Argentina's Court of Justice on Wednesday convicted and sentenced a club owner to 20 years in prison for a deadly club fire that killed 194 people but absolved the band that had played that night of responsibility for the tragedy. The incident happened in December 2004, when a fire broke out in the overcrowded Republica Cromanon venue in Buenos Aires. Many of the exits to the building were illegally closed. Omar Chaban, the owner of Cromanon, was convicted of causing ...

Six people were killed, including three children, when a fire broke out in a high-rise apartment building in south London on Friday afternoon, officials said. The fire started on the fourth floor at 4:30 p.m. then rapidly spread to the 11th floor, eventually engulfing 12 floors and gutting apartments along the way, fire officials said. A 3-week-old, a 7-year-old and an unidentified woman were pronounced dead at a hospital, London Metropolitan Police said. Personnel declared three others dead at the ...

Thousands of shoppers rushed out of a crowded high-rise shopping complex in Bangladesh's capital city on Friday when a fire broke out in the building's top floors, a police official said. At least one person died, and 20 others are being treated at a nearby hospital for injuries sustained in the fire and the rush to leave the building, a Shamarita hospital official said. Rescue teams are searching for shoppers who may be trapped inside the nearly 20-story-high Bashundhara ...