December 2024
Ukraine kills Russia’s nuclear forces boss with e-scooter bomb
An explosive device planted near a Moscow apartment building slayed Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov.
September 2024
Hundreds of pagers exploded in Lebanon and Syria. Here’s what we know
Tiny explosive hardware may have been built into the devices before their delivery to Hezbollah, and then all remotely triggered simultaneously.
February 2024
$300m insurance claim goes boom after power station explosion
CS Energy, which maintains it could not have foreseen a power station explosion, says insurers haven’t paid up claims yet. So it’s off to court.
June 2021
‘Unacceptable risk’ as miner pays CEO $580k safety bonus
Coal mining giant Anglo American was subject to scathing findings in a government-initiated inquiry into an explosion at a Queensland mine.
December 2020
'The world is never going to forget me': A quiet life, a fiery death
Authorities are still struggling to work out why 63-year-old Anthony Quinn Warner blew himself up in a campervan in downtown Nashville on Christmas Day.
August 2020
‘This is Lebanon, this is our destiny’
A pair of gigantic blasts that obliterated Beirut’s port and smashed the city centre is the last thing Lebanon needed.
Beirut explosions create a dilemma for the world
How do governments help a country, which badly needs assistance, without empowering its corrupt political elite?
Australia pledges $2m in aid to Beirut recovery effort
Prime Minister Hassan Diab declared three days of mourning from Thursday, as countries around the world joined Australia in rallying to Lebanon's cause.
Large blast rocks Beirut, one Australian killed
More than 70 people were killed and nearly 4000 injured as windows shattered and apartment balconies collapsed across the city.