Accidents and Emergency Incidents

The blast on the twelfth floor of the building in Taichung caused damage from the ninth floor upwards, spraying large pieces of debris over the street below.

Emergency services are at the scene where a motorcycle and bus collided on the New England Highway about 40 kilometres from Tamworth. 

Police say the pair of interstate climbers had to spend the night waiting for rescue after their ropes became "entangled" in high winds.

The fire department said the driver lost control of the bus and collided with several small vehicles before plunging over the precipice.

Business owner Rosanna Hashem died a day before her 44th birthday in south-west Sydney, in what has been described as a "freak incident".

It is one of the most treacherous stretches of coast in Western Australia, so why has it taken so long to have mobile phone coverage improved?

Police say the paraglider had a "catastrophic" equipment failure in high winds and had to make an emergency landing in a 15-metre-high tree in Victoria's north-east.

A woman says it is lucky her family was not home when a passenger bus ploughed into her house in Sydney's south-west this morning, causing extensive damage.

A man is in custody after a 72-year-old man died and a woman was seriously injured in what police say was a family violence incident in the Perth suburb of Clarkson.  

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker says a person who was in a car at the time of the crash has died, along with six people on the plane.

The sinkhole northwest of Tokyo has doubled in size since Tuesday morning as authorities race to save an elderly man trapped in a truck.

The first report on last month's Jeju Air crash in South Korea confirms traces of bird strikes in the plane's engines. 

Police charge a 75-year-old woman with the alleged murder of her roommate at the Bethanie Waters Aged Care Home in Port Kennedy, south of Perth.

Police have recovered the bodies of two people in separate suspected drowning incidents in inland rivers in Victoria and NSW.

Hadi Nazari told the hikers who found him after two weeks missing in the NSW bush that he used journal entries in a logbook inside a mountain hut to plan his route to safety. 

Authorities have now detained nine people following the fire, which ripped through a ski resort in western Türkiye earlier this week.

The family of five-year-old Sammy who died after a parking meter fell on him at a museum in Bunbury say he "brought so much joy".

Mother-of-two Jacqui Rich says LifeFlight saved her life after an accident on her Western Downs cattle station. She's one of more than 8,400 Queenslanders helped by the service in 2024.

The five-year-old was at Bunbury Museum when he was crushed by the meter and suffered critical injuries last week.

Police say a 17-year-old girl went over Wappa Falls on Sunday afternoon and a 17-year-old boy who jumped into the water to find her also died.