Suicide attackers in a truck launched an assault Tuesday night on the luxury Pearl Continental Hotel on Tuesday night. The attackers stormed past guards, firing guns as they did, before setting off a huge explosion that killed at least eleven people and wounded dozens more.

Three people were reported missing and 20 injured Tuesday after an explosion ripped through a Slim Jim processing plant. The plant was in Garner, NC, just south of Raleigh.

There has been a massive explosion in downtown Bozeman, Montana. It has collapsed 3 buildings, and a two-block area has been evacuated.

Four people were killed, including two foreigners (one id3entified as a French woman, the other unknown), in a blast near a popular tourist area in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday.

A bomb blew up in South Ossetia, which is Georgia's Russia-backed separatist region. The explosion killed two police officers and wounded at least 10 civilians Thursday, an official said.

A dreadful explosion rocked an oil refinery in Texas. A violent blast shook buildings kilometers away Monday morning. At least one person injured.

Dozens workers were injured in a night explosion that rocked a sugar dust refinery in Georgia. Waterfront facility burst into flame. Firefighters still were fighting the fire Friday morning. Six people are missing.

Saudi Arabia's state oil company officials stated on Tuesday that the death toll from a national gas pipeline blast last weekend has now reached more than 40 people.

Emergency services have evacuated several homes amid fears a burning grain silo could explode, near Tamworth, in northern New South Wales. Thermal imaging equipment is being used to determine the extent of a fire in a grain silo near Tamworth, which has forced the evacuation of surrounding area residents.

Most people think of Sir Isaac Newton as the father of gravity. But for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory physicist Henry Chapman and his colleagues, Newton's “dusty mirror” experiment served as a launching pad for them to keenly watch the X-ray induced explosion of microscopic objects.

A series of powerful explosions rocked Maputo airport in Mozambique on Thursday afternoon, as once again obsolete military equipment stored in an arsenal of the Mozambican Armed Forces (FADM) in the outer suburb of Malhazine blew up.