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An Iranian official says a Japanese oil tanker has been damaged in Oman's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf following an explosion.

"The fire which was triggered by an explosion on the deck of the vessel was contained with the help of the crew and regional forces," Fars News Agency quoted head of marine department of southern Hormozgan Province, Ali Akbar Saffai, as saying on Wednesday.

A Lufthansa cargo plane has been broken into two pieces after crashing at the Saudi capital's international airport, the kingdom's civil aviation authority says.

A spokesman for the General Authority of Civil Aviation said on Tuesday that the pilot and co-pilot were injured in the incident and were taken to hospital.

A bus carrying over 25 passengers has veered off a mountain road and fallen into a river in the Kishtwar district of Jammu region in Indian Kashmir.

Initial reports say that only two passengers, who had been riding on the roof of the vehicle, managed to leap to safety, a Press TV correspondent reported.

A popular Alpine tourist train, the Glacier Express, has derailed in southern Switzerland, killing one person and injuring almost 40 others.

“Six of the injured were in a serious condition,” AFP quoted spokesman for police in Valais Jean-Marie Bornet as saying.

A United Airlines passenger jet flying from Washington, D.C.'s, Dulles International to Los Angeles has hit heavy turbulence, leaving around 30 people on board wounded.

The Flight 967, a Boeing 777, had to divert to Denver International Airport after experiencing trouble about 60 miles (96 km) southeast of Kansas City, Mo. Tuesday night.

Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, has one of the highest rates of traffic accidents in the world. Its roads are dominated by thousands of old and dangerous vehicles, which police are now trying to get rid of. Among the old vehicles are dilapidated public buses, that many Bangladeshis say are the cheapest way to get around. Al Jazeera's Nicolas Haque reports.

A bomb alert on an Air France jumbo jet en route to Paris has been proved false after it landed in Recife on Brazil's Atlantic coast, the airline says.

The aircraft carrying 405 passengers and 18 crew members was flying from Brazil's Rio de Janeiro to Paris when the control tower received a bomb threat.

A plane crash in northern Mexico has left eight people dead, including a mayor and a local official.

The Mexican officials were on their way to the state of Nuevo Leon in northern Mexico on Thursday to see the damage caused by hurricane Alex.

China has opened its largest comprehensive maritime museum and the world's largest professional maritime museum in the city of Shanghai.

The Shanghai-China maritime museum was opened during a ceremony in Shanghai's Pudong district on July 6, 2010, Xinhua reported.

At least eleven people have been killed and three injured after a Romanian military plane crashed near the Black Sea, the country's Defense Ministry has announced.

The Antonov 2, which was on a training mission, lost altitude and crashed near Tuzla Romania Airport shortly after takeoff on Monday.