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Four people have been killed and four more injured in an explosion inside a building in Leicester, triggering power outages and a partial evacuation of the area. Local fire brigades, the ambulance service, and police in Leicestershire responded to reports of an explosion and fire at a building on Hinckley Road Monday morning, according to […]
Five oil rig workers in Oklahoma are missing following an explosion at a gas well. The fire reached “everything” on location at the well situated about 100 miles southeast of the city of Tulsa. As of 3:30pm, secondary fires that started after the explosion have been extinguished, but the head of a collapsed derrick, a […]
Authorities in Florida are looking for a suspect they believe tried to blow up a mall in Lake Wales. At around 5:20pm, Lake Wales firefighters began responding to reports of an explosion at the Eagle Ridge Mall next to a JC Penny retail store. Emergency services personnel rushed to the scene where they discovered that […]
Getty Images / Spencer Platt Upward revisions to S&P 500 profit forecasts have provided crucial fuel for the stock market’s ascent to new record highs. US equities are surging so much, so quickly, that some Wall Street strategist year-end forecasts have already been surpassed. It’s no coincidence that the stock market‘s latest batch of record […]
Enlarge (credit: Zechariah Judy) In the early 2000s, a deadly gut infection began to surge. After decades of lurking in intestines and hospitals—more opportunistic nuisance than lethal threat—the bacterium Clostridium difficile abruptly exploded, spreading rapidly and causing more severe diarrheal disease than ever before. By 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that […]
Lucas Jackson/Reuters Wall Streeters are getting their bonuses soon. The director of the Digital Currency Group predicts a bitcoin “buying frenzy” when the bonuses hit. Many market observers expect the crypto markets will have sharp spikes up and down this year compared to 2017. A few weeks ago the bitcoin traded at more than […]
Reuters/Anton Vaganov At least 10 people were injured in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday after an explosion at a supermarket. Investigators said the explosives were inside a locker in the supermarket meant to store customers’ bags. Russian authorities are investigating the incident as an attempted murder. At least 10 people were injured Wednesday by […]
New York, USA, has been hit by a potential terror attack after a suspected pipe bomb was detonated at Port Authority bus terminal. The NYPD tweeted to confirm there are four injuries, one of which is the bomber, as a result of the explosion, although none are life threatening. They have also confirmed one male […]
It seems like Argentina’s missing submarine may have exploded. The navy heard a “short, violent” explosion that would make some sense as the fate of the missing submarine. The sub had 44 on board and has been missing since last week. BAHIA BLANCA, Argentina (Reuters) – An abnormal sound detected in the South Atlantic ocean […]
Enlarge / During the Ordovician, life was literally great. Multicellular plants and animals diversified and moved into ecological niches throughout the globe. This is probably what it was like on a typical Ordovician day, hanging out with cephalopods, crinoids, and coral at the edge of a supercontinent that covered the South Pole. I think a […]
