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Cirque du Soleil performer killed in Las Vegas show
The performer, 31-year-old Sarah Guillot-Guyard, was pronounced dead shortly before midnight Saturday, the Clark County, Nevada, medical examiner's office told CNN. The cause of death had not been determined Sunday afternoon.
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Earthquake-proof table uses geometry to save lives
Two Israeli inventors have built a revolutionary earthquake-proof table -- an invention that could save the lives of school children around the world.
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Canadian train disaster
At least five people were killed and "many more" deaths are expected in a small Canadian town devastated by an exploding runaway train, local police said.
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Collapse of the Deepwater Horizon
For more info just google it and go to the wikipedia page.
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Deaths of two families in plane crash shock South Carolina town
The stunning news has been spreading through the city of Greenville, South Carolina, shaking residents in a way they hadn't felt in recent memory.
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Energy production causes big US earthquakes
Natural-gas extraction, geothermal-energy production and other activities that inject fluid underground have caused numerous earthquakes in the United States, scientists report today.
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At least 6 dead in train derailment in France
At least seven people were killed and tens of others were injured Friday when a train derailed in Bretigny sur Orge, the French interior minister says.
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When space weather attacks!
Power outages. Disrupted communications. Diverted airplanes. How business is coping with big risks from outer space.
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25 Years After Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Company Still Hasn’t Paid For Long-Term Environmental Damages
The long-term plan for rehabilitating damaged resources has yet to be implemented a full quarter century after the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, spewing more than 11 million gallons of crude oil into the surrounding ecosystem.
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Indian principal on the run after 22 students die from school lunches
At least 22 children have died after eating eating free school lunches in Bihar state in northeastern India
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SF plane crash victim was alive when she was hit, sources say
The 16-year-old girl who was run over by a vehicle after the crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was alive when she was hit, two sources close to the investigation into her death told The Chronicle on Thursday night. San Mateo County coroner's investigators determined that Ye Meng Yuan died of blunt force trauma as a result of being hit by a vehicle, said the sources, who spoke on condition they not be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the case...
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Asiana Airline passenger was alive until killed by rescue vehicle
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 passenger Ye Mengyan died of injuries she received from being run over by a vehicle, and she was alive when she was hit, coroner said.
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Train derails in Spain, killing 80
A high-speed passenger train derailed as it hurtled around a curve in northwestern Spain on Wednesday, killing nearly 60 people and injuring more than 100.
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New Video Shows Chaos Inside Southwest Plane After Nose Gear Collapses
New video has surfaced from inside the Southwest 737 airplane the moment the nose gear collapsed on landing into LaGuardia Airport Monday.
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Weather cost the world $85 billion so far this year. Only 1/4 of that was insured
Wild weather has already taken an $85 billion toll on the world so far in 2013. Believe it or not, that's actually a pretty typical sum for the first six months of the year.
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3 dead after bus carrying teens returning to church crashes in Indianapolis.
A bus trip back to an Indianapolis church ended in tragedy Saturday afternoon with bloodied bodies, luggage strewn everywhere and three dead, in addition to at least 19 injured, after the vehicle flipped over.
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Italy coach 'ripped through guard rail' near Avellino.
A coach has "ripped through a guard