Whoever controls the Strait of Hormuz, off the coast of Iran, controls nothing less than the sole maritime gateway for most of the Persian Gulf’s oil riches to the world.

Video from Algeria showing red flares and fireworks being set off from ​rooftops has been falsely described online as footage ‌of a retaliatory Iranian missile attack on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.

The Bozeman Fire Department is observing the 17th anniversary of a natural gas explosion that impacted their community.

Oil prices pushed sharply higher Wednesday after the U.S. said the use of military force against Iran remained an option following a lack of a breakthrough in talks over Tehran’s disputed nuclear ...

BEIJING (AP) — An explosion at a fireworks' shop in China's Hubei province on Wednesday killed 12 people, state media reported, the second such explosion as the country celebrates the Lunar New Year.

The incident took place on the afternoon of Sunday, Feb. 15 in Jiangsu province Getty Authorities have confirmed that 8 people have been killed and a further two injured after an explosion at a ...

Beijing — An explosion and fire at a fireworks shop in eastern China has killed eight people and left two others with minor burns ahead of the Chinese New Year, authorities said. The Sunday afternoon ...

Eni (E)-BP (BP) joint venture, Azule Energy, and its partners, SSI Fifteen Limited and Sonangol E&P, have discovered an offshore oil well that could hold nearly 500M barrels of crude off the coast of ...

A 15-year-old boy suffered severe injuries in Oceanside Thursday, including the loss of one of his hands, when a firecracker detonated while he was holding it. The accident occurred about 9 a.m. in ...

Crude oil stocks, not including the SPR, stood at 420.3 million barrels on January 30, according to the EIA's latest weekly petroleum status report. U.S. commercial crude oil inventories, excluding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Authorities announced Wednesday that one person was found dead following a possible fireworks explosion that also left two people ...

A person was found dead inside a Los Angeles apartment building after an explosion that investigators suspect was sparked by fireworks or “homemade explosives,” police said. The blast ripped through ...