An explosion and fire on a ship at a dockyard near Athens has killed eight people and injured four. The ship was undergoing repairs at the time."Rescue crews were trying to remove the final three bodies from the Panamanian-flagged Friendship Gas tanker ship at the Perama...
An elderly man watching a construction site from his car was killed when a crane fell putting a steeple on an Oklahoma City church earlier today."Ambulance officials say a 78-year-old woman who was also in the car was transported to a hospital in good condition.The accident...
UPDATE: 9:42PM ESTSeven people were injured in the collapse, but it is still not known what caused it." The owner of the crane, Deep South Crane & Rigging, says it's already investigating. It's hoped that...
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Battle against the Malaria have been finally won. Scientists in Australia have discovered a treatment to combat deadly Malaria. This discovery will help millions of people in developing and poor...
A Russian women has folded her husband to death in a folding couch."St Petersburg's Channel Five said the man's wife, upset with her husband for being drunk and refusing to get up, kicked a handle after an argument, activating a mechanism that folds the couch up against a...
Seven explosive devices went off in under an hour, three of those going off less than 10 minutes apart in Karachi, Pakistan this morning. Reports coming in from television in the area are still sketchy, but it seems...
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There is no sign of any let up in the violence in Iraq. After the male suicide bomber now female bomber are new threat."A female suicide bomber has killed nine people and wounded 12 others in an attack on an Iraqi market, police said. The attack took place in the al-Mafraq...
The Wujiu Coal Mine has collapsed in northern China, just days after the last disaster."State media says that seven miners managed to escape from the Wujiu mine and a further four were rescued. An early investigation into the accident, which happened on Saturday, suggested...
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On the morning of July 1st, a mine shaft collapsed in the Shaanxi province of China, leaving eighteen miners dead. The accident, the cause of which is yet to be determined, happened while twenty eight workers were underground working in the state-owned coal mine. Twelve men...
"In what can only be described as a day of carnage for the Australasian racing industry, three horses lost their lives in two races on either side of the Tasman on Saturday. The deaths have prompted horse welfare activists to renew their calls for an end to jump racing....
In the continuing fight, in the Sri Lanka's embattled nothern areas, between Tamil tigers and government forces more than 32 Tamils and 4 government soldiers were killed today. The killing took place in the deep...
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In a major offensive Nato forces have killed more than 22 Taleban militants in an airstrike. They were fighting on the ground and falling back on Iraq style guerrilla tactics including road side bombings. " Coalition airstrikes killed 22 militants who were attacking two...
An Iraqi city councillor from Baghdad opened fire on American soldiers and local officials during a park ceremony on Monday, killing two US soldiers and wounding three others. The councillor allegedly exited his car with an AK-47 and opened fire, killing the soldiers before...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorLife has to be pretty dismal for someone to take their own life and that of the lives around them. Female Suicide Bombers are the ultimate weapon besides children who...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorAs the world turns, and we go about our daily lives, so does the ongoing series of suicide bombings in Iraq.Iraqi Civilians aware of their limited time on this earth, met...