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At least eight people have been killed in a fire bomb attack on a bar in the Mexican tourist town of Cancun. Local reports said the attack was carried out by a drug cartel which was trying to extort protection money from the bar owner. It has heightened fears that drug-related violence is spreading to tourist towns. Al Jazeera's Franc Contreras reports from Cancun.

A bus going through Ecuador's highlands towards the capital Quito went off the cliff before dawn Sunday, killing 42 passengers and injuring 12.

The crash happened in the central province of Cotopaxi where rescue workers are struggling to extract bodies and look for survivors on the steep cliffs around area of La Delicia, about 55 miles (95 kilometers) south of Quito.

A Russian vessel with 14 crewmembers on board has sunk around the country's Arctic region after sending a distress call, officials say.

Rescuers discovered a life raft from Russia's Alexei Kulakovsky tugboat, which sank on early Friday morning in the Laptev Sea some 20 nautical miles (more than 30 km) from the shore, RIA Novosti reported.

Greece's Defense Ministry has announced that two Greek fighter jets have collided in mid-air in the south of the island of Crete.

The ministry said the two F-16 planes, with a total of three crew members on board, were part of a four-plane team that were on a training mission out of Souda airforce bay in the island's northwest on Thursday.

A US government study says nearly 17 million Americans have driven a vehicle while drunk at least once within a year.

According to a 2008 survey conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), an estimated eight percent of all drivers, or 17.2 million people had driven a vehicle at least once even though they knew they were drunk.

At least 19 people have been killed after a passenger plane operated by a private company crash landed at an airport in western Democratic Republic of Congo.

The plane en route from Kinshasa crashed on Wednesday just before 1200 GMT in Bandundu city.

Authorities have recovered the flight data recorder of a Chinese passenger plane that crashed after overshooting its runway in the northeast of the country, state media has said.

The plane's black box was recovered at the crash site on Wednesday morning, the official Xinhua news agency said.

At least 42 people have died when a Chinese passenger plane with 96 people onboard crashed in Heilongjiang province in the country's northeast.

Atleast 49 people were rushed to the hospital, of whom three were seriously wounded, the official Xinhua news agency said.

All fourteen people on board of a small passenger aircraft have been killed after it crashed in bad weather in Nepal.

Six foreign tourists were onboard, including four US nationals, a Briton and a Japanese tourist, officials said on Tuesday.

A small passenger aircraft, carrying at least 13 people, has crashed in bad weather in Nepal.

The aircraft was travelling in heavy rain on Tuesday about 50km outside Kathmandu, the capital, when it crashed into the hills near Shikharpur village, according to Bahadur Shrestha, a police chief.