Four workers died after falling into a sewage pipe near Tokyo while inspecting a sewage discharge, Japanese officials said. The local firefighters, all men in their 50s, were inspecting a drain in Gyoda City, Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, on Saturday (August 2) when one man fell into the drain, prompting three others to try to rescue him,

The Krasheninnikov volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, near the site of last week's 8.8-magnitude earthquake, has erupted for the first time after more than 450 years of dormancy. Russia's national emergency services said on Monday (August 3) that a volcano in Russia's far eastern Kamchatka region erupted for the first time in 450 years, ju

Cambodia's Ministry of Interior has banned drone flights in 10 provinces bordering Thailand for 15 days, citing national security concerns. On Sunday evening, August 3, 2015, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sor Sokha issued an urgent order banning the use of drones in 10 provinces bordering Thailand and nearby areas for

A fire broke out at a major oil terminal near the Russian city of Sochi, with authorities blaming a Ukrainian drone strike overnight. Veniamin Kondratyev, governor of Russia's westernmost Krasnodar region, said on Sunday, August 3, 2015, that the remains of a Ukrainian drone crashed into a fuel tank at an oil depot near Sochi, sparking a fire th

Foreign news agencies reported that on Sunday, August 3, 2015, police were called to a bus terminal in Kaiwaka, about 100 km from Auckland, New Zealand, after the bus driver noticed that a suitcase, which was stored in the storage compartment under the bus, "moved" and when he opened it, he found a girl about two years old inside. ufabet888