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Mexico's state-owned oil company says 14 have died and 80 are injured in an office building explosion at its headquarters in the capital.

The American mother accused of murdering her three young children appeared in court and was remanded in custody ahead of a trial date, local media reported Saturday.

California-born Theresa Riggi sobbed uncontrollably Friday and had to be helped into the building by two female security officers as she made her first appearance in court, where she learned she will face a triple murder trial, according to The (Glasgow) Herald.

An explosion and fire at a Washington state oil refinery shook homes and shot flames into the night sky early Friday, killing three people and critically injuring four others....

The president of ConocoPhillips Alaska was killed in an avalanche and another person in his snowmobiling party is missing, according to Alaska State Troopers.

Rescuers combed a crash site in Kenya on Sunday where oil spilled from a truck caught fire and killed around 100 people in one of the east African nation's worst disasters of recent times.