Building Collapses in Nigeria, Killing 16

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.

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Building Collapses in Nigeria; 14 Dead

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.

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Death in Explosion Declared a Suicide

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.

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Suspect in NYC Building Collapse Dies

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."

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Suspect in NYC Town House Explosion Dies

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."

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Neighbors Sue NYC Doctor in House Blast

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.

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Tampering Found at NYC Town House Blast

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.

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Summary: NYC Building Collapse Hurts 15

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Suicide Attempt Probed in NYC Collapse

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.

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Report: China Building Collapse Kills 2

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.

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Building Collapses in Brazil, Killing 7

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.

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Elks Leader Dies in Building Collapse

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.

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1 Dies in Mo. Building Collapse, 9 Rescued

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.

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Poles Arrested in January Hall Collapse

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.

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Mo. Agency Kicks AG Off Reservoir Probe

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.

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Mo. Gov. Candidate to Return Donations

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.

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Explosion at Turkish Mine Leaves 17 Dead

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.

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Church Floor Collapses in Indiana

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.

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N.Y. Gas Rig Collapses Killing Worker

One worker was killed and three others were hurt early Friday when a natural gas drilling rig collapsed, authorities said.

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Naval Med Center Scaffold Collapse Hurts 3

Five stories of scaffolding collapsed at a medical school building Friday, injuring three workers on the campus of the National Naval Medical Center.

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Bridge Collapses in Denmark; 1 Killed

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.

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3 People Die in Boston Crane Collapse

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.

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Construction, Snow Blamed in Roof Collapse

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.

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SUV Swallowed by NYC Street Sinkhole

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.

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Building Partially Collapses in England

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.

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Gas line tampered with in collapsed NY house

A gas pipe in the basement of a posh Manhattan mansion that collapsed in a possible suicide attempt had been tampered with prior to the explosion, police said on Tuesday.

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Building collapses in New York City

A three-story building collapsed in Manhattan on Monday morning after what may have been an explosion, resulting in injuries, officials and witnesses said.

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Dutch swing to left seen after government collapse

From the page: -- The collapse of the Dutch centre-right government over immigration policy will lead to an opposition Labour victory in early elections, probably in September or October, an opinion poll showed on Friday. --

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Money in the Bank?

For a country still only 5% of the world economy, China's share of mind -the degree to which its economic affairs attract international notice - is outsized.

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U.S. Troops Cleared In Ishaqi Raid Probe

Now why am I still suspicious about that AC-130?

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The end of an organized religion?

A 12th century prophet who is claimed to to have predicted the identities of all the Popes from his own time until what he said would be the end of time, may have got it right again ? in which case the future looks gloomy . Saint Malachy, the Archbishop of Ireland, visited Rome  …

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THE PARADIGM IS THE ENEMY: The State of the Peak Oil Movement at the Cusp of Collapse .

A Speech by Michael C. Ruppert for the Local Solutions to the Energy Dilemma Conference April 27-29, New York City, at Cooper Union

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TechRepublic Blog: Is Microsoft about to collapse?

What can I say? It's plausible. Microsoft makes most of its money from Office and Windows. Two tools that are increasingly losing relevance to the home and business users, and also increasingly taking heat from alternative products.

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Nigeria skyscraper crumbles in downpour

We have had a couple of fierce storms move through the area over the past couple of days, but this points more to the damage done by the fire and the generally decrepit state of the maintenance of this and most buildings in Lagos.

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Roof Collapse in Lubbock Kills at Least One

Lubbock, Texas -- A roof collapse at the Little Panda Chinese restaurant on Slide Road has claimed at least one life and injured nine others. The nine were taken to area hospitals, with two of the injured in serious condition.

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Canada's pride, socialized health care, in state of collapse

Even the New York Times stumbles across the truth occasionally. The country's publicly financed health insurance system — frequently described as the third rail of its political system and a core value of its national identity — is gradually breaking down.

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Impact Lab - The Coming Collapse of Income Tax

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