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Nearly 70 dead‚ hundreds injured in Texas fertilizer plant explosion: Report

CHICAGO:Some 60 to 70 people were killed and hundreds were injured by an explosion at a fertilizer plant outside Waco, Texas, local media reported, citing

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Hundreds of injuries likely from Texas fertilizer plant blast: official

Hundreds of people were likely injured on Wednesday in an explosion at a fertilizer plant, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety told Reuters. The spokesman, D.L. Wilson, added that a

Chinese marathon bomb victim remembered as bright

BOSTON: Less than 24 hours before she died, Lu Lingzi sent an exuberant email to a professor after learning she had passed part of a major final exam. “I am

Letter addressed to Obama contained Ricin; Senate office buildings evacuated

A letter addressed to President Barack Obama was found to contain Ricin Wednesday, the FBI announced, the same day Senate office buildings were partially evacuated following the discovery of “suspicious

Airport employee pens resignation letter on a cake

Airport worker Chris Holmes made a bold decision to pursue his dreams—and he wrote all about it, in frosting, in a resignation letter on top of a cake. Holmes’ brother-in-law

Britain’s Iron Lady to be buried with full pomp

LONDON: The Iron Lady is being laid to rest — yet even in death, she remains a divisive figure. World leaders and dignitaries from 170 countries were to attend the

Pakistan bears brunt of Iranian earthquake, 35 killed

Pakistan: A powerful earthquake struck a border area of southeast Iran on Tuesday killing at least 35 people in neighboring Pakistan, destroying hundreds of houses and shaking buildings as far

Venezuela accuses opposition of plotting coup, seven dead

CARACAS: Venezuelan President-elect Nicolas Maduro accused the opposition on Tuesday of planning a coup against him after seven government supporters were killed in clashes over his disputed election victory. Opposition

First Manned Mars Mission Draws Flood of Applicants

COLORADO SPRINGS: They’ll be crammed into a space the size of an RV for more than a year, breathing recycled air, subsisting on dehydrated food and drinking their purified urine.

Iran struck by magnitude 7.8 earthquake

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake has struck south-east Iran, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reports. The epicentre of the huge quake was 86km (53 miles) from the city of Khash in