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A Malaysian CEO was killed after his mobile phone allegedly exploded while charging, according to a report.

London police have arrested a man on suspicion of causing an explosion after a small blast at Southgate station caused a stampede, injuring five. The 23-year-old male was arrested Wednesday and held on suspicion of an act likely to cause an

Local and federal authorities are investigating an apparent explosion outside of a church and school campus in Beaumont, Texas.

BRUSSELS (AP) — A small blast caused a brief panic at the busy Brussels Midi train station and forced two platforms to close.

LONDON (AP) — Five people have died of injuries from an explosion that caused the collapse of a building in the central England city of Leicester, police said Monday.

A customer at a Chinese electronics store came face-to-face with an exploding smartphone battery shortly after he decided to bite it to test its authenticity.

Rescue efforts have been suspended in the East China Sea after a stricken Iranian oil tanker exploded following days of fires onboard the vessel.

Surveillance footage captured the moment a small pipe bomb exploded in a New York City subway passageway near the Port Authority Bus Terminal Monday morning.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Catalan police say they are carrying out controlled explosions in the town where an extremist cell plotted the attacks in Barcelona and a seaside resort.

A police officer has been injured after an explosion and fire tore through a house in Finsbury Park, North London, following an ‘altercation’.

A national bomb protection unit has been flown from Stockholm to northern Sweden after a young man attempted to throw a suspected homemade pipe bomb from a car.

A specialist bomb squad has been scrambled to the Swedish city of Gothenburg after an explosion, just 24 hours after a suspected car bomb rocked Stockholm.

A suspected car bomb has exploded in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.

A rare e-cigarette malfunction sent a Fresno man to the hospital on Wednesday when the device he had placed in his pocket appeared to explode in flames on a bus.

(Reuters) – An explosion rocked central Budapest late on Saturday, injuring two police officers, Hungarian police said on Sunday.

An apparent explosion in a crowded Chelsea neighborhood of New York City on Saturday night left 25 people with minor injuries, authorities said.

Police spokesman J. Peter Donald said on Twitter that the explosion happened at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday on West 23rd Street, which is a major thoroughfare with many restaurants.

A massive explosion struck a night market in Davao City, hometown of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, on Friday night (local time). At least 15 people have been reportedly killed, with more than 60 others wounded.

BRUSSELS, Aug 29 (Reuters) – Arsonists set fire to Belgium’s National Institute of Criminology in Brussels on Monday, causing an explosion but no casualties, a Brussels prosecutor said.

The Daily News is reporting that a packed bar full of birthday party revellers caught fire due to an explosion killing at least 13 people.

A powerful explosion, allegedly from a suicide bomber, shook a central neighborhood of Istanbul Tuesday morning, killing at least 11 and wounding another 15, including some tourists. The bomb went off around 10:20am local time in the Sultanahmet district, an area

An explosion on the tarmac at Turkey’s Sabiha Gökçen International Airport in Istanbul killed one person and wounded another.

Five people were lightly injured when a homemade explosive detonated at a bus stop in central Moscow, authorities said Tuesday. The device went off Monday night on Pokrovka Street, a trendy area in central Moscow dotted with bars and restaurants.

Video and photographs of a massive explosion in Tianjin, China, have begun surfacing on Twitter, Sina Weibo, and other social media sites as authorities scramble to find the cause of the explosion and those caught in proximity to the fire, whose cause appears still unknown.

An explosion on Turkey’s border with Syria, allegedly executed by ISIS, killed at least 31 people on Monday. “We are concerned that the number of death will increase. The perpetrators will soon be found and put on trial,” Turkey’s interior minister said in a statement.

Two people have been killed in an apparent explosion at an industrial estate in Hellesdon, Norfolk. Sky News reports emergency services were called to the scene after the blast at 9.20 this morning. Smoke was seen rising from the site,

A flammable substance, possibly meant for use in a stage performance, exploded in midair at the Formosa Fun Coast water park in Taiwan on Saturday night, creating an immense fireball that injured at least 510 people, 183 of them badly enough to require intensive care at hospitals, according to CNN.

A building in New York City’s East Village collapsed on Thursday afternoon, with the New York Post reporting that up to 30 people have been injured. Witnesses flooded social media with pictures and descriptions of the building.

A Ramona, California man smoking an e-cigarette found himself headed to the hospital after the device exploded, cutting his face and shattering a nearby display case at the Stage Stop liquor store Saturday.

MCALLEN, Texas — A massive gas explosion and fire south of the Texas border forced Tamaulipas authorities to scramble firefighters and emergency personnel. Unlike previous explosions, no injuries have been reported. The explosion took place Wednesday afternoon near the rural