A deck collapsed at a North Carolina beach house as a family got set to take a group photo, leaving at least 14 people injured with two of those in critical condition, authorities said.
A spokeswoman at a nearby hospital later said 20 people, (...)
Verte, Rabi'I 23, 1435, Jan 24, 2014, SPA -- Investigators were trying to pick through the icy rubble of a charred seniors' facility in Quebec Friday to try to identify more victims of a fire that killed at least five and left about 30 missing. The (...)
VERTE, Quebec, Rabi'I 24, 1435, Jan 25, 2014, SPA -- The painstaking search through the iced-over remains of a burned-out Quebec retirement home resumes Saturday morning, with friends and relatives of some 30 missing people awaiting word. Eight (...)
The euro zone's repeated failure to tackle its debt crisis is catapulting the bloc toward recession, raising the specter of dangerous spillovers to the rest of the world economy.
Whittling down the euro area's mountain of debt was always going to (...)
Those on the front lines of the U.S. Gulf Coast oil spill say they are forced to fight two battles -- one against the crude washing into lush wetlands and another against needless bureaucracy, according to Reuters.
Sixty-one days after the BP Plc (...)
BP said today it plans to boost its ability to capture the oil gushing from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico by early next week as the Obama administration announced that the oil giant agreed to speed up payments to people whose livelihoods (...)
Officials at the Isle of Palms ordered everyone out of the water because of a dangerous animal. But it wasn't a shark this time.
Instead, wildlife officials ended up trapping a 6-foot long American crocodile in the surf Thursday.
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year program approved by the leaders of the Muslim countries.
The declaration of Makkah has reiterated that the Islamic civilization is an indivisible part of the human civilization, and it is based on the values of dialogue, moderation, justice, (...)