Pakistani rescue workers look for survivors at the site of plane crashed in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A government official says all 152 people on board the plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)Airblue crashed in Pakistan.A Pakistan helicopter picks dead bodies from the site of plane crash in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A government official says all 152 people on board the plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)Pakistani rescue workers attend the of a plane crash in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A government official says all the people on board the plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)Pakistani rescue visit the site of a plane crash in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. The passenger jet carrying 152 people crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital amid rain Wednesday, officials said. (AP Photo)Airblue crashed in Pakistan.Airblue crashed in Pakistan.
The plane was close to the airport when it caught fire and the engines stopped working.
Then it crashed and split into two halves.
The plane came from Frankfurt to Riyadh and was on the way to Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and then to Hong Kong.
I think it was lucky that the pilot and co- pilot were not killed in the crash.
In the Fedex plane crash in China on March 23, 2009 the pilot ad co-pilot were killed.
Lufthansa cargo plane crashed in Riyadh.LA man is seen standing on top of the wreckage of a Lufthansa cargo plane which caught fire and split in half as it was landing in the capital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The German pilot and co-pilot of Flight 8460, which was carrying about 90 tons of unspecified cargo, were lightly injured, an airport official said. (AP Photo)The wreckage of a Lufthansa cargo plane which caught fire and split in half as it was landing lies on the tarmac in the capital Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The German pilot and co-pilot of Flight 8460, which was carrying about 90 tons of unspecified cargo, were lightly injured, an airport official said. (AP Photo)
2 people were killed when the very strong wind knocked down a wall.
It then weaken to a tropical storm.
In Hong Kong the heavy rain caused a bad flood and killed 1 person.
This is the worst storm that hit Hong Kong in 30 years.
The storm will cause heavy rain as it continue its journey to other parts of China.
High winds brought by the Typhoon Chanthu, July 22, 2010. ( Xinhua )A flooded road in Haikou, the capital of Hainan province after hit by Typhoon Chanthu, July 22, 2010. ( Xinhua )
A flooded road in Quanzhou in Fujian province, July 22, 2010. ( Photo: CFP )Dark cloud in the sky over Zhuhai, in Guangdong province South China after Typhoon Chanthu lands on the province on July 22, 2010. (Xinhua)Surge caused by Typhoon Chanthu on the Hailin Island,Yangjang,Guangdong in South China, July 22, 2010. (Photo CFP)
Glacier Express derailed in Fiesch, Switzerland, Friday 23, July 2010. (REUTERS/Police Valais/Handout0)
Glacier Express train accident in Fiesch, Switzerland. Friday July 23, 2010. (REUTERS/Police Valais/Handout)
A senior fire fighter looking at a damaged carriage of a Glacier Express passenger train at the accident site, Friday July 23,2010. (AP Photo/Keystone/Jean-Christophe Bott)Rescue workers and paramedics load an injured person on board of a rescue helicopter after a train accident in Fiesch, Switzerland, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Keystone/Jean-Christophe Bott)Rescuers give an interview in front of damaged carriages of a Glacier Express passenger train at the accident site in Fiesch, Switzerland, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Keystone/Jean-Christophe Bott)A fire fighter is looking at a damaged carriage of a Glacier Express passenger train at the accident site in Fiesch, Switzerland, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Keystone/Jean-Christophe Bott)
(100720) -- YICHANG, July 20, 2010 (Xinhua) -- Flood waters are sluiced with the water outflux monitored at 40,000 cubic meters per second at Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province, July 20, 2010. China's Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River stood its biggest flood-control test at 8 a.m. Tuesday since completion, as the flow on the river's upper reaches topped 70,000 cubic meters a second. All ferry services were halted at the Three Gorges Dam on Monday, and would be resumed after the influx decreased to 45,000 cubic meters per second. (Xinhua/Cheng Min) (zgp)(100720) -- YICHANG, July 20, 2010 (Xinhua) -- Flood waters are sluiced at the Three Gorges Dam, China. (Xinhua/Cheng Min) (zgp)
