BEIJING: 1 person was killed and 22 others were injured in a large suspected gas explosion in northern China’s Hebei province on Wednesday, state media reported, as social media videos showed severe damage to buildings. State broadcaster CCTV said the explosion occurred just before 8 a.m. (0000 GMT) in a residential area in the city…

TOKYO (Reuters) – Kairos, a small, solid-fuelled rocket made by Japan’s Space One, exploded shortly after its inaugural launch on Wednesday as the firm tried to become the first Japanese company to put a satellite in orbit. The 18-metre (59 ft) solid-fuel rocket exploded seconds after lifting off at 11:01 a.m. (0201 GMT), leaving behind…

Bucharest: Controversial influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been arrested in Romania over UK sex offence charges, police said on Tuesday. Romanian authorities said in a statement they executed “two European arrest warrants issued by the UK judicial authorities for the committing of sexual offences, of exploitation of persons on the territory of the…

Moscow: Russia said on Tuesday that a military cargo plane with 15 people on board had crashed while taking off from an airfield for a scheduled flight. Moscow said the Ilyushin-76 plane crashed in the Ivanovo region, 200 kilometres (125 miles) east of Moscow after one of its engines caught fire. “An Il-76 military transport plane…

Dhaka: At least 43 people were killed and dozens injured after a fire blazed through a seven-storey building in an upscale neighbourhood in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka late Thursday, health authorities said. “So far 43 people have died from the fire,” Bangladesh’s health minister Samanta Lal Sen told AFP after visiting the Dhaka Medical College…

General elections were held in Pakistan on February 8. In this, most of the independent candidates supporting Imran Khan had won. However, no party could get the required seats to form the government. Pakistan will get a new Prime Minister on Sunday i.e. March 3. Yesterday, the Secretariat of the National Assembly of Pakistan announced…

Montreal: Brian Mulroney, the former Canadian prime minister who struck a free trade deal with the U.S. but whose legacy was marred by revelations of improper business dealings with an arms dealer, has died. Mulroney died peacefully surrounded by family, his daughter Caroline Mulroney posted on social media platform X on Thursday. He was 84. Mulroney…

Wellington, New Zealand: The victims and families affected by the 2019 New Zealand volcano disaster, which claimed 22 lives, were awarded total damages of NZ$10 million (US$6 million) on Friday. The sum must be paid by five companies that transported 47 tourists to the volcanic island in December 2019, the day it erupted. Many of the…

Apple has canceled work on its electric car, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday, a decade after the iPhone maker kicked off the project. Shares of the company were up 0.7% in afternoon trading, having pared some losses from earlier in the trading day. Several employees working on the electric car…