North Korea has announced it has carried out an underground nuclear explosion, and there are reports it test-fired a short-range missile just hours later. /nThe United States and the European Union have sharply criticised the move, while Russia has expressed concern./nJapan's prime minister...

Witnesses say train crash sounded like an explosion, & describe the chaos that ensued immediately after one Metro train in Washington, DC slammed into another. With at least 7 killed, local officials are calling it the deadliest accident in the system's history.

North Carolina Fireworks Explosion, Outerbanks Island - 3 Dead

British defence correspondent Rupert Hamer has been killed by an IED explosion in Afghanistan, and becomes the first british reporter to die.

A US official has rejected Iranian accusations that the United States had a hand in an explosion which killed a Tehran University nuclear scientist, calling the allgation absurd. The scientist, Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, a particle physics professor at the prestigious Tehran University, was killed...

(WTNH) -- Emergency crews are on the scene of an explosion and fire at a power plant in Middletown. There are reports of mass casualties, but there are no confirmed details.

CBS - More than 50 homes were destroyed when an explosion and fire caused by a broken gas line engulfed the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno.

Australian airline Qantas grounded its Airbus A380 fleet after one of the superjumbo jets blew out an engine on Thursday, making a safe emergency landing in Singapore with 459 people aboard. Qantas said there had been no explosion, but witnesses aboard the plane and on the ground reported blasts....

One man has been killed after two explosions in a busy shopping street in central Stockholm.

AP - There's been more trouble at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant. With cooling systems down, fuel rods have been exposed at the facility's Unit 2 reactor, and there was an explosion at Unit 3.

AP - Radiation has been released into the environment at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant following a third explosion at the facility. Japan's prime minister is telling residents who live within 19 miles of the facility to stay indoors.