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A loud explosion was reported at Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) in Mangaluru city, India on Wednesday, with thick black smoke seen rising from the site, local media reported.
The cause of the explosion & details about any damage were not immediately reported.
Over 30 shops were destroyed after fire engulfed a furniture market in Karachi’s Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Pakistan in the early hours of Friday, October 30, 2026.
No injuries were reported, according to police and rescue services officials; the fire was later brought under control.
Five crew members and a pilot were killed on Friday afternoon after a helicopter carrying them from the temple town of Badrinath crashed near Chayee village in Uttarakhand's Chamoli district, India officials said.
The cause of the crash has not been established so far.
A heart-broken father of a 15-year-old boy who was shot and killed in Bronx says his son had spent on a year in the United States.
He said his son had complained to his school principal about two boys bullying him, who were suspended.
Germany records highest suicide deaths, as over 11,000 die by suicide in 2025, according to figures released on Wednesday in Kassel by the National Suicide Prevention Programme.
Men accounted for 7,846 deaths in 2025, or 69.2% of the total. Women accounted for 3,488 deaths, or 30.8%.
LATEST: Suspected North Korean hackers hit Binance with $6.3bn crypto hack.
Binance said on Thursday October 29 that hackers accessed about $6.3bn in digital assets after breaching an engineer's compromised laptop.
The crypto exchange company said about half of those assets had been frozen but that many remained in the hands of the hackers, adding that it will "cover all losses".
Philippines raised its volcano alert level for Mount Mayon after a moderately explosive eruption sent plumes of ash smoke to the sky on Friday October 30.
Authorities have urged people to evacuate from within a 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) radius.
#BREAKING British actor Sir Patrick Stewart has died at the age of 86, his family announced.
The legendary actor was best known for his roles as Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men and Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek.
#BREAKING Four crew members were killed and 11 injured after Italian CH-47 Chinook helicopter with the European Union peacekeeping force crashed near Brčko, Bosnia on Thursday in the country's north.
#NEWS Israeli police have arrested 7 suspects, including 3 school principals, in alleged vote-buying scheme involving Mansour Abbas’s Ra’am party, as Netanyahu's Likud party prepared to challenge election results at polling stations where it alleges bribery and other violations occurred.
JUST IN: At least two people were killed and one was injured on Thursday when rocks broke off a fairy chimney and fell near the Goreme Open-Air Museum in Türkiye’s Cappadocia region.
Two of the victims are Turkish citizens and one is a tourist.
#BREAKING At least two people have been killed, dozens injured, including three children after Russian banderol missile struck the center of Chernihiv in Ukraine on October 29, according to local media.
#BREAKING Armenian lawmakers exchange punches during a parliamentary session on Thursday, leaving several injured and forcing security officers to intervene after accusations and insulting remarks between ruling party and opposition lawmakers.
French travel influencer Emma Marie Laurent 24 has died after her van was swept away in a river while on vacation in Nicaragua.
Marie drowned alongside a Swiss woman 20, #Nicaraguan woman 19 and the driver after their pickup was swept away while crossing a rain-swollen river.
#Shocking Uganda 🇺🇬 have arrested a man identified as Mujurizi Moses, accused of killing and eating 38 people over a 15-year period (between 2010 - 2020), Ugandab military chief General Muhuzi Kainerugaba announced on October 27.
"We will try him publicly and we will definitely execute him," The general said.
#IsraelElections
ISRAELI ELECTION RESULT UPDATE
PM Netanyahu's bloc: 53 seats
Eisenkot's bloc: 48 seats
Arab parties: 19 seats
About 98% of votes have been counted.
JUST IN: North Korea test-fired around 10 short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
#BREAKING Israel Police says they have no intelligence-based evidence supporting PM Netanyahu and Likud’s allegations that Arab parties stole the election; after the party demanded an investigation into alleged widespread voting irregularities.
#BREAKING Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel election was stolen by Arab parties, calls for investigation and prosecution:
"The elections in the State of Israel were stolen by Arab parties that support terrorism and the elimination of the Jewish state through serious criminal offences of bribery, threats, violence, forgery and the use of prohibited software to mobilize voters...
We demand from the police and the Shin Bet a thorough investigation into the election theft by Arab parties and full prosecution of the criminals." Netanyahu said in a post on X.