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Police released a composite sketch Monday of a man thought to be involved in a train bombing that killed 26 people, and a railway official suggested the attack had the hallmarks of terrorism by saboteurs from the volatile North Caucasus.

A British soldier has been killed in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.

An explosive device went off under a train in the Russian North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan on Monday, a local emergencies spokesman said, according to RIA Novosti .

Learning anatomy with cadavers is a centuries-old rite of passage that once again is getting a face-lift as medical schools struggle to mix this core knowledge with an explosion of new information from the genetics revolution.

Ranchi, Nov 29 : Maoist guerrillas in Jharkhand blew up rail tracks in two places, blasted a railway station building and a school building and set off another explosion injuring four people as they enforced a two-day shutdown from Sunday in the state ahead of the assembly polls.

Eight workers have been injured in an explosion at a middle school in southeastern Virginia.Newport News Police spokesman Lou Thurston says the workers suffered varying injuries in Sunday morning's blast at Crittenden Middle School.The cause was being investigated by police, the fire marshal's office and the Virginia Department of Labor and ...

A 20,000-gallon tank of crude oil exploded and caught fire in Ventura County, but there were no injuries.

Drive-by shootings, murders and extortion are the new calling cards of a weakened insurgency in Mosul, replacing suicide bombings as the worst nightmare for residents of the northern Iraqi city.

In another coal mine blast accident in Xingren County of southwest China's Guizhou Province, rescuers work at the accident site yesterday.

A 13th prisoner arrested during his attempted escape said the tunnel took 10 days to dig and the plan was to slowly empty the prison overnight, Askar said.

Flooding has trapped 17 coal miners in northeastern China, while the death toll from a gas blast at another mine rose to 10, a government official and state media said Saturday.

NJ pep rally bonfire explosion ruled accidental VINELAND, N.J. - November 27, 2009 A bonfire explosion that disrupted a Thanksgiving eve pep rally at a southern New Jersey high school has been ruled an accident.

An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed late Friday, killing at least 22 people and injuring dozens of others, emergency officials said.

Two Indian Reserve Battalion troopers were killed and three others injured when suspected Maoists triggered a landmine blast in the Lalgarh belt of West Bengal's West Midnapore district on Friday.

A former anesthesiologist has admitted to making pipe bombs that were part of an arsenal seized at his apartment, federal agents say.

Hundreds of mourners will gather for the funeral of a soldier killed in an explosion in Afghanistan.

An explosion at a coal mine in southwest China has killed nine workers and left one missing, less than a week after a mine blast at the other end of the country killed at least 107.

In the McDonough County town of Bushnell, Thanksgiving turned out to be a day of cleanup and repair for the residents of one neighborhood.

Pulaski County authorities suspect a gas leak may be responsible for an explosion in a rural mobile home.

Joseph Kuzava was seriously injured when the home he rents at 8 Chaucer Street apparently exploded early this morning.

BOZEMAN - NorthWestern Energy says it is not responsible for the death of a 36-year-old woman who was killed in a March 5 natural gas explosion in downtown Bozeman that destroyed half a city block.

A roadside bomb targeting a police officer exploded in the main northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, injuring three people in the latest of a wave of attacks to strike the area since the army launched a major anti-Taliban offensive last month.

CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohioa 'Authorities say they found dozens of pipe bombs and an assortment of firearms at an Ohio apartment where a man was injured in an explosion.

A deer hunter was arrested on Tuesday after he allegedly shot into a house in the Town of Burke, according to the Dane County Sheriff's Department.

Beijing, Nov 25 The figure of deaths caused by a gas explosion in a coal mine in the Chinese province of Heilongjiang already stood at 106, after rescue teams recovered to corpses on Wednesday.

Investigators are looking for the cause of a house explosion that injured six people in western Greenbrier County.

Three Palestinians have been injured in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical workers have said.

LAHORE: An elderly couple was burnt to death after a gas-powered water geyser exploded in Qila Gujjar Singh on Tuesday.

Khalid Sheik Mohammed has acknowledged doing what his nephew Ramzi Yousef couldn't: toppling the World Trade Center towers.He will soon be given a chance to repeat another of his nephew's endeavors: using a Manhattan federal courtroom as a pulpit to argue that he is a political prisoner in a war between the West and Islam.Yousef was convicted of ...

