Nine dead and over 100 injured after fire rips through clothing factory in Bangladesh

A fire swept through a garment factory on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital on Saturday, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 100, police and witnesses said. The fire at the nine-story...

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14 killed in northern China restaurant explosion

An explosion at a restaurant in northern China has killed 14 people and injured 47. The government of Shouyang county in Shanxi province says on its official website that a gas leak caused the blast...

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A cruise for cremains

Yet another passenger ship could be about to anchor in Hong Kong's popular waters, but berths aboard this particular vessel will be more permanent. New sketches from a company in the city on China's...

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Survivor tells of boat tragedy near Christmas island

Thirty-three would-be asylum seekers have drowned on their way to Christmas Island in a boat tragedy that would have gone unrecorded if one man had not miraculously survived. Habib Ullah, 22, has...

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32 years later, fatal MGM fire remembered

Two distant, black columns of smoke caught John Pappageorge's eye as he drove to work on a crisp, 38-degree morning in November 1980. Pappageorge, then a deputy chief with the Clark County Fire Department,...

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Sandy debris in New York creates inviting spots to dump bodies

A forester working for New York City’s parks department made a horrifying discovery last week, beside a huge pile of fallen trees destined for the wood chipper. A dead man. And with that discovery...

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