Firefighters and other mourners have gathered to remember a volunteer firefighter killed when a trash bin outside a Wisconsin foundry exploded.
A bomb planted at a fair celebrating the ethnic Karen minority's New Year holiday killed seven people and wounded 11 others, state media reported Friday.
Two large explosions and a fire leveled a maintenance building Thursday morning adjacent to a natural gas plant north of Anchorage.
An explosion at a chemical plant in the Houston area Wednesday shook nearby homes, generated black smoke seen for miles and injured two workers.
A gas line exploded Monday at a technology plant in northern Illinois, sending aloft debris that killed a man at a nearby highway rest area.
A blast at a gas station in a Damascus suburb killed three people Thursday, gutting the back of an empty bus and blowing out nearby windows, officials said.
Police say eight workers have been injured in an explosion at a middle school in southeastern Virginia.
The number of dead in China's worst mining accident in two years rose to 107 Wednesday after three more bodies were pulled out of the coal mine, state media said.
A court has acquitted a subsidiary of French oil giant Total and a former factory chief in a 2001 explosion at a chemical plant that killed 31 people.
Two Massachusetts residents are suing a company that supplied chemicals they say were involved in huge explosion that damaged more than 270 homes and businesses in 2006.
A family whose members suffered burns when a natural gas pipeline exploded last week in the Texas Panhandle filed a negligence lawsuit Thursday against the companies that own and operate it.
A natural gas pipeline exploded in the Texas Panhandle on Thursday, shaking homes, melting window blinds and shooting flames hundreds of feet into the air, authorities said.
The FBI said Friday there is no evidence of sabotage in last week's explosion at a Puerto Rico fuel depot, which burned for more than two days and forced the evacuation of hundreds of people.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Friday imposed a record $87 million fine against oil giant BP PLC for failing to correct safety hazards after a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers at its Texas City refinery.
Federal investigators entered a smoldering fuel depot for the first time Sunday to investigate what may have caused an explosion that forced hundreds to evacuate and spewed thick, toxic smoke across the region.
Military explosives experts destroyed a 500-pound bomb Saturday that had been jettisoned by an F-16 pilot making an emergency landing.
The National Transportation Safety Board says better pipeline testing might have prevented a 2007 propane explosion that killed two people in rural Mississippi.
A blast at a Hezbollah member's home in southern Lebanon was caused by an exploding shell and injured one person, Lebanon's army said Tuesday.
A Libyan man set off a small bomb while trying to enter an army barracks in Milan on Monday, seriously injuring himself and slightly wounding the guard who stopped him, Italian law enforcement officials said.
Australia will resettle 42 Afghan men who survived a boat explosion that killed five fellow asylum seekers in Australian waters in April, an official said on Monday.
A Nigerian official says at least 14 people died when a petroleum tanker truck exploded and set nine other vehicles alight on a road in southeastern Nigeria.
Crews plan to begin rebuilding an overpass on Interstate 75 north of Detroit that was destroyed during a tanker explosion this summer that involved three vehicles.
A schoolgirl was killed by a car bomb in northwestern Sri Lanka that also wounded 12 others Friday, mostly students who were about to travel in the vehicle, officials said.
International Paper Co. has settled another federal lawsuit stemming from a 2008 explosion that killed a contract worker at a Mississippi plant and injured nearly two dozen others.
An explosion has destroyed a house in central Indiana, badly burning a 20-year-old man who was inside.
The suicide bomber who killed seven CIA agents in Afghanistan had been courted by the US as a possible informant, US intelligence sources have said.
We've all heard the horror stories: A buxom young woman with breast implants boards a plane en route to an exotic locale. She is planning a relaxing getaway, but mid-flight, the plane loses cabin pressure.
Police on Thursday said two men were injured by an explosion while making fireworks in their apartment. The severely damaged flat apparently contained a substantial cache of pyrotechnical equipment.
Two Pakistanis who have lost loved ones in recent suicide attacks share their stories and describe the impact terror has had on their lives. ALI MUSTAFA, DOCTOR, ISLAMABAD Ali Mustafa lost his best friend during the attack on a mosque in Rawalpindi on 4 December.
Pakistan's Taliban have said they carried out the suicide bombing which killed 43 people in the commercial capital, Karachi, on Monday. A spokesman threatened to carry out more such attacks in the coming days.
Thousands of people in Pakistan have attended funerals in the city of Karachi, a day after a suicide bomb that claimed the lives of 43 people. Firefighters are still extinguishing flames following rioting after the attack on a Shia Muslim march.
A deadly blast in the middle of the Muharram procession on M.A. Jinnah road has caused chaos and mayhem. Unbearable scenes of death and blood are everywhere. Dawn.com attempts to describe what people present at the scene tried to reconstruct.
At least 30 people have been killed and dozens injured in a suicide bombing on a Shia Muslim march in the Pakistani city of Karachi, officials say. The attacker had been walking amidst a procession with tens of thousands of people, said the interior minister.
A 32-year-old businessman from Amsterdam was described as a 'hero' in various media reports on Saturday for his role in over-powering an alleged terrorist who tried to blow up a Northwest Airline jet as it landed at Detroit airport in the US on Christmas Day.
A series of bomb attacks has killed at least 23 people in Iraq. The latest attacks, which appeared to target Shia Muslims, saw eight people killed in predominately Shia areas of the capital Baghdad.
A pensioner blew his garage to bits as he tried to thaw a frozen car radiator using a heater.
For the same reason that we have Space Shuttle launch delays, we'll be able to tell exactly what trajectories our enemies could take between planets: the launch window.
Within a decade scientists could be able to detect the merger of tens of pairs of black holes every year, according to a team of astronomers at the University of Bonn's Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie... More Articles
A chemistry student has been killed by exploding bubble gum that tore off half of his face, police said Thursday.
The family of Stephen Menary, a teenage army cadet who was blinded in an IRA bombing, had been invited to meet the Queen and her husband at a tree planting event in Hyde Park.
A natural gas explosion destroyed a house in Knoxville, Tennessee on December 9, 2009.
A boiler exploded at a Valero oil refinery in Texas City on December 4, killing an employee. From 2001 to the present, the plant has held the Voluntary Protection Programs STAR award from OSHA for exceptional safety, and is recognized as one of the safest plants in the US.
An explosion and fire apparently caused by pyrotechnics tore through a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm early Saturday, killing 102 people, according to news reports.
Just in case you are wondering, this was not a terrorist attack according to authorities. Last weeks bombing of a passenger train was though. Hope they might want to chip in some more resources to the Afghanistan campaign as a result of the recent attack. War is spendy.
Defense officials in South Korea say one person has been killed and five others injured in an explosion at a weapons research institute.
In 1054, humans recorded sightings of the mega-star explosion that created the Crab Nebula. It was so bright it was visible to the naked eye. Now three space telescopes have together created a more complete picture of the debris.
"Safety officials and investigators have blamed poor management and inadequate safety precautions for the coal mine blast" in China on Saturday, November 21, 2009.
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- China's worst mining accident in almost two years killed at least 104 in a coal-mine explosion in Heilongjiang province, raising concerns of a crackdown that may close mines and tighten supply in the world's biggest producer.
Two employees of a local television station in Atlanta are lucky to be alive after their live truck exploded following an incident involving the truck's raised mast and power lines.
Oil giant Total UK has pleaded guilty to charges relating to the explosion at the Buncefield oil depot in Hertfordshire in 2005. At the Old Bailey, it pleaded guilty to two charges under the Health and Safety Act and one of causing pollution.