Too many miners were below ground at a coal mine where 104 workers were killed in a gas explosion, a safety official charged, as rescuers pressed on Tuesday with the hunt for four missing men.

Six people were hurt Monday morning in a house explosion near McRoss in Greenbrier County.

HEGANG, China a ' The coal mine that exploded in northern China, killing 104, had too many workers underground in an effort to increase output, a government official said Monday, exposing the risks often taken to meet the country's insatiable energy demands.

Russia's former leading investor Bill Browder describes large country as 'criminal state' Eight soldiers were killed and two others injured in a massive blast at a Russian ammunition depot - 10 days after explosions ripped through the same site.

The death toll from a coal mine blast in northeast China has risen to 104, local authorities have said.

Three of the Americans died in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the statement said.

Hopes of finding more survivors from a huge coal mine blast in China took a blow Monday with the recovery of 12 bodies, raising the death toll to 104 in the nation's worst mining disaster in two years.

Five Afghan border policemen have been killed in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan.

Two people are confirmed dead from an explosion at a Jackson County shipyard. Jackson County Coroner Vicky Broadus identified the two men who died as 25-year-old Alex Caballero of Pascagoula and 52- year-old Dwight Monroe of Moss Point.

India Gazette Sunday 22nd November, 2009 Two people were injured Sunday when a bomb exploded outside a police station in Assam's Nalbari district, police said.

Police arrested 32 mine employees at a Rustenburg mine after an explosion during a sit-in which injured three police officers, a spokesperson said on Saturday.

Nov. 20: Afghan police and Army soldiers rush to the scene where a rocket hit outside the luxury Serena Hotel.

Of those, the military reports 650 were killed by hostile action. Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 72 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Officials say at least one person was killed Friday in an explosion at the VT Halter Marine shipyard in the Mississippi coastal city of Moss Point.

A gas explosion tore through a coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 23 people and trapping another 90 nearly a third of a mile under ground, central government authorities said.

A storage tank roof that sank at a Sinclair Oil refinery earlier this year and caused Wyoming's biggest spill in decades wasn't unprecedented: A storage tank roof also sank at the refinery in 2007.

Authorities say the unidentified victims were taken by helicopter to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola and later moved to the University of South Alabama Burn Center in Mobile Thursday afternoon.

A bomb blast outside the main gate of a court building in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar has killed 16 people, and injured 26 others.

Afghan soldiers secure a street in Kabul on Thursday. KABUL - A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 13 people, including a police officer, and wounded 30 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan .

Two Atlanta television reporters are recovering from minor injuries they received when their news truck touched power lines and caused an explosion.

An explosion during a training exercise at Fort Pickett near Blackstone has injured more than a dozen soldiers.

A court has acquitted a subsidiary of French oil giant Total and a former factory chief in a 2001 explosion at a chemical plant that killed 31 people.

A suicide bomber killed 19 people Thursday outside a courthouse in northwestern Pakistan, the latest attack in an onslaught by Islamist militants fighting back against an army offensive in the nearby Afghan border region.

Afghanistan will control its own security within five years and prosecute corrupt officials, President Hamid Karzai pledged Thursday in an inauguration speech made under intense pressure to shed the cronyism and graft that marked his government's first term.

The Defence Force has released the name of the air force officer killed at Waiouru Military Camp in the central North Island on Thursday.

A British army bomb disposal expert killed by an explosion in Afghanistan has been named by the Ministry of Defence as Cpl Loren Marlton-Thomas. The 28-year-old, from 33 Engineer Regiment, based in Wimbish, Essex, died on Sunday in Gereshk, Helmand province.

A malfunctioning fuel monitoring system was the likely cause of an Oct. 23 explosion and massive fire at a Puerto Rican fuel storage depot, the US Chemical Safety Board said on Tuesday.

Share + Nov 18, 2009 8:40 am US/Mountain Reporting Karen Leigh BRUSH, Colo. The Federal Aviation Administration is researching why a chunk of ice slammed into a Colorado woman's home.

An intelligence official in the area said Taliban attacked the government-run school overnight when no one was at the property.