(100720) -- YICHANG, July 20, 2010 (Xinhua) -- Journalists take photos of the scene of flood discharge at Three Gorges Dam, July 20, 2010. (Xinhua/Cheng Min) (zgp)The Three Gorges Dam discharges water to lower the level in a reservoir, July 19, 2010.( Reuters/ Stringer)The Three Gorges Dam discharges water to lower the level in a reservoir, July 19, 2010.( Reuters/ Stringer)Flood water is released from the Three Gorges Dam's floodgates in Yichang, in central China's Hubei province, Tuesday, July 20, 2010. Rescuers in China were searching Tuesday for 30 people buried in landslides as flood waters from days of heavy rain surged past the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **In this photo taken Tuesday, July 13, 2010, rescue workers evacuate villagers trapped by flood waters in Anqing in central China's Anhui province. Parts of China experience annual flooding but this year's rains have been particularly devastating. Storms so far this month have caused economic losses of 22.2 billion yuan ($3.3 billion), the Ministry of Civil Affairs said on its website on Wednesday.(AP Photo)**CHINA OUT**In this Monday, July 12, 2010 photo, electric poles are damaged and a bulldozer washed away by flood in Tongcheng, in central China's Anhui province. Landslides slammed into three mountain hamlets in western China early Tuesday, killing 17 people and leaving 44 missing, while crews drained a fast-rising reservoir in another part of the country following heavy rains. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **Chinese rescuers arrive in the flooded Chongqing Municipality. (AFP/AFP)
Oil spill caused serious water pollution and can pollute the lands around it.
It can kill animals such as fish, crab, clam and birds.
It can kill plants too.
Cleaning oil spill is hard and very expensive.
Below are photos of the oil spill in China from Yahoo News.
A view shows crude oil in the sea near Dalian, Liaoning province, July 18, 2010. REUTERS/China DailyCleaning up the oil spill in northeast China's Liaoning Province.(100718) -- DALIAN, July 18, 2010 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on July 17, 2010 shows an aerial view of leaked oil floating off the coast of Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province. A 0.9-meter-diameter oil pipeline exploded at 6 p.m. Friday near Dalian's Xingang Harbor, triggering an adjacent smaller pipeline to explode too. The oil leak seriously polluted 11 square kilometers of sea and slightly affected 50 square kilometers also, according to local environment protection bureau. (Xinhua/Tian Jingyue) (wqq)In this photo taken Sunday, July 18, 2010, a Chinese worker tries to soak up oil from a spill in the sea near Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning province. Efforts were under way to contain and clean up a large oil slick after pipeline explosions at a northeastern Chinese port sent greasy black plumes into the ocean, state media reported Sunday. (AP Photo) ** CHINA OUT **Oil spill polluting the water.
The speeding Uttarbanga Express hit the Vananchal Express that was not moving.
The impact of the accident was so strong that the roof of one car flew into the air.
It landed on an overpass above the track.
So far, 61 bodies were found at the crash site; including 2 drivers of the
Uttarbanga Express.
125 people were injured.
The local people said that the rescue teams arrived about 3 hours after the accident.
The police said that they arrived within an hour after the accident.
It is not good if the rescue teams arrive late when there is an accident.
Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, who rushed to the site, said that the crash could have been a sabotage.
A speeding express train collided with a passenger train at the station in eastern India early Monday, July 19, 2010 mangling the carriages and killing scores of people, railway police said. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)Locals trying to help searching for victims in the train accident, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)bThe roof of Uttarbanga Express is seen on top of Vananchal Express as rescue workers search for survivors at the site of an accident at Sainthia station, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) north of Calcutta, India, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)A part of the Vananchal Express is seen on an overpass above the tracks at Sainthia station. Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)A rescue worker walks past the tangled trains at the site of an accident, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)Local residents and rescue workers search for survivors at the site of an accident, Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)Indian rescue workers take out the body of the train driver at the site of an accident. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)Local residents and rescue workers search for survivors at the site of an accident. Monday, July 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
A blanket of ice covers strawberries Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2010, in Plant City, Fla. Farmers spray their crops to help protect them against the cold temperatures. Temperatures in the area dipped into the mid-20's, and farmers are working to salvage millions of dollars' worth of strawberries and other crops. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Now Japan, Serbia, Germany, Italy, U.S.A.,Hungary, Russia and Poland are being hit by very hot weather and heat wave.
