Disaster

New data from a French satellite shows potential debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines jet in the southern Indian Ocean, Sunday.

An earthquake with a 6.2 magnitude has rocked Chile's northern coastline, but no damage has been reported.

No tsunami warning is to be issued for now, Al Jazeera has reported.

Earlier this week, a 6.7-magnitude earthquake shook Chile’s northern Pacific shore on Sunday, causing the evacuation of more than 100,000 people.

The popular island destination of Myconos faces a serious drought risk this summer unless immediate measures are taken to avert water shortages, Skai understands.

The water levels at the island's main reservoir are exceptionally low and sources indicate that a new desalination plant is needed.

At least 9 people have been killed and several more injured when a passenger train collided with a minibus at a crossing near the Mediterranean port city of Mersin.

The accident happened on Thursday morning, when a shuttle bus was passing through a railway crossing near an industrial zone between the cities of Mersin and Tarsus, the Hurriyet Daily reports.

Australian satellites have detected objects that may be part of the missing Malaysia Air jetliner.

Two objects of considerable size, one as large as 24 meters, have been spotted in the southern Indian Ocean, off the western coast of Perth, Euronews reveals.

A huge fire has broken out in Macedonia only 1 km away from the Bulgarian border, Wednesday afternoon.

The fire was located close to the border checkpoint of Stanke Lisichkovo near Bulgaria's Blagoevgrad.

Sofia Airport registered a 9% year-on-year increase in the number of processed passengers in February 2014.

In February 2014, Sofia Airport processed a total of 258 709 passengers, up by 21 000 from February 2013, according to a media statement of the airport.

A mother and son testified how Bosnian Serb fighters burst into their house near Kljuc in 1992, opened fire and abducted one of their relatives, who was later found dead.

Two children, a girl and a boy, and three women were among seven migrants who drowned off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos in the early hours of Tuesday when the plastic boat that was carrying them from Turkey to Greece took on water, the state-run Athens-Macedonia News Agency has confirmed.

Eight Chinese crew members are missing and one is in a critical condition after two cargo ships collided off Japan, Tuesday.

The Panamanian-flagged Beagle III vessel crashed into the South Korean-registered Pegasus Prime, causing it to sink, the CNN reports.