Two trains have collided in Duisburg-Meiderich in Germany.

One person has been killed and at least 15 more were injured when two passenger trains crashed in the central Austrian town of Niklasdorf.

An Amtrak passenger train crashed into a parked freight train in the early-morning darkness on Sunday after a thrown switch sent it hurtling down a side track, US authorities said.

One person has died after a chartered train carrying dozens of politicians to a Republican policy retreat struck a refuse truck in a rural town in Virginia.

Two trains have collided near Vienna and several people have been injured, Austrian media have reported.

Four people have been seriously injured after a Spanish commuter train crashed into a barrier in a town near Madrid, authorities said.

Latest: A regional train has hit a school bus on a crossing in southern France, killing four children and critically injuring seven other people on the bus.

Around fifty people have been injured in a train crash near the German city of Dusseldorf.

Latest: The death toll from a train collision just east of the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria has been raised to 36 by the country's Health Ministry.

Two trains have collided in the South African capital Pretoria, injuring more than 100 people, paramedics said.

A train collision in northern Iran has killed at least 43 people and injured 100, state media reported.

US federal investigators have recovered one of the black box recorders from the wrecked commuter train at New Jersey's Hoboken station as inquiries continue into what caused it to crash, killing one person and injuring more than 100 others.

Update 11.05am: Police spokesman Stefan Sonntag has said that 150 people are injured in the crash, including 50 severely.

More than 300 people have been injured in a commuter train collision in South Africa.

An Amtrak passenger train derailed in Philadelphia, killing at least five people and injuring several dozen more.

A passenger train has derailed in northern India, killing 31 people and injuring dozens more.

More than 40 passengers were injured when an Amtrak train collided with a tractor-trailer that was stuck on the tracks in North Carolina.

A Los Angeles-bound commuter train slammed into a tractor trailer stopped on the tracks in Oxnard, California, during the morning rush hour yesterday, injuring more than 30 people, some of them seriously, authorities said.

Five people are injured after two trains collided in Rafz, north of Zurich in northern Switzerland.

Spanish authorities today finished forensic work on the remains of a group of partygoers killed by an express train as they crossed railway lines to reach a beach festival.

Spanish police have fined a woman who climbed down from a station platform and crossed railway lines hours after 13 people were killed and at least 14 injured by an express train at the same spot, officials said today.

Two trains collided today in north-eastern France close to the border with Luxembourg, killing at least four people, local officials and the French national rail operator said.

Two trains collided today in north-eastern France close to the border with Luxembourg, killing 10 people and injuring at least 20 others, authorities said.

At least 10 people were killed today in a train crash in north-eastern France close to the border with Luxembourg.

Government of north-east France’s Lorraine region says a train crash has killed 10 people.

Two people were being questioned today after a train crashed into a car deliberately abandoned on a crossing.

A driver’s skills may have saved lives after his train crashed into a car deliberately abandoned at a crossing in the North, police claimed today.

Police in Co Antrim are searching for two people suspected of deliberately trying to derail a train near Ballymoney last night.

An intercity passenger train collided with a bus in north-western Sri Lanka today, killing at least 50 people and injuring 40 others, police said.

Rescuers pulled the final survivors from the gnarled wreckage of Japan’s worst train crash in decades today as investigators raided rail operator offices for clues about why the train skidded from the tracks, killing 73 people.

A passenger train hit a trailer at a crossing in northern Japan and derailed today, injuring at least one person, police said.

Rescuers today pulled three people believed to be the last survivors from the wreckage of Japan’s worst rail accident in four decades, and raised the death toll to 73 as they found more bodies inside twisted metal train cars.

Two stationmasters and an engineer face criminal charges today after a head-on train crash that killed at least 37 people in northern India was blamed on a communications blunder.

At least 139 people were killed and 57 other injured when a high-speed train from Istanbul to Ankara derailed today, the government crisis centre said.

A high-speed train from Istanbul to Ankara derailed tonight, killing 128 people, the Turkish health ministry said.

A high-speed train derailed in Turkey tonight, killing up to 70 people and injuring some 30 others.

North Korea declared a state of emergency tonight after as many as 3,000 people were killed or injured when two fuel trains collided and exploded at a station near the Chinese border.

A state of emergency was declared in North Korea after two trains carrying highly inflammable freight collided and exploded, killing or injuring up to 3,000 people.

A train carrying fuel and industrial chemicals exploded in northeastern Iran today, killing more than 200 people and destroying five villages.

Five Iranian villages have been destroyed near the site of the train explosion, official news agency IRNA reports.

More than 200 people have been killed when petrol wagons exploded on a train in northeast Iran, the IRNA news agency has said.

Five people have been injured after a Tube train derailed at London's Camden Town underground station.

Three people were killed and up to seven others seriously injured today when the minibus they were travelling in collided with a London intercity train.

Indian officials have said at least 18 people were been killed when a train fell off a bridge today.