Xinjiang coal mine explosion kills 21

A gas explosion killed twenty-one miners early Friday morning at a coal mine in northwestern China, the government said, but the exact cause was not immediately known. More than a dozen other miners...

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Dec. 16, 1943: Worst US train collision frozen in memory of witnesses

Seventy years ago this weekend, as North Carolina marked the 40th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ first flight, disaster struck on snow-covered railroad tracks in Robeson County. It had been an...

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Suspected mass grave found in Serbia

Human remains believed to be the bodies of hundreds of Albanians killed during the 1998-99 war in Kosovo have found been just inside the Serbian border, a Kosovo official said this afternoon. More...

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