At least 10 people have died and many more are feared trapped after a building containing a school collapsed in the Nigerian city of Lagos. The school, which was on the top floor of the four-storey building in Ita Faji on Lagos Island, had more than 100 pupils, a rescue official told

A major, frantic rescue operation was under way today after a three-storey building that contained a primary school in Nigeria collapsed with at least 100 students inside.  Video from the scene in the country's commercial capital Lagos on Wednesday showed at least one dust-covered

India has closed its airspace to the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft and has grounded the planes, according to a government order that came into effect at 4 pm Wednesday (Mar 13).  Last night, the aviation watchdog DGCA had announced that the planes would be grounded "immediately" for the

Around 3,000 Islamic State members have surrendered from the group's last holdout in Syria, Kurdish-led forces said Tuesday, as air raids and shelling resumed after a brief lull. A ragged tent encampment in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz is all that remains of a

Theresa May's EU withdrawal deal has been rejected by MPs by an overwhelming majority for a second time, with just 17 days to go to Brexit. MPs voted down the prime minister's deal by 149 - a smaller margin than when they rejected it in January. Mrs May said MPs will now get

A Chinese navy fighter jet crashed during a training mission Tuesday in the southern island province of Hainan, killing both pilots, the navy said. The crash took place in Ledong county in the mountainous and heavily forested tropical province and the cause was under investigation, the

MPs will vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal later after she secured "legally binding" changes to it following last-minute talks with the EU in Strasbourg. The PM said the changes meant the Irish backstop - the insurance policy designed to avoid a hard border in Ireland - could not

Heavy rains deluged Brazil's biggest city, causing flooding and other damage that resulted in the deaths of at least 12 people, authorities said Monday. Six people were reported injured. Sao Paulo's emergency center said it rained in one day almost a third of all precipitation

Singapore's Civil Aviation Authority (CAAS) has temporarily suspended all Boeing 737 Max models from flying into and out of the country. The decision comes after an Ethiopian Airlines Max 8 crashed on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board. It was the second fatal accident

A United Nations human rights investigator on Myanmar voiced deep concern on Monday at Bangladesh's plan to relocate 23,000 Rohingya refugees to Bhashan Char in April, saying that the island may not be habitable, creating a potential "new crisis". Yanghee Lee, U.N. special

US plane maker Boeing is facing questions after an Ethiopian Airlines 737 crash on Sunday killed all 157 people on board. It was the second crash in five months involving a 737 Max 8, and comparisons are being drawn with a Lion Air accident in Indonesia last October. In response,

Several airlines have grounded Boeing 737 Max 8 jets following a deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash. The flight crashed minutes after takeoff on Sunday, killing all 157 people on board. It was the second disaster in five months involving a Boeing 737 Max 8. China's aviation

India's general election will take place in seven phases between April and May, the Election Commission says. Polls to elect a new Lok Sabha, or lower house of parliament, will be held from 11 April to 19 May. Votes will be counted on 23 May. With 900 million eligible voters,

China's aviation regulator ordered local airlines to halt Boeing 737 Max 8 flights after a deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash using the same model. Airlines must suspend commercial operations of all Boeing 737 Max 8 planes by 18:00 local time (10:00 GMT). The Ethiopian Airlines

An Ethiopian Airlines spokesman confirmed that the Boeing 737 plane from Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa to Nairobi of Kenya had crashed on Sunday (March 10), killing all 157 people on board. Ethiopia's state broadcaster EBC reported everyone on the plane had died and that

Nine policemen have been killed in a militant attack in Myanmar's western Rakhine state, police said on Sunday (Mar 10), as tensions ratchet up in a state riven by ethnic and religious conflict. A bloody military crackdown in 2017 forced some 740,000 Rohingya Muslims over the

An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 passenger jet has crashed on a flight from Addis Ababa to Nairobi in Kenya. The flight is believed to have had 149 passengers and eight crew members on board, the airline says. A spokesman said the crash happened at 08.44 local time on Sunday,

At least 15 men died following a shooting at a nightclub in central Mexico, officials said Saturday. Another four people, three men and a woman, suffered injuries, a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office told Agence-France Presse. The club lies in Guanajuato state, where

Fourteen people were killed in a plane crash in the Colombian plains province of Meta on Saturday, the country's civil aviation agency said. The Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics said there were no survivors of the crash, which occurred after the DC-3 aircraft made a

Italy's ambassador to Pakistan has confirmed the deaths of two missing European mountain climbers on Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth-tallest mountain. Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo tweeted Saturday that the search for Italian Daniele Nardi and Briton Tom Ballard ended after a