A community is mourning the loss of two children killed in a shed fire as their mother stays at the bedside of her two other critically injured children.
Police are investigating a fire that claimed the lives of five young boys and their father near Brisbane as potentially suspicious while authorities look into key events that led up to the blaze.
A 28-year-old woman has lost her husband and five young sons in a devastating blaze after fire crews found six bodies inside the wreckage of their home on Queensland's Russell Island.
At least 42 people have been killed and more than 130 injured in a bomb attack at a political rally in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, police and rescue officials say.
A former coalition minister and government departments failed to properly consider the personal heartbreak and harm stemming from the illegal robodebt scheme.
At least 17 people including three children have been killed by a leak of toxic nitrate gas being used by illegal miners to process gold in a settlement in South Africa.
Rescuers and families have searched through mangled train carriages for more victims of India's worst rail crash in more than two decades with signal failure emerging as the likely cause.
A collision between two passenger trains in India has killed more than 230 people, injured hundreds and trapped others inside more than a dozen damaged rail cars.
At least 50 people have been killed in central Myanmar in an air strike by the military on an event attended by opponents to its rule, according to media and members of a local resistance movement.
French rescue workers have found a sixth body in the rubble of buildings in the southern city of Marseille that collapsed following an explosion, a spokesman for the police says.
