April 3, 2018 (2018-04-03) (Tuesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
Arts and culture
Business and economy
- Following the bankruptcy of UK engineering outsourcing firm Carillion, the Official Receiver reveals more than half of the roughly 20,000 employees have found new jobs. (Sky News)
- UK retailer Conviviality, owner of Bargain Booze, says it intends to appoint administrators within ten days. (Citywire)
Disasters and accidents
- A bus crashes in rain and poor visibility at the Mporokoso-Luwingu junction in Zambia, killing four and injuring 41. (Zambia Daily Mail)
- A double-decker sightseeing bus collides with a car in Hamburg, Germany, leaving eleven injured. (The Local)
- The Prisons and Probation Ombudsman launches an investigation after a burglar dies from burns suffered in a fire in his cell at HMP Risley in England. (Manchester Evening News)
- A report into the partial collapse of an Edinburgh school reveals similar construction errors in nineteen other public buildings in the city. (Construction Enquirer)
- An air traffic control system failure in Europe delays up to 15,000 flights, according to the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation. (BBC)
- Four people, all British nationals, are killed in a head-on collision with a pick-up truck in the U.S. state of Florida, according to Titusville Police Department. (BBC)
- Two underground trains collide in Duisburg, Germany, injuring at least 35. (Euronews)
- At a United Nations donor conference nations pledge US$2 billion in aid for Yemen, with almost half coming from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. (The Guardian)
- A CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter carrying US Marines crashes near El Centro, California killing four people. (Military Times)
- A bus carrying US tourists crashes near Los Ramones, Mexico. One person dies and at least 20 are injured. (WFAA)
- A 13-year-old boy is rescued after falling into a sewer and becoming trapped for 12 hours in Los Angeles. (Isle of Wight Radio)
- A military pilot is killed when his F-7 fighter jet crashes into a paddy field in Kyunkone, central Myanmar. (The Straits Times)
- A fire in a Bangkok apartment building kills three and injures 60. (The Bangkok Post)
Health and environment
- The WWF describes Germany's rivers as being in a state "bordering on critical" after it emerges more than 90% do not meet European Union standards for cleanliness and ecological quality. (The Local)
International relations
Law and crime
Politics and elections