And people get into the rivers, fountains, beaches, sprinkles and others places where there are water to cool off 🙂
,In Belgrade, Serbia people crowd a swimming pool to cool off Saturday,July 17,2010.A boy enjoys splash at Tokyo park Saturday, July 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)Kids play in a water park in Indianapolis, Friday, July 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)Tubers float down the lower Salt River Friday, July 16, 2010 in the Tonto National Park in near Mesa, Ariz. Temperatures are expected to hit 115 today with an excessive heat warning for the Phoenix metro area. (AP Photo/Matt York) Tourists cool down themselves in a fountain at the central Prague's Wenceslas Square.(AP Photo)Cooling down at All-Russian Exhibition Centre, Moscow Friday July 16,2010. (AP Photo)Cool off with a sprinkler system on the lawn of Mariannenplatz in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo)Vitus the polar bear trying to cool off at a zoo in Budapest, Hungary. (AP Photo)People cooling off in a fountain in central Moscow in Russia. (AP Photo)A tourist cools off his head into a fountain in Rome's People square, Friday, July 16, 2010, as temperatures are expected to reach 38 Celsius degrees (100.4 Fahrenheit) over the week-end in central and northern Italy. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)A man swims in a fountain outside the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, July 16, 2010. A heat wave hit central Russia with temperatures rising above 30C (86F) breaking temperature records. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev)Boys ride bicycles at a fountain try to cool themselves in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, about 1500 kilometers (900 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 15, 2010.A heat wave hit central Russsia and Ural breaking temperature records going higher than 30 C (86 F). (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)Cooling off in a fountain in Minsk, Belarus. (AP Photo)People cool off at the Santa Monica Beach in Santa Monica , Calif., Wednesday, July 14, 2010. The first significant heat wave of the year is expected to intensify Wednesday in Los Angeles with temperatures climbing into the mid to upper 90s. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
These are some of the latest violence in today’s Yahoo News.
The photos are also from Yahoo News.
Mexico
Lots and lots of people were killed in Mexican drug war.
Three people were killed in a car bomb by drug seller this week.
Car bomb exploded in Mexico.Drug gang used car bomb to attack police.COMMERCE-CA-JULY 12, 2010: Bundles of marijuana extracted from a rail car are laid alongside tracks at part of the Union Pacific rail yard in the City of Commerce on Monday, July 12, 2010. (Christina House / POOL PHOTO)The remains of a vehicle are cordoned off in a street in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Friday July 16, 2010. Mexican investigators ran forensic tests to determine whether drug gangs used a car bomb in an attack on police patrol trucks that killed two officers and wounded nine people on Thursday. A car bomb would mark an unprecedented escalation of Mexico's drug war and confirm long-standing fears that the cartels are turning to explosives in their fight against security forces. (AP Photo)
Pakistan
A lot of people were killed in bomb attacks and by guns all over Pakistan.
On Saturday 18 passengers were killed in northeastern Pakistan.
Family members a person injured by a bomb blast, bring him at a local hospital in Pakistani tribal of area of Jamrud, Friday, July 16, 2010. A powerful bomb blast ripped through a busy market in an area along the Afghan border Friday, killing at least many people and wounding 15 others, a Pakistani official said.(AP photo/Qazi Rauf)Pakistani hospital staff attend a person injured by a bomb blast, at a local hospital in Pakistani tribal of area of Jamrud, Friday, July 16, 2010. A powerful bomb blast ripped through a busy market in an area along the Afghan border Friday, killing at least many people and wounding 15 others, a Pakistani official said.(AP photo/Qazi Rauf)Violence in Pakistan.Can we stop hurting each other?A boy injured in a hospital in Pakistan.
Iraq
28 people were killed in a hotel fire in Iraq’s Kurdish region.
The fire was at the ‘Hotel Soma’.
Some hotel guests jumped out from upper floors to save themselves.
More human-made disaster in Iraq.Hotel Soma.Fire in Hotel Soma.Firemen trying to stop the fire A view of fire damage at Soma Hotel in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniya, 260 km (162 miles) northeast of Baghdad July 16, 2010. The fire, possibly triggered by a gas leak, killed 30 people, including foreigners, and injured at least 22 others, police said on Friday. REUTERS/Sherko Raouf