Possible failure point emerges in Miami building collapse
SINGAPORE – One SMRT technician was killed and another injured when a car jack supporting a bus they were working on gave way on Sunday…
View More SMRT worker killed, another injured on Sunday when car jack supporting bus gives way