POLICE yesterday questioned three workers suspected of accidentally starting a fire that killed 20 people in a third-floor karaoke bar in one of Indonesia's largest cities. Two survivors of the Friday night fire...
PANICKED club patrons crushed each other to death in a popular Russian nightspot as they tried to flee a fast-moving fire that one eyewitness said was started by pyrotechnic fountains set up on the stage. Officials...
POLICE yesterday questioned three workers suspected of accidentally starting a fire that killed 20 people in a third-floor karaoke bar in one of Indonesia's largest cities. Two survivors of the Friday night fire...
PANICKED club patrons crushed each other to death in a popular Russian nightspot as they tried to flee a fast-moving fire that one eyewitness said was started by pyrotechnic fountains set up on the stage. Officials...
THAILAND'S aging monarch addressed the nation yesterday for the first time since being hospitalized more than two months ago, marking his 82nd birthday with a call for "calm" in the politically turbulent country....
THE Philippine president imposed martial law yesterday on a southern province and security forces detained the patriarch of a powerful clan and three of his sons, accusing them of massacring 57 people and fomenting...
AS if Italy's prime minister did not have enough worries already, he now risks a public needling after the launch of voodoo Silvio Berlusconi dolls covered with choice quotes from the gaffe-prone Italian prime minister....
THAILAND'S aging monarch addressed the nation yesterday for the first time since being hospitalized more than two months ago, marking his 82nd birthday with a call for "calm" in the politically turbulent country....
THE Philippine president imposed martial law yesterday on a southern province and security forces detained the patriarch of a powerful clan and three of his sons, accusing them of massacring 57 people and fomenting...
AS if Italy's prime minister did not have enough worries already, he now risks a public needling after the launch of voodoo Silvio Berlusconi dolls covered with choice quotes from the gaffe-prone Italian prime minister....
A LETTER by George Washington has sold for US$3.2 million at auction in New York City, setting a world record for a letter by America's first president, according to Christie's. Washington's 1787 letter to nephew...
REGULATORS on Friday shut down Ohio's AmTrust Bank, the fourth largest American bank to fail this year. They also closed five others, bringing to 130 the number of US banks to be brought down so far in 2009 by...
AMERICAN college student Amanda Knox was found guilty of murdering her British roommate and sentenced to 26 years in prison early yesterday after a yearlong trial that gripped Italy and drew intense media attention. ...
THE New York City annex to Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will shut on January 3, just a year after opening. S2BN Entertainment, a corporate partner in the venture, announced the closure in a statement...
REGULATORS on Friday shut down Ohio's AmTrust Bank, the fourth largest American bank to fail this year. They also closed five others, bringing to 130 the number of US banks to be brought down so far in 2009 by...
AMERICAN college student Amanda Knox was found guilty of murdering her British roommate and sentenced to 26 years in prison early yesterday after a yearlong trial that gripped Italy and drew intense media attention. ...
THE New York City annex to Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will shut on January 3, just a year after opening. S2BN Entertainment, a corporate partner in the venture, announced the closure in a statement...
A BLAZE sparked by an indoor firework show ripped through a crowded Russian nightclub, killing at least 102 and injuring 134 as revelers stampeded for the exits, the Emergencies Ministry said. The firework show...
AT least 101 people were killed and 140 injured yesterday when hundreds of people stampeded out of a packed Russian nightclub after fireworks sparked a blaze, the Emergencies Ministry said. Clubbers rushed for...
PHILIPPINE authorities imposed martial law today in the southern province of Maguindanao to prevent further violence after last month's massacre of 57 people in the country's worst election-related crime. The...
AN Italian court convicted American student Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito early today of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in a drunken sex game. After an 11-month trial...
AT least 94 people were killed and 139 others injured in a nightclub blast that hit Russia's Urals city of Perm late yesterday, local media reported, citing Russian Emergency Situations Ministry. Some firecrackers...
UNITED States authorities scooped up poisoned fish floating to the surface of a Chicago-area waterway on Thursday in an operation designed to keep invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes and prevent an ecological...
"UP in the Air" was named best picture from the US National Board of Review and won a total of four awards. Directed by Jason Reitman ("Juno," "Thank You for Smoking"), the film stars George Clooney as a contractor...
A VERY large, 30-year study of just about everyone in Scandinavia shows no link between cellphone use and brain tumors, according to Danish researchers. Even though mobile telephone use soared in the 1990s and...
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