A massive fire has killed at least 38 people and injured more than 100 others at a container depot near a port city in Bangladesh, officials and local media report as firefighters struggled to bring the blaze under control.
Inquiries have begun into what caused the disappearance of a Japanese tour boat off the nation's northern coast, while the coast guard confirmed the death of a child found late on Sunday, bringing the death toll to 11.
A passenger listed as missing after a blaze swept through a ferry sailing from Greece to Italy has been found alive by rescuers, a Greek shipping ministry official says.
Nineteen people, including nine children, have been killed in an apartment fire in New York City, in what the city's fire commissioner called one of the worst blazes in recent memory.
Dozens of people in a southeastern Brazilian city have been injured when a footpath next to a river collapsed just after Christmas lights were illuminated as the main attraction of a popular holiday season event, officials say.
The death toll from a fire in southern Taiwan that engulfed a building overnight has risen to 46, according to officials who say at least another 41 people were injured.
At least three people have been killed and several more injured after an Amtrak train running between Seattle and Chicago derailed in north-central Montana.
A report released by Human Rights Watch says there is strong evidence to suggest Lebanese officials knew of and tacitly accepted the lethal risks posed by ammonium nitrate stored at Beirut port before the fatal blast there last year.
Federal prosecutors in Brazil are seeking a definitive settlement with miner Samarco and its shareholders, BHP Group and Vale, for damages caused by the rupture of a tailings dam in 2015, the lead prosecutor has told Reuters.
Russia's state aviation agency says wreckage of a plane that went missing has been found around five kilometres away from where it was supposed to land.
