On Monday at a conference call the CEO of South Caucasus Railway summarized the outcome of the railroad in the first quarter of 2013. According to the data by the CEO in the first quarter of this year the Company managed to maintain a positive trend in SCR. For example, the amount of load increased by 11% compared to the same period last year, while the volume of traffic...
Two pilots were killed yesterday after their plane crashed into the sea during an air show in the Dominican Republic.
Carlos Manuel Guerrero and Rafael Sanchez, both Dominican military pilots, were taking part in the ‘Air Show of the Caribbean’ in the country’s capital Santo Domingo, on the coast.
They lost charge of their small plane during stunt manoeuvres,...
Seven workers have died while cleaning a tank at one of Mexico’s main breweries.
The group were killed at the Grupo Modelo plant in Mexico City where Corona – one of America’s favourite imported beers – is made.
An investigation is looking into whether they were overcome by toxic fumes during the incident yesterday.
Plant manager Francisco Lopez...
North Korea today released a bizarre video of their military dogs attacking an effigy of an enemy minister and again threatened to attack their neighbours.
The animals savage a model of South Korean defence minister Kim Kwan-Jin in the propaganda clip shown on state television.
In the video, the military dogs can also be seen jumping through a flaming hole as they are...
Israel shut a crossing with Gaza after rockets were fired from the Hamas-ruled territory at the Jewish state on the day it commemorated the Holocaust.
The military said it closed the Kerem Shalom terminal Monday. Another crossing would be open for humanitarian cases only, it said.
Israel has blockaded the coastal territory since the Islamic militant Hamas took over in...
The Italian Foreign Ministry says that four Italian journalists have been detained in Syria.
The Foreign Ministry on Saturday said that they are in touch with the families of the journalists but declined to say who have detained them or release further details out of concern for their safety.
Italian media have reported that the four are a RAI public television reporter...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been discharged from the hospital after being treated for pneumonia.
According to current South Africa President Jacob Zuma, Mandela has been steadily improving during his nearly two weeks of being hospitalized.
In a statement Saturday, Zuma thanked “the hard working medical team and hospital staff for looking after...