At least nine people, eight of them teenagers, were killed and 15 injured when a speeding train ploughed through a tractor-trolley at an unmanned railway crossing near Shivrajpur, 50-km from Kanpur, on Tuesday.

Rivers of mud swamped houses, stores and at least one school after heavy rains in this Central African country, killing at least 70 people with some 250 still missing, officials and a survivor said on Tuesday.

A SeaWorld killer whale snatched a trainer from a poolside platform Wednesday in its jaws and thrashed the woman around underwater, killing her in front of a horrified audience.

The explosion at the Kleen Energy Systems plant in Middletown, about 20 miles south of Hartford, could be heard and felt for miles.

Eight workers, including three officers, were hospitalised following a gas leak in one of the blast furnaces of the Rourkela Steel Plant on Sunday.