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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. 

  • London anarchist bookshop hit by suspicious fire

    One of Britain's oldest anarchist publishers says its east London bookshop has been firebombed. Freedom Press — set up more than 100 years ago — said ... 

  • Suicide bomber kills guard at US Embassy in Turkey

    In the second deadly assault on a U.S. diplomatic post in five months, a suicide bomber struck the American Embassy in Ankara on Friday, killing a ... 

  • 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 ... 

  • MEXICO EXPLOSION

    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 16

    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 ... 

  • Iowa brokerage head gets 50 years for $215M theft

    For years, Russ Wasendorf Sr. enjoyed the perks of being a successful businessman: a corporate jet, a fancy swimming pool at his mansion, an extensive ... 

  • Decimated Ga. plant a symbol of storm's power

    For Darleen Evans, it was sheer terror as the manufacturing plant where she worked collapsed around her and her colleagues. She and two other women ... 

  • Brazil nightclub fire prompts regional reaction

    Brazilian authorities inspected and shuttered night spots around the country on Thursday as part of a crackdown on unsafe public spaces after a deadly ... 

  • COLUMBIA

    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 ... 

  • Lucas Gruenther

    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. 

  • Mozambique floods: Death toll rises to 55

    The United Nations says the death toll from the flooding in Mozambique has risen by seven to at least 55 people. The U.N. said Thursday that heavy ... 

  • 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 ... 

  • Assaf Ramon, Rona Ramon

    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 ... 

  • Severe Weather

    Powerful storms flip cars, decimate homes; 2 dead

    A massive storm system raked the Southeast on Wednesday, generating tornadoes and dangerous winds that flipped cars on a major Georgia interstate, ... 

  • 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 ... 

  • 3 hurt in hotel explosion near SeaWorld San Diego

    A powerful explosion on Wednesday ripped through a hotel near SeaWorld San Diego from a room where authorities say a couple was extracting hash oil, ... 

  • Magnitude-6.8 earthquake shakes northern Chile

    A magnitude-6.8 earthquake shook offices, toppled supermarket shelves and broke windows on Wednesday in north-central Chile, where people fled some ... 

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