A fire in an apartment building in northern Paris kills eight people, including two children.

Authorities temporarily shut down the 60MW thermal power station at Shikalbaha in Chittagong following a fire incident.

Five people including two minor boys of a family are burnt in a fire that broke out a house at South Keraniganj on the outskirts of Dhaka.

A fire breaks out on the first floor of a five-storey building located at Kobiraj lane of Shakkhari Bazar area in Dhaka.

Fires are still burning at the site of two massive explosions in the Chinese city of Tianjin, some 36 hours after the blasts.

Three members of a family were burnt in a fire at a house in Jurain area of Dhaka early today.

Fire guts six tin-roofed shops and a bakery in Pashchim Madarbari area of Chittagong city early today.

At least 25 people have died in a fire at a furniture factory north of the Egyptian capital Cairo, officials say.

Hundreds of low-income families are now living under the sky, after a devastating fire destroyed their homes and all other belongings.

It has been raining in Dhaka since Saturday. Sometimes rains came down heavier after slight relapses. But had it come a little earlier today, many of a Merul Badda slum might not lost their belongings in a devastating fire.

Around a hundred shanties are gutted in a huge fire which breaks out at a slum in Merul Badda in Dhaka, fire fighters say.

A fire broke out at Karnaphuli Garden City Market in Kakrail of Dhaka.

A fire breaks out at Anu-Majhirghat slum in Sadarghat area of Chittagong city.

Around 50 houses of a slum have been gutted and five people injured as a devastating fire broke out at a slum in Fatullah in Narayanganj.

More than 500 people have been injured in a fire and explosion at an amusement park outside Taiwan's capital Taipei.

Seven persons, including a woman, die and 28 others are injured in a major blaze on the 14th floor of a 21-storey upscale Powai highrise in Mumbai.

Over eight hours after a fire broke out at a ready-made garment factory in Gazipur, 14 firefighting units are still continuing their hectic efforts in bringing the blaze under control.

The fire that broke out at a nine-storey building on the Elephant Road in Dhaka was doused this evening.

A fire at a nursing home in China's Henan province kills 38 people, state media report.Another six people are injured in the fire, which broke out at the privately run Kangleyuan home in Pingdingshan.

A fire breaks out at a warehouse of a furniture market in the Dhaka's Panthapath.