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Belgian authorities are waiting to question a train driver who survived a collision near Brussels on Monday that left at least 18 people dead.

At least 20 people were killed when two rush-hour passenger trains collided head on in Belgium today, local television reports said.

Two members of the U.S. Olympic delegation -- both gold medalists from previous Olympics -- suffered minor injuries Sunday in an accident as they were traveling in Vice President Joe Biden's motorcade, the White House said.

At least 17 Indian soldiers have been killed after an avalanche hit a military training camp in Indian-administered Kashmir, the army says.

Search teams retrieved on Sunday flight recorders belonging to an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed off the coast of Lebanon last month killing all 90 people aboard.

EVOLENE, Switzerland -- A skier was buried beneath an avalanche for 17 hours in the Swiss Alps before being pulled from the snow with only mild hypothermia, police said Sunday.

The "black box" flight recorders from a passenger jet which crashed off the coast of Lebanon two days ago have been found, officials say.

KOLKATA — Seven Hindu pilgrims were killed Thursday in a stampede at a religious festival on the river Ganges in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, a senior police official said.

A man who went to casualty with his penis stuck in a steel pipe had to be cut free by firefighters using a metal grinder.

BERLIN — A jet headed for Spain's Canary Islands came off the runway at Dortmund airport in western Germany on Sunday, but no one was injured, authorities said.