A fuel tanker-truck carrying close to 9,000 gallons of diesel fuel exploded outside of Houston just before midnight on Thursday night. Firefighters worked through Friday morning to subdue the fire. The truck was travelling on the Southwest on the road to Sugarland, Texas, when the the truck caught fire. Moments after the driver pulled to ...
Speraking at the State Department Ms Clinton said: “While those changes and sacrifices are certainly painful, they are necessary.” Eurozone leaders said they had reached agreement on a comprehensive package of measures to tackle the eurozone’s sovereign debt crisis. Mr Lambrinidis said the EU deal with private banks and insurers to slash Greece’s debt burden ...
The President said the ongoing eurozone debt crisis could “have an impact on our businesses and our ability to create jobs here in the US”. He said the deal to expand a bail-out fund was an important first step and had help to mollify market jitters. “We’ve seen the message that they are going to ...
The cannon was retrieved from the wreck of Queen Anne’s Revenge, the ship used by infamous English pirate Blackbeard, who operated around the West Indies and the east coast of the American colonies. The shipwreck lies in about 25ft of water just off the coast of the American state of North Carolina and the expedition ...
While media coverage has centred on tales of against-the-odds rescues including a 2-week-old baby girl who was pulled alive from the rubble, most stories of the trapped have ended with death and despair. “I was not at home,” Mr Sonmez said, lapsing into silence at times. “God gave them, God took them away. I can’t ...
Sean McAllister was working for Channel 4 News covering the rebellion in the country when he was detained in a Damascus café last week. He said he and his local contact Jihad were blindfolded and driven at speed to a prison in the city. “I was placed on a seat in an empty room on ...
“Thriller” singer Jackson, who died aged 50 of a drug overdose, is estimated to have earned $170 million in the past year, which also places him as the second highest-earning pop music act this year, dead or alive, Forbes.com said. Jackson’s physician at the time of his death, Dr. Conrad Murray, is currently on trial ...
After being arrested on Sunday, the 27-year-old told police that being unemployed and in debt led him to set 67 cars alight over three months. He targeted brands such as Audi, BMW and Mercedes, and the fires spread to 35 more cars parked nearby. The near-nightly attacks, which were often started by slow-burning barbecue lighters, ...
His burial at sea in full armour and in a lead casket was designed to ensure that no one – but especially the Spanish – would find his body. Now, more than 400 years after Sir Francis Drake’s death in the Caribbean, the great seafarer may be about to give up the ghost. A team ...
Prince Nayef, who has been interior minister for more than 40 years, was appointed second deputy prime minister two years ago, a post which made him second-in-line to the throne currently occupied by King Abdullah. The two men’s brother, Crown Prince Sultan, died on Saturday, leaving Prince Nayef almost certain to step into the role. ...
