Eleven people have been killed after a fire at a Japanese residential facility for people in financial difficulty.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two women were killed in a fire that broke out in a house in Ha Noi’s Hai Ba Trung District in the early hours today.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fire broke out in two houses in two different parts of Ha Noi today. No injuries were reported.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dilapidated houses and new buildings with illegal extensions of steel frames have become a headache for local authorities in Ha Noi, with the buildings at high risk of fire and difficult for firefighters to access.

 More than 1,600 firefighters battled on Monday to contain a fast-spreading wildfire that has forced hundreds of evacuations in the drought-parched canyons north of Los Angeles, destroying 18 homes, killing at least one person

Fighting massive forest fires is dangerous and taxing enough, but those sent into Canada’s oil sands are not only wrestling with one of the worst wildfires in the country’s history. They are doing it surrounded by the volatile, explosive chemicals

 Canadian officials showed some optimism on Sunday they were beginning to get on top of the country's most destructive wildfire in recent memory, as favorable weather helped firefighters and winds took the flames southeast,

The Canadian province of Alberta raced to evacuate the entire population of Fort McMurray where an uncontrolled wildfire was taking hold in the heart of the country's oil sands region, with dry winds forecast for Wednesday that could fuel the blaze.

More than 100 homes burned down in a leading Australian tourist area in bushfires on Christmas Day and the situation remained dangerous on Saturday, as officials predicted more blazes to come later in the hot southern summer.  

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hundreds of firefighters battled a blaze that devastated at least eight houses and caused chaos for many hours in central HCM City yesterday, Dec 1st.

 Fires are still burning at the site of two massive explosions in the Chinese city of Tianjin, some 36 hours after the blasts.

 At least 44 people are now known to have died, and more than 500 injured, following two major explosions in China's northern port city of Tianjin.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Five persons, including two elderly and one child, were killed in a huge blaze that destroyed a house in alley 190 of Hoang Mai Road, Hoang Mai District, Ha Noi, early this morning.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ha Noi was not equipped or prepared to put out fires, as evidenced by the 126 fires and 18 fire-related deaths so far in 2014.

 Efforts to recover the bodies of at least 24 climbers have been suspended again after the eruption on Japan's Mount Ontake intensified.

 An An-12 cargo plane crashed en route from Novosibirsk to Irkutsk in Russia's Southern Siberia, killing at least five crew members onboard, local emergency authorities said Thursday.

 At least four people were killed and 67 others injured when a passenger train derailed in New York City borough of Bronx Sunday morning.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At least six people were killed and many others fainted in a fire at Fuse Bar yesterday, Nov 19.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A large fire at a factory in HCM City's Tan Tao Industrial Park has been successfully stamped out after firefighters spent five hours tackling the blaze.