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33 die in Mexico oil company office building blast
A blast that collapsed the lower floors of a building in the headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company, crushing at least 33 people beneath ...
Indian film star faces homicide charge
An attorney says Indian movie star Salman Khan will be tried for homicide for his alleged involvement in a fatal road accident more than 10 years ago.
NASA marks 10 years since loss of Columbia, crew
Schoolchildren joined NASA managers and relatives of the lost crew of space shuttle Columbia on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy and ...
If space shuttle is doomed, do you tell the crew?
A NASA top official wrestled with what he thought was a hypothetical question: What should you tell the astronauts of a doomed space shuttle Columbia? ...
4 detained after deadly highway collapse in China
Chinese authorities have detained four people, state media said Saturday, a day after at least 11 people died when a truck loaded with fireworks for ...
2 children, 1 adult die in Detroit freeway pileup
It took only seconds for the light snow to turn into a blinding curtain of white. Drivers slammed on their brakes, others swerved to avoid ...
Coast Guard blames officer for deadly boat crash
The failure of a Coast Guard boat operator to drive his craft safely led to a 2009 collision with a pleasure boat that killed an 8-year-old boy and ...
25 dead, 101 hurt in Mexico oil company blast
An explosion at the office headquarters of Mexico's state-owned oil company killed 25 people and injured 101 on Thursday as it heavily damaged three ...
2 children, 1 adult die in Detroit freeway pileups
Blinding snow squalls, high winds and a slick highway led to a mile-long series of crashes in Detroit that left at least three people dead Thursday, ...
Winter X Games snowmobiler dies after Colo. crash
Caleb Moore was a Texas kid drawn to the snow, rehearsing complicated tricks on a snowmobile into a foam pit back home until they became second nature ...
Space shuttle Columbia: What happened 10 years ago
Ten years ago Friday, the space shuttle Columbia was destroyed and its seven astronauts killed during the final minutes of its flight. NASA will mark ...
Correction: Nigeria-Plane Graveyard story
In a story Feb. 2 about Nigeria dismantling abandoned airplanes at airports around the country, The Associated Press reported erroneously what ...
Body of US pilot of missing F-16 found in Adriatic
The body of a U.S. Air Force pilot whose F-16 fighter jet went missing Monday during a nighttime training mission has been found in the Adriatic Sea.
Roadside bomb kills 2 polio workers in NW Pakistan
A roadside bomb killed two Pakistani polio workers on their way to vaccinate children in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border on ...
Israeli astronaut's widow carries on after tragedy
It's a day Israelis will never forget: Feb. 1, 2003, when national pride abruptly turned to national tragedy. People gathered around their TV screens ...
Guard lets vessels pass leaking Miss. River barge
The Coast Guard is letting vessels pass through a closed section of the Mississippi River at Vicksburg as it evaluates how traffic would affect ...
Ten years since loss of space shuttle Columbia
He was just 8 when NASA lost the space shuttle Columbia and he lost his astronaut mom. Now, 10 years later, Iain Clark is a young man on the cusp of ...
Operator, contractor cited in NYC crane collapse
A crane operator and a contractor didn't inspect equipment, failed to take proper precautions and ran the rig unsafely before it collapsed while ...
Toyota recalls 1.29M vehicles for air bags, wipers
Toyota is recalling over one million cars around the world for faulty air bags and defective windshield wipers. The move comes just days after Toyota ...
Dutch court rejects most of Shell spill case
A Dutch court has ruled that a subsidiary of international oil giant Royal Dutch Shell should be held responsible for a pipeline leak poisoning ...
Next in BP spill saga: civil trial worth billions
Now that a $4 billion plea deal has resolved BP's criminal liability for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill nearly three years ago, the company will ...
Snowmobiler in critical condition after Winter X
Snowmobiler Caleb Moore was in critical condition Tuesday in a Colorado hospital after a dramatic crash at the Winter X Games in Aspen, and a relative ...
Judge OKs $4B BP oil spill criminal settlement
BP PLC closed the book on the Justice Department's criminal probe of its role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Gulf oil spill Tuesday, when a ...
NJ man in Hudson plane crash called wife, then 911
A man who was plucked from a plane crash in the icy Hudson River said Tuesday that he wasn't sure he'd survive, and he'd contacted 911 only after ...
Humble nickel from 1913 likely to fetch millions
A humble 5-cent coin with a storied past is headed to auction and bidding is expected to top $2 million a century after it was mysteriously minted.