– Tue, Aug 21, 2012NEW YORK (AP) — Blasting at the construction site for a New York City subway line has shattered windows and sent smoke billowing up to the street.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokeswoman Marjorie Anders says contractors building a tunnel for the Second Avenue subway used too much explosive. She says no one was injured.
Anders says the blast happened at about 1 p.m. Tuesday at East 72nd Street and Second Avenue. Fire trucks are at the scene.
The frenzy for last minute tickets is over. The numbers have been picked out. Somewhere, a single person is $590.5 million richer. Last night's record Powerball jackpot has a winner but we have no idea who that person is yet.
May 20 (Reuters) - Coach Sabri Lamouchi is determined to build a new-look Ivory Coast side for the next World Cup without Didier Drogba, Kolo Toure and Emmanuel Eboue, the high-profile players who have been the bedrock of the team for almost a decade. The axing of captain Drogba, Toure and Eboue from a 26-man squad named last week to play two World Cup qualifiers next month signals a new direction for Africa's top-ranked side as the inexperienced coach asserts his authority. ...
For most of her 20-year marriage to Steve Jobs, Laurene Powell Jobs was content to be a behind-the-scenes philanthropist.
DUBLIN (AP) — Ryanair reported record profits Monday as Europe's largest budget airline relentlessly expanded its route network across the continent and into North Africa.
Dear American Consumers: Please don t start eating healthfully. Sincerely, the Food Industry
“Can you imagine if things were reversed and somebody did that to the U.S.?"
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — Ron Poirier couldn't escape the feeling that his cancer was somehow a punishment.
LYON, France (Reuters) - A British father living in France has admitted to killing his two children by slitting their throats, blaming a rocky divorce from his wife, prosecutors said on Sunday. Police arrested the 48-year-old unemployed man on Saturday after the bodies of his 5-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son were found at his apartment in a suburb of the eastern city of Lyon. "He offered explanations linked to the children's custody," an official from the Lyon prosecutor's office told Reuters. ...
Become a fan of our G+ page for the most intriguing stories of the day. More »
plus.google.comThe official account of Yahoo! News. 100% feed-free tweets by news fans for news fans! More »
twitter.com