A suicide bomber killed 10 people and injured more than a dozen others in a popular tourist area . Hide Caption 1 of 8 Photos : Deadly explosion in Istanbul A man takes a photograph near the site of the explosion in Istanbul 's historic Sultanahmet district . Hide Caption 2 of 8 Photos : Deadly explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion in Istanbul Turkish police cordon off a street in Istanbul . Hide Caption 3 of 8 Photos : Deadly explosion in Istanbul A man looks at the Blue Mosque near the site of the blast in Istanbul . Hide Caption 4 of 8 Photos : Deadly explosion in Istanbul Police investigate the scene .

The state - run Anadolu Agency says a bomb has hit the Turkish parliament in Ankara . CNN - Turk television reported some police officers and parliament workers were hurt in the bomb attack . A resident living not far from the area told the AP he heard a massive explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion that shook buildings and saw a column of smoke but could not confirm if it was coming from parliament itself . The person , who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons , also said fighter jets were flying low in the area . _ _ _

But the decision has upset environmental groups , who said the new blocks were too close to ice floes . “ We can not risk another Deepwater Horizon in the Barents Sea , ” an area with a rich but fragile ecosystem , said Truls Gulowsen , the head of the Norwegian branch of Greenpeace . The US government estimated that 4.9 m gallons of oil spilled from the seabed after the BP - leased Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico suffered an explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion on 20 April 2010 that killed 11 people . The spill is widely viewed as one of the worst environmental disasters in history . Gulowsen noted that at the COP21 climate change conference in Paris in December , “ leaders from the whole world committed to maintaining the rise in temperatures to under 1.5 degrees .

WASHINGTON , April 20 ( Yonhap ) -- North Korea 's failed launch of its Musudan intermediate - range ballistic missile last week sparked a huge fireball that damaged the launcher and could have also injured or killed missile technicians on the ground , a news report said Wednesday . The missile blew up about 300 feet above the ground , shortly after Friday 's launch , and U.S. strategic defense surveillance systems , both airborne and space - based , videotaped the explosion , the Washington Free Beacon reported , citing U.S. defense officials . Two road - mobile Musudan launchers were set up for the test , but the second was not fired after the explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion , the report said . It also cited a diplomatic source as saying that the likely cause of the explosion was a faulty fuel system or turbo pump failure . The Musudan intermediate - range ballistic missile is an indigenous variant of the Russian SS - N-6 submarine - launched ballistic missile , known by Moscow as the R-27 , which the North obtained covertly from Russia sometime in the 1990s , the report said .

But shock waves rippled through the region earlier this month as Armenia became embroiled in deadly fighting with its neighbor Azerbaijan over the disputed enclave of Nagorno - Karabakh . Photo : Howard Amos The explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion took place near the center of Yerevan , less than half a mile from the site of a memorial to the Armenian genocide and a conference hall complex where Hollywood A - lister George Clooney awarded a new humanitarian prize just 24 hours earlier . A bomb was placed under one of the seats and the blast was caught on CCTV cameras , Armenian media reported the country ’s chief of police as saying several hours after the incident . All 10 people on the bus at the moment of the blast were reportedly either injured or killed .

“ The airstrikes intensified on 1 February . The next day at 8.30am the centre was targeted by a missile . I was on my way to work when I saw and heard the explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion . When I arrived I saw the driver ’s body at the entrance , two patients and five from the medical team severely injured . We had to transfer them outside of Anadan .

Reporter for Ukrainian Pravda and critic of leaders in Ukraine , Belarus and Russia was driving to work when car exploded A car bomb in Kiev has killed Pavel Sheremet , a pioneering journalist and outspoken critic of leaders in Belarus , Russia and Ukraine . Security camera footage showed the car had entered an intersection when an explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion ripped through it from underneath . Passersby ran to pull Sheremet out of the vehicle , which later caught on fire . Sheremet had been on his way to host his morning radio show .

