At least 27 people were killed and 13 others injured when a tanker truck exploded on a mountain road in the southern Philippines, police said today.

A fire blamed on illegally sold firecrackers swept through a department store in the central Philippines on Christmas Day, killing 24 people who tried to escape in a restroom, police said today.

At least 24 people died in a Christmas Day fire that engulfed a department store in the central Philippines.

Suspected Tamil rebels posing as fishermen blew up two of their boats in a suicide ambush on a naval base, killing at least one navy sailor in the first such attack on Sri Lanka's touristy southern coast, the military said.

A SENIOR policeman went on the rampage in South Africa, killing four colleagues, three women and a baby before being shot dead himself.

An explosion inside a grocery shop killed at least eight people and wounded about a dozen others today on a violent southern island in the Philippines.

A passenger train has derailed and tumbled into a ravine, killing at least 10 people and injuring 120, Philippine officials said today.

Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson was tonight preparing to fly back to Britain after police investigating an alleged indecent assault said there was nothing to stop him leaving South Africa.

At least 12 people died and 27 were injured today when a bomb exploded at a busy department store in the southern Philippines city of General Santos, police said.