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DHAKA, Bangladesh — A devastating fire raced through buildings in an old part of Bangladesh’s capital and killed at least 69 people, officials and witnesses said Thursday. About 50 other people were injured and the fire in Dhaka was mostly under control after more than nine hours of frantic efforts by firefighters. The Chawkbazar area

A large brush fire was reported burning on Big Pine Key at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office. At least two homes were evacuated mainly due

Kimi Raikkonen put his Alfa Romeo on top of the time sheets with the fastest lap of Formula One pre-season testing. He became the first to dip beneath the 1 minute 18 mark, out in Barcelona.

The 32-year-old actress fired hostess May from her Mykonos beach club and then rehired her during Monday's episode of her MTV reality show.

An editorial in The BMJ last year warned that even modern stoves carrying government-approved ‘eco-friendly’ labels emit pollution at the same rate as 25 ten-year-old diesel lorries.

A man was killed after several portable toilets caught fire outside the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens’ stadium in Maryland on Sunday, officials said. A security guard at the M&T Bank Stadium called police around 3 p.m. Sunday after noticing a man on fire running from one of the outdoor toilets before collapsing, WALB reported. “From what

Trump tore into Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI, after the former law enforcement official lifted the lid on conversations within Justice to oust the sitting president.

Dramatic footage shows Jason Parravicini confronting the activists outside his Harvey property in Southwest Western Australia on Wednesday.

This woman wants to star in children's movies produced by Disney. (And just did, in Ralph Breaks the Internet.)"

NEW DELHI — Police say a fire at a budget hotel in India’s capital that killed 17 people was likely caused by a short circuit. New Delhi Police Commissioner Amit Sharma said Wednesday that no foul play is suspected in the fire Tuesday that also left four people injured. The Delhi government minister of health

NEW DELHI — Seventeen people died in a fire early Tuesday at a hotel in western New Delhi, police said. At least four others were injured in the fire at the Arpit Palace Hotel, Deputy Police Commissioner Mandeep Singh Randhawa said. The medical conditions of the injured were not immediately known. The hotel is located

Missouri State University senior basketball player Jarred Dixon made an incredible shot from half court, just as time was running out on Sunday, to beat Illinois State by a score of 66-65.

Shocking police body camera footage shows Arizona cops Matt Schneider and Mark Lindsey taze Johnny Wheatcroft 11 times, even in the testicles, on July 27, 2017.

Charges were filed against a Massachusetts college student in connection to six separate dorm fires. Janelys Pimentel, a dorm resident assistant at Wheaton College, pleaded not guilty Friday to several charges, including arson and burning personal property, the Taunton Gazette reported. Norton Police said the 22-year-old senior is suspected of being behind the fires at

California firefighters revived a 90-year-old woman’s dog with CPR after it got trapped in a house fire on Wednesday night, video footage reveals. Footage of the heroic rescue obtained by the Sacramento Bee shows Sacramento Metro Fire District officials carrying a small dog, named Dicky, out from an Arden Area home in Sacramento County just

RIO DE JANEIRO — A fire tore through the sprawling training complex of one of Brazil’s biggest soccer clubs, killing 10 people and leaving three injured teenagers in Rio de Janeiro, firefighters said. Brazilian firefighters were called in just after 5 a.m. Friday to battle a blaze at the Ninho de Urubu training ground of

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — About 700 residents were evacuated from a New Zealand town on Friday as a forest fire threatened the area. Civil defense authorities decided to evacuate parts of Wakefield on the South Island. Authorities opened up a sports stadium as a welfare center and said they could accommodate people who didn’t have

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — About 700 residents were evacuated from a New Zealand town on Friday as a forest fire threatened the area. Civil defense authorities decided to evacuate parts of Wakefield on the South Island. Authorities opened up a sports stadium as a welfare center and said they could accommodate people who didn’t have

“Citizen” app users all know that feeling — when they get a notification, alerting them to a crime or incident going down in their area, or possibly just blocks away. Now imagine waking up at 4 a.m. to a message about a fire, which is raging inside your own building. That’s exactly what happened to

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Someone give this man a Scooby Snack. A Facebook video shows an animal control officer performing life-saving, mouth-to-mouth CPR on three puppies after a house fire broke out in Oklahoma. Fox 23 Tulsa reported that firefighters handed Chris Brassfield the three limp animals, then his instincts took over with “no hesitation.” “It was a little gross

Trump ripped into the late senator during a private lunch for television anchors Tuesday afternoon ahead of his State of the Union speech in Washington.

SHELTON, Conn. — A former volunteer firefighter in Connecticut accused of drunkenly setting a fire behind a Shelton firehouse has taken a plea deal in the case. Forty-five-year-old Gregory Bomba pleaded guilty to reckless burning Tuesday, and has agreed to a five-year suspended prison sentence and three years of probation when he is sentenced. The

PARIS — A fire in a Paris apartment building early Tuesday killed seven people and sent residents fleeing to the roof or climbing out their windows to escape, authorities said. The cause of the blaze that injured 28 people is unclear. Firefighters were still searching for other victims and working to extinguish the blaze, according