Despite North Korea 's claims , experts are sceptical that North Korea can make a nuclear weapon small enough to fit on a missile . What do we know about the latest test ? Observers agree a nuclear explosion of some kind took place and it seems to have been a bit bigger than the last test in 2013 , but not nearly big enough to be a full thermonuclear explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion - an " H - bomb " - as Pyongyang claims . Why ca n't the world stop North Korea ? North Korea has a determination to defy both world opinion and heavy sanctions to reach its nuclear goal .

Indian officials say a meteorite struck the campus of a private engineering college on Saturday , killing one person . If scientists confirm the explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion was due to a meteorite , it would be the first recorded human fatality due to a falling space rock . According to local reports , a bus driver was killed on Saturday when a meteorite landed in the area where he was walking , damaging the window panes of nearby buses and buildings . Three other people were injured .

That relationship , where Russia was delivering astronauts to the space station , has really been now cast aside . So SpaceX is going to be the predominant delivery service . This launch failure , with this explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion of the rocket , is really going to put a real crimp in NASA ’s launch program . ”

The operation of nuclear power plants is virtually carbon - neutral , although the processes of mining and enriching uranium fuel , operating backup generators and disposing of waste all produce emissions . Still , nuclear presents far less of a threat to the climate than oil and fracked gas , and advocates say that the opposition is more ideological than evidence - based . Potential safety threats are another matter : The Chernobyl explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion and meltdown , which took place 30 years ago , as well as the 2011 disaster at Fukushima cast a long shadow over the nuclear - energy debate . Uranium mining can also be hazardous to workers and the environment . And then there ’s the problem of where to store spent fuel rods .

Horrible , despicable crime . Ukr police shld look into all motives — tanya cooper ( @TanyaCooper _ ) 20 July 2016 ​Alyona Pritula , the founder and chief editor of Ukrainskaya Pravda media outlet , was not inside the car at the moment of the explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion . The explosion took place at about 7:45 am , after the journalist got into the car , started the engine and drove about several dozen meters . The vehicle has burnt out completely .

It is the most lethal suicide bombing ever staged by the ISIS Libyan affiliate . On the same day , ISIS claims a second attack that kills six people at a checkpoint in Ras Lanouf . Photos : Deadly explosion in Istanbul Photos : Deadly explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion in Istanbul Police investigate the scene of an explosion in central Istanbul on Tuesday , January 12 . A suicide bomber killed 10 people and injured more than a dozen others in a popular tourist area . Hide Caption 1 of 8 Photos : Deadly explosion in Istanbul A man takes a photograph near the site of the explosion in Istanbul 's historic Sultanahmet district .

Explosives found in an illegal Muslim prayer hall near the Russian city of Samara was eliminated right inside the building . Bomb disposal team deemed it too dangerous to take the explosives out . The video of the controlled explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion shows a considerable part of the building being destroyed in the blast . A police dog helped to find a cache with more than a kilogram of explosives of unknown origin . A bomb - disposal expert said extracting the explosives would be definitely unsafe and bomb technicians rolled in a water cannon , a source within Russia ’s Federal Security Service ( FSB ) told RT .

They have much more power , ” Polyakov told the Guardian . He also explained how attackers can also target a safety feature called a Burner Management System ( BMS ) used to safely startup and shut down furnaces used at various stages of gas - oil separation . This system is “ easy to manipulate ” to create a malfunction that could lead to an explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion , Polyakov said . Oil companies should be “ very worried ” about these potential exploits , he said . Some 43 % of global mining , oil and gas companies were hacked in 2014 , according a study by cybersecurity firm Symantec .

We know that there can occur a series of gas emissions over an extended period of time , but we do not know exactly when they might happen , " he said . One of the most popular theories is that the craters formed as a result of global warming . As the permafrost melted from higher global temperatures , methane gas was released , leading to an explosion disaster.fireexplosion.fireexplosion and the appearance of craters . The ground on Bely Island – farther north than the craters - could be the process of methane leaking into the ground caught in action , scientists say .