Luis ACOSTA / AFP via Getty Images Nine people have died in an explosion at a coal mine in Colombia in the latest fatal accident to hit the country's mining sector.
Emergency workers said they had rescued six miners from the shafts in Sutatausa, north of the capital, Bogotá.
Colombia's national mining agency said a build-up of gases was thought to have caused the explosion at 16:00
AFP via Getty Images Film star-turned-politician C Joseph Vijay is on the cusp of history in Tamil Nadu state.
On Monday, his political party Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) defied all naysayers to almost sweep the state election, marking a break in the established political order.
Vijay's spectacular rise is being compared with that of matinee idol MG Ramachandran, who broke away from the established Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)
A blast at a fireworks factory in China's Hunan province has killed 26 people and left 61 wounded, according to state media.
Rescue operations have wrapped up at the Huasheng Fireworks plant in the southern city of Liuyang, after an explosion on Monday afternoon forced authorities to evacuate everyone within a 3km (1.9 mile) radius of the plant.
Authorities deployed more than 1,500 emergency responders, along with dogs,
Getty Images Popular Australian author Craig Silvey, best known for his children's and young adult fiction books, has pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material.
Silvey, 43, was arrested in January during a police raid at his Perth home in Western Australia where several electronic devices were seized.
In court on Tuesday, the Jasper Jones and Runt author admitted to two charges relating to child exploitation material produced in January.
Getty Images A Boeing 737 plane that plummeted into a Chinese hillside in 2022, killing all 132 people on board, had its fuel supply cut mid-flight, according to newly released data by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
Findings by the NTSB say that the fuel switches on both engines of the China Eastern flight were moved to the "cut-off" position while it was at a cruising altitude
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Three people have died, including two volunteer rescuers, after a yacht sank and a rescue boat rolled in choppy conditions off Australia's New South Wales (NSW) coast.
Emergency services were called at 18:15 local time on Monday after a member of the public reported a yacht in trouble off the break wall in South Ballina, a popular coastal destination close to the NSW and Queensland border
BBC The dust at this busy recycling plant is pervasive and the steady noise of hoppers and conveyor belts makes this a challenging environment to work in.
The facility in Rainham, east London is owned by Sharp Group, a family-run skip and waste management firm.
Along the conveyor belts runs everything you could imagine, from shoes, to old VHS cassettes and blocks of concrete.
The team here processes up to 280,000 tonnes of mixed