Another shooting incident has been reported from USA. This time from state of washington. The shootout has killed six people and two are injured. The shooter has been identified and he is well known criminal with mental problems. 28-year-old Isaac Zamora of Alger, known to...
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Goes to show we are always building upon the past. Here is the basic rundown used on several sites. "In Hollywood films, shipwrecks are generally found by good-looking renegade treasure-hunters with a soft spot, but highway tunnel construction workers were the heroes of the...
12 Algerian employees of Canadian construction and engineering company, SNC-Lavalin Group, were killed Wednesday after a car bomb exploded near a water treatment facility in Algeria. The explosion is being investigated by local authorities and the company. "A car...
"The picture postcard was sent in 1929 from Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, and intended for Mr and Mrs Richardson in East Dulwich, London. However it was not delivered until a week ago when it finally dropped through the letter box of Arthur Davies and June Nicolopoulos...
Pro-Tibetan activists unfurled a banner proclaiming "Free Tibet" over an Olympics poster at the headquarters of China's nationwide TV broadcaster. This is the latest in a string of unsanctioned protests during the...
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As a foreigner in Berlin, these articles never cease to amaze me. By some estimates - British and American Bombers dropped over 2 million tons of bombs on Germany during WW2. As the city of Berlin (and...
From my personal blog:"July 31st marked the end of a battle for the air permit needed to progress plans to build a 1500 megawatt coal burning power plant in the middle of Navajo Nation territory. The EPA has signed...
The high-rise building in New York that was damaged by a crane that fell on it and killed seven people, is now facing foreclosure and loss of the entire property.In case you have forgotten the story, here is a link...
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UPDATE: 6:14PM EST" Emergency personnel could not remove any dead bodies and many people are still buried under the rubble. "For the past two hours, no person has been rescued yet and no dead bodies have been removed. They are still digging through the rubble," police...
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- It would cost at least $140 billion to repair all the nation's bridges if work began immediately, a nationwide safety organization said in a comprehensive report Monday. ...
OBSERVER reporter Ed Vulliamy exposed the Bosnian concentration camps. In the wake of Radovan Karadzic's arrest this week, Muslim figurehead Fikret Alic, whose image was imprinted on the world's media is...
If there hasn't been a conspiracy going on in the house building industry these past few years then at least some evidence of collusion is becoming apparent. There are too many faces looking...
An elderly man watching a construction site from his car was killed when a crane fell putting a steeple on an Oklahoma City church earlier today."Ambulance officials say a 78-year-old woman who was also in the car was transported to a hospital in good condition.The accident...
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- The driver of a backhoe was shot and killed after he drove the construction machine over a number of vehicles near the Jerusalem hotel where Barack Obama is scheduled to stay Tuesday night,...
... is the name of the highway that runs between Vancouver and Whistler, where all the skiing etc events will be held in 2010. This notoriously dangerous, winding coastal highway has been under construction for...
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