Iraqi police officers insect a damaged vehicle following a car bomb explosion in Kirkuk 290 kilometers north of Baghdad , Iraq on Monday, Nov.

Border Security Force Deputy Inspector General O.P. Tanwar was killed and two of his security guards and driver were injured Monday in a landmine explosion triggered close to an India-Pakistan border post in Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.

A father and son believe a meteorite recently landed in their backyard in Liberal.

Two people are hospitalized after their Weld County farmhouse exploded and burned.

LONDON: Gordon Brown plans to host talks in the new year to discuss timing for handing over the campaign in Afghanistan to the Afghan government.

Guwahati, Nov 17 : At least 20 wagons were damaged in Assam when a goods train carrying petroleum products went up in flames.

Two people were hurt in a grain dryer explosion at the West Central Cooperative in Boxholm shortly before 9 a.m. today.

Share + Nov 16, 2009 8:30 pm US/Eastern DANVERS A woman whose home was destroyed and a man who lost his boat when an explosion shook a Danvers factory nearly three years ago have are suing a company that supplied chemicals they say were involved in the blast.

The serviceman died in the blast near Gereshk, in Helmand province yesterday afternoon.

Two people were seriously injured early Monday in a fire after an explosion at a farmhouse in Weld County.

THAI police said on Monday that a grenade was responsible for a blast at a rally by opponents of fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, as the number of injured rose to 12.

A pickup truck laden with explosives has detonated outside a police station in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 3 people in an area that has become the focal point for militant retaliation against a recent army offensive.

A woman and her infant son have died in a home explosion in mid-Missouri. Firefighters rushed to the home in rural Callaway County after receiving a report of an explosion around 4 p.m. Saturday.

A late-night explosion that shook Beta Steel Corp.'s Northern Indiana hot-strip rolling mill injured eight workers, six of whom required medical care.

A 10-year-old girl was airlifted to hospital suffering from "significant" burns after a chemical explosion at her school.

An injured soldier from Doncaster who lost both legs and much of his left arm in an explosion in Afghanistan has paid his respects to the fallen of the First World War.

At least 11 persons were killed and more than 28 injured in a suicide attack carried out with the help of an explosive-laden car at a police check post in Pishtakhara Payan, Peshawar suburban area, here on Saturday.

Two soldiers and a civilian, all US citizens, have been killed in two roadside bomb explosions in Afghanistan over the weekend.

A suicide car bomb destroyed an office complex of Pakistan's main spy agency in the north western city of Peshawar earlier today, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 50.

By our correspondents PESHAWAR/BANNU: Over 17 persons, including 12 security men, died on Friday after suicide bombers targeted the ISI offices in Peshawar and a police station in Bannu.

A small group of U.S. war veterans, the age difference among them as wide as 70 years, gathered last Saturday at American Legion Post 177 in Fairfax, Va., for a special event at the annual Veterans' Day Community Fair.

At least two people have been killed after a series of explosions and fires at a weapons depot in central Russia, officials say.

A series of powerful blasts ignited a fire Friday at a Russian army munitions depot in the outskirts of Ulyanovsk, a city about 900 kilometers east of Moscow, Russian media reported.

A Utah oil refinery is shutting down after a gas explosion earlier this month damaged 10 homes.

A police officer has described to a court the chaotic aftermath following a massive explosion at an East Sussex fireworks factory which killed two firemen.

Oil giant Total UK has admitted health and safety breaches in connection with the massive Buncefield oil depot explosion.

A family whose members suffered burns whena natural gas pipeline exploded last week in the Texas Panhandle are suing the companies involved.

An explosion has hit a NATO-led military base in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, wounding four foreigners and three civilians, a military spokesman said.

Authorities say seven people have been killed and 35 wounded in a bomb blast outside the headquarters of Pakistan's spy agency in the northwest.

RODEO, Calif. a " A natural gas leak is the likely cause of an explosion at a Rodeo apartment complex that injured three.Authorities say the blast at the Bayo Vista public housing complex blew the wall off a vacant apartment and injured two adults and a 12-year-old child in an adjacent unit.

Five Swedish soldiers were injured in an explosion that also claimed the life of a local foreign language interpreter, the Swedish Armed Forces said in a statement on Wednesday.

Sgt. Vince Adams of Winnipeg after Remembrance Day ceremonies at Kandahar Airfield, Nov.

