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Train Crashes Through Buffers at Busy London Station

Two people were injured when a train crashed through buffers at a station. The incident involved a London Overground service at Enfield Town station, north London, during rush hour on Tuesday morning. Images posted on social media show the train remained upright but came off the tracks and stopped just short of hitting a station…


Plane Crashes Into Building Near Milan; All 8 Aboard Die

ROME—A small, single-engine plane carrying six passengers and a crew of two crashed Sunday into a vacant two-story office building in a Milan suburb, and authorities said all eight people aboard died. Investigators opened a probe into what caused the private plane to crash shortly after takeoff from Milan’s Linate Airport en route to Olbia…


Hungary Bus Crash Kills 8, Injures Dozens

BUDAPEST, Hungary—A bus traveling on a highway in Hungary crashed through a guardrail and tipped over early Sunday, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens, police said. The crash occurred on Hungary’s M7 highway near the town of Szabadbattyan, between the capital, Budapest, and Lake Balaton, at just before 5 a.m. Sunday morning. The…


9 Killed When Skydiving Plane Crashes in Sweden

COPENHAGEN, Denmark—A small plane carrying skydivers crashed outside the Swedish city of Orebro on Thursday night, killing all nine people on board, police said. The dead included the pilot and eight passengers, police said. The victims were members of a local skydiving club, according to Orebro County Governor Maria Larsson. Spokesperson Carl-Johan Linde of the…


Site of 1944 Bomber Crash in UK Being Dug Up in Effort to Bring US Air Crew Home

A team of American veterans are digging up a field in Sussex, United Kingdom, where a bomber plane crashed during the Second World War in an effort to finally bring their fallen compatriots home. In June 1944—two weeks after Allied troops landed in France on D-Day—a B-24 Liberator was in a group conducting a bombing…


Zimbabwe Air Force Helicopter Crashes Into House, 4 Killed Including Child

HARARE—An Air Force of Zimbabwe helicopter crashed on Friday, killing three crew members and a child on the ground as it came down on a house, the Air Force said in a statement. The helicopter was on a training mission, with two pilots and a technician when it disappeared on the radar. It came down…


Divers Recover ‘Black Box’ From Crashed Indonesia Plane

JAKARTA, Indonesia—Indonesian navy divers searching the ocean floor on Tuesday recovered the flight data recorder from a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea with 62 people on board. The device is expected to help investigators determine what caused the Boeing 737-500 plane to nosedive into the ocean in heavy rain shortly after…