A four-story apartment building collapsed overnight in Nigeria's commercial capital, and Red Cross officials helping pull survivors out of the rubble Wednesday said at least 16 people were killed.
A four-story apartment building collapsed overnight in Nigeria's commercial capital, and Red Cross officials helping pull survivors out of the rubble Wednesday said at least 14 people were killed.
A doctor suspected of blowing up his Manhattan town house to avoid selling it in a divorce settlement died from his severe burns, the medical examiner's office said Monday in declaring his death a suicide.
Faced with losing his Upper East Side town house in a divorce judgment, the doctor warned in an e-mail: "I will leave the house only if I am dead."
Faced with losing his Manhattan town house in a divorce judgment, Dr. Nicholas Bartha warned in an e-mail: "I will leave the house only if I am dead."
The next-door neighbors of a New York doctor sued him Friday, claiming the violent explosion that turned his Manhattan town house into rubble this week damaged their cooperative apartment and forced them to leave it.
Investigators confirmed Tuesday that a gas line had been tampered with before a landmark town house was leveled by an explosion, narrowing their focus on the building's owner, who is suspected of setting off the blast in a botched suicide attempt during a bitter divorce.
Authorities were investigating whether a doctor who survived the explosion of a four-story home on Manhattan's Upper East Side might have caused the blast rather than sell the multimillion-dollar building as part of a divorce judgment in his ex-wife's favor.
A seven-story apartment building collapsed early Friday in the major city of Zhengzhou in central China, killing at least two people and burying an unknown number of others, the government news agency said.
A two-story abandoned building collapsed onto three neighboring houses and a construction supply store in northeastern Brazil, killing seven people and injuring seven others, firefighters said Wednesday.
The leader of an Elks Club who went upstairs to memorize a speech for an initiation ceremony was found dead in the rubble of the brick lodge Tuesday after the century-old building collapsed.
Rescuers saved nine people trapped in the rubble of a three-story building that partially collapsed during an Elks club dinner, but the club's leader was found dead early Tuesday, about 12 hours after the roof fell in, officials said.
Three men who helped design an exhibition hall that collapsed in January, killing 65 people, were arrested Monday on suspicion of endangering lives by failing to meet building codes.
A state agency investigating a reservoir collapse said Monday it will not allow the Missouri attorney general to represent it because he accepted campaign donations from the reservoir's operator.
Missouri's attorney general, a candidate for governor, agreed Thursday to return more than $19,000 in donations that came indirectly from a utility he is investigating over the catastrophic collapse of a reservoir.
The death toll from a methane gas explosion in a Turkish coal mine rose to 17 on Friday after firefighters, troops and miners worked through the night to recover the bodies.
A portion of a floor in a storefront church collapsed Thursday night, sending some of the 30 people attending a meeting plummeting into the basement.
One worker was killed and three others were hurt early Friday when a natural gas drilling rig collapsed, authorities said.
Five stories of scaffolding collapsed at a medical school building Friday, injuring three workers on the campus of the National Naval Medical Center.
A bridge undergoing repair work collapsed onto a highway in northwestern Denmark on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring at least five others, including one seriously, police said.
A 10-ton construction platform collapsed and crashed 13 stories onto a busy downtown street Monday, killing three people and crushing cars stopped in midday traffic.
The collapse of a roof at an exhibition hall in southern Poland that killed 65 people in January was caused by construction faults and heavy snowfalls, the construction minister said Friday.
A city street collapsed under a sports utility vehicle early Monday, leaving the vehicle nose down into a deep sinkhole that officials said was caused by a water main break.
The ground floor of a small building where a funeral was taking place collapsed in central England on Sunday when the mourners surged forward to see the coffin, witnesses said. About 25 people were injured.