7 dead in small plane crash in Canada
Toronto (Canada): Five Americans and two Canadians were killed when a light aircraft crashed in a wooded area on the north shore of Lake Ontario, Canada’s transport safety agency said Thursday.
Russia test-fires Topol strategic missile
Moscow: The Russian Strategic Missile Forces has successfully test-fired Topol intercontinental ballistic missile from the Kapustin Yar firing range in south Russia’s Astrakhan region, the Russian Defence Ministry said.
Trespassing in China Sea: China slams US
Beijing: China has slammed US warships and military aircraft’s “willful and repeated trespassing” into the adjacent waters and airspace of China’s islands and reefs in the South China Sea.
Albania quake toll rises to 49
Tirana: Forty-nine people died and more than 5,000 have been displaced by the violent earthquake that pulverised homes in Albania this week, the Prime Minister said in a tally of the damage on Friday.