Explosion News

A storage tank roof that sank at a Sinclair Oil refinery earlier this year and caused Wyoming's biggest spill in decades wasn't unprecedented: A storage tank roof also sank at the refinery in 2007.

Authorities say the unidentified victims were taken by helicopter to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola and later moved to the University of South Alabama Burn Center in Mobile Thursday afternoon.

A bomb blast outside the main gate of a court building in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed 16 people, and injured 26 others.

Afghan soldiers secure a street in Kabul on Thursday. KABUL - A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 13 people, including a police officer, and wounded 30 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan .

Two Atlanta television reporters are recovering from minor injuries they received when their news truck touched power lines and caused an explosion.

An explosion during a training exercise at Fort Pickett near Blackstone has injured more than a dozen soldiers.

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.

A suicide bomber killed 19 people Thursday outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attack in an onslaught by Islamist militants fighting back against an army offensive in the nearby Afghan border region.

Afghanistan will control its own security within five years and prosecute corrupt officials, President Hamid Karzai pledged Thursday in an inauguration speech made under intense pressure to shed the cronyism and graft that marked his government's first term.

The Defence Force has released the name of the air force officer killed at Waiouru Military Camp in the central North Island on Thursday.

A British army bomb disposal expert killed by an explosion in Afghanistan has been named by the Ministry of Defence as Cpl Loren Marlton-Thomas. The 28-year-old, from 33 Engineer Regiment, based in Wimbish, Essex, died on Sunday in Gereshk, Helmand province.

A malfunctioning fuel monitoring system was the likely cause of an Oct. 23 explosion and massive fire at a Puerto Rican fuel storage depot, the US Chemical Safety Board said on Tuesday.

Share + Nov 18, 2009 8:40 am US/Mountain Reporting Karen Leigh BRUSH, Colo. The Federal Aviation Administration is researching why a chunk of ice slammed into a Colorado woman's home.

An intelligence official in the area said Taliban attacked the government-run school overnight when no one was at the property.

Iraqi police officers insect a damaged vehicle following a car bomb explosion in Kirkuk 290 kilometers north of Baghdad , Iraq on Monday, Nov.

Border Security Force Deputy Inspector General O.P. Tanwar was killed and two of his security guards and driver were injured Monday in a landmine explosion triggered close to an India-Pakistan border post in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.

A father and son believe a meteorite recently landed in their backyard in Liberal.

Two people are hospitalized after their Weld County farmhouse exploded and burned.

LONDON: Gordon Brown plans to host talks in the new year to discuss timing for handing over the campaign in Afghanistan to the Afghan government.

Guwahati, Nov 17 : At least 20 wagons were damaged in Assam when a goods train carrying petroleum products went up in flames.