THE mother of a British soldier killed by an explosion in Afghanistan yesterday said he 'just wanted to be a hero'. Devastated mother-of-two Coline Bassett, 40, said Rifleman Samuel Bassett, 20, was witty, clever and 'the man of the house' who 'could have done so much more'. She called for an end to all conflict around the world and spoke of her ...

Families whose loved ones made the ultimate sacrifice for their country have reacted angrily to news that civil servants at the Ministry of Defence have shared performance bonuses of almost 300 million since the start of the war in Iraq.

Islamabad, Nov 11 : At least 10 soldiers were killed and 10 more went missing in two separate attacks by Taliban militants in Pakistan's restive tribal region, officials said Wednesday.

Military divers have found the body of a U.S. paratrooper who disappeared last week along with another soldier as the two tried to retrieve airdropped supplies from a river in western Afghanistan, NATO said Wednesday.

Four people were killed and two people were injured Tuesday when a tractor-trailer crashed into vehicles that were stopped in an Interstate 30 construction zone near Texarkana and set off an explosion.

Share + Comments Nov 9, 2009 3:24 pm US/Mountain PUEBLO, Colo. No criminal charges will be filed in a natural gas leak and explosion that destroyed a Pueblo restaurant and a shop, killing one person and injuring seven.

It was a poignant tribute to a "soldier's soldier" just one day before Canadians publicly gather to remember the country's war dead.

Two Afghanistan servicemen were killed by a mine at a time when a metal detector shortage was causing "concern" in the unit, an inquest has heard.

The president and first lady Michelle Obama began an afternoon of consolation by meeting privately with family members of those killed last week on this enormous Army post.

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A police officer says a bomb near a crowded market in northwest Pakistan has killed at least five people.

Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in American veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-like brain injuries - signature damage of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Two firemen died in a huge explosion at a fireworks factory near Lewes because of "gross negligence" in the storage of explosives, a court heard today.

A British soldier killed in an explosion in Afghanistan was described as a "shining prospect for the future". Rifleman Philip Allen, from 2nd Battalion the Rifles was serving with A Company, 4th Battalion the Rifles, when he died on Saturday.

Authorities say a west Michigan man was hospitalized with burns and other injuries after he tried to dispose of old fireworks by burning them in his backyard.

The mother of a soldier who was killed in Afghanistan has accused Gordon Brown of disrespecting her son's memory by misspelling their surname in a letter of condolence.

A suicide bomber in a rickshaw detonated his explosives near a group of police constables in northwest Pakistan's main city of Peshawar, killing three people Monday, police said.

PESHAWAR: Fifteen people, including the Nazim of the Adezai Union Council, were killed and 42 others sustained injuries in a suicide attack near the Matani cattle market, some 25 kilometres from here, on Sunday.

Hydrogen gas leaked from a pipe and made contact with a nearby heater, causing a refinery explosion that damaged at least a dozen homes here this week, according to early findings from investigators.

A suicide bombing in northwestern Pakistan left 12 people dead and at least 25 others injured on Sunday, officials said.

There are few songs as mournful and haunting as Taps played for a fallen warrior, and on an isolated combat outpost in southern Afghanistan it has been sounded for David Baker, a 22-year-old Marine lance corporal who was just six weeks short of going home when he was killed in an explosion.

SALT LAKE CITY - A science experiment shows how the homes in Woods Cross were damaged on Wednesday by the blast at the Silver Eagle Refinery.

An army bomb disposal team has made safe a viable device from outside a house in Dublin.

Ramadi, Iraq - Three people were killed in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Thursday in an explosion that quickly followed a bomb targeting a senior police officer's car, security and health officials said.

An early-morning explosion at a Dallas apartment complex today injured two people and destroyed a building containing the laundry room and offices.

An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf onto another and detonates in a thermonuclear explosion.

THE moment a special forces soldier was killed by a Taliban booby trap whilst protecting "impatient" Afghan police was recounted at an inquest.

SYMMES TWP., Ohio -- An investigation is underway after an explosion at Rozzi's fireworks in Symmes Township sent two people to the hospital Friday afternoon.

Two Southland teenagers are being treated in Dunedin Hospital for severe burns after an explosion that blew the doors off the car they were in inside a garage.

