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At least 16 students perished in an overnight fire that broke out in the dormitories of a girls’ boarding school, according to a Kenya government official, marking the latest incident of this nature to affect the East African nation.

Firefighters fought a grass fire in Edinburgh, Scotland, and temperature records were broken as a spring heat wave scorched parts of Western Europe, prompting government warnings about life-threatening risks.

Doctors working on the front lines in the battle against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, already struggling with a lack of basic supplies, now also have to cope with attacks on their facilities and patients fleeing as the virus spreads rapidly.

A Paris appeals court has declared Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter in connection with the 2009 Rio-Paris plane crash that resulted in the deaths of 228 passengers and crew.

According to experts, California’s several months of mushroom poisonings, which have resulted in the deaths of four people and the hospitalization of 43 others, have become the largest known outbreak of its kind in U.S. history.

A new Ebola outbreak has been confirmed in a remote province of eastern Congo, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention stated on Friday. There are 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths reported so far, according to the public health body.

Oxygen toxicity and sheer panic are among the potential factors that could have led to the deaths of five Italian tourists who disappeared during a daring scuba dive in the Maldives, experts say.

Dust storms, heavy rain, and lightning have damaged homes and other structures and resulted in the deaths of at least 96 people in northern India, officials stated on Thursday.

A competitor in a challenging 250-mile ultramarathon on trails throughout northern Arizona passed away on Tuesday after facing a medical emergency, according to race organizers and local law enforcement.

An explosion at a fireworks plant in a province in central China resulted in the deaths of at least 26 people and left 61 others injured, authorities reported on Tuesday.

Chinese authorities are alleged to have covered up the fact that a suicidal pilot intentionally crashed a plane, resulting in the deaths of all 132 people onboard, according to claims by US officials.

The deaths or disappearances of 11 leading US scientists and researchers are of urgent national importance, a member of the House Oversight Committee emphasized on Friday.

A series of police pursuits have resulted in at least eight deaths across the country in less than a week, amidst ongoing calls from some law enforcement experts to limit dangerous high-speed car chases.

The US has dispatched FBI agents to Cuba to investigate the Florida-flagged speedboat incident that led to five deaths in February, following Cuban government claims that it was attempting to infiltrate the island.

Three individuals have been killed and three were transported to a hospital after a suspected tornado struck a Michigan town on Friday, authorities reported.

A woman has been arrested and charged in relation to the deaths of two girls whose bodies were found inside suitcases and buried in shallow graves, authorities in Cleveland announced on March 5.

Israel’s military is aiming at the Iranian police state that severely crushed protests and resulted in the deaths of thousands, hoping to pave the way for a popular uprising to topple the Islamic government.

Prisons are intended to be drug-free environments, yet illegal drugs have become so widespread in New Jersey’s state facilities that staff have had to administer the overdose-reversing drug Narcan more than once a day, on average, in recent years, according to a new report.

Michael Papp’s body was cold and stiff inside his secluded Cuyahoga County jail cell when a corrections officer finally opened the door.

The year 2025 proved a period of profound reflection and significant change, as the world bid farewell to several influential figures across diverse spheres.

Emmanuel Haro's father admitting to killing the 7-month-old and then dumping his body in a trash can, according to a new report — as authorities say the baby died after enduring lengthy abuse by his parents.