A massive blast at a production plant in St. Joseph rocked part of the city but initial reports were that everyone at the plant escaped injury.KQTV reports that the explosion at the AG Processing Inc.

More fines are now suggested for alleged safety violations at a West Carrollton facility that blew up back in May.

Four men suffered burns and chemical injuries when a flash fire sparked during the trial of a new wastewater measuring tool at a Bonita Springs Utilities plant on Thursday evening.

Children collect stationery from the debris of a girls school after it was bombed by alleged Taliban militants in the Khyber tribal region of Pakistan Militants blew up a girls' school in Pakistan's Khyber district yesterday, the second such attack in the lawless region on the Afghan border in four days, officials said.

The operator of an eastern Pennsylvania coal mine has been sentenced to prison and the owner to house arrest in connection with a mine explosion that killed a man three years ago.

A British soldier has been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan. The serviceman, from 3rd Battalion The Rifles, died near Sangin in Helmand Province on Thursday morning, said the Ministry of Defence.

Flames blazed more than 400 feet high above a natural gas line explosion that rocked Bushland, Texas about 1 a.m. Thursday Nov.

WANA/PESHAWAR: Security forces advanced towards Janta on Tuesday after securing areas around the Taliban stronghold of Srarogha in the South Waziristan Agency, where 21 militants and one soldier were reported dead by the ISPR.

An explosive device detonated in an East Lansing yard late Sunday -- allegedly by four Michigan State University freshmen -- was a 3-inch mortar powerful enough to have killed somebody, an MSU police spokeswoman said.

An explosion Wednesday morning at a refinery shook homes throughout south Davis County and left three homes uninhabitable due to structural damage.

Times of Oman November 2, 2009 Monday 393 words Suicide bomber kills 24 at Pakistan hotel AFP RAWALPINDI: A suicide bomber targeted workers queuing for their salaries outside a Pakistan bank and hotel on Monday, killing 24 people as the United Nations pulled expatriate staff from the northwest.

More than 10 years after an explosion of violence and death at the office of a Southfield psychiatrist, the Michigan Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday about whether the estate of the slain psychiatrist is liable for injuries a patient suffered when a former patient shot them.

South East Asia News.Net Monday 2nd November, 2009 A group of Indian men, who were sharing a flat above an Internet cafe in this Australian city, were forced to flee after an explosion early Monday morning, a media report said.

An exiled Iranian opposition group called on the U.N. nuclear agency Tuesday to waste no time in examining a hidden site near Tehran that it claims is used to help build nuclear detonators.

Patricia Shappee described the explosions and fires that rocked South Park Welding Supplies on Monday morning in one word: "horrifying." She was one of the few employees at the business at 50 Gratiot Blvd.

The family of the latest Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan says he died doing what he loved.

A BOMB disposal expert based at Didcota s Vauxhall Barracks has been killed in an explosion in Helmand Province in Afghanistan.

Multiple explosions rocked a Michigan welding supply plant after an acetylene tank burst into flames on Monday, sending an employee to the hospital and prompting many homes and businesses to evacuate, authorities said.

A North Carolina Army post is trying to explain why a civilian was killed in an explosion near a firing range observation point.Fort Bragg spokesman Tom McCollum said Monday base officials are trying to sort out what happened.Post officials say two civilians were in the area that overlooks the range where soldiers practice firing artillery, tank ...

People hug each other in front of bodies of a bombing victims at a local hospital in Rawalpindi.

Autopsy results are expected Monday for two teenagers killed in a weekend explosion at an oil-holding tank in south Forrest County.

A bicycle loaded with explosives killed five people and wounded 37 at a market in Mussayab, south of Baghdad, on Sunday and a bomb on a bus killed at least three more further south in Kerbala, police and health officials said.

Bernice and Jerry Angely like to show visitors the singed T-shirt a friend was wearing when their water well exploded and shot flames 30 feet high.

The U.S. military says insurgents have killed two members of the international force in Afghanistan in bomb attacks.

A British soldier has been killed in an explosion near Sangin in central Helmand Province, Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence said.

A cloud of smoke and flames billows out after a major fire at an Indian Oil depot in the Sitapura area of Jaipur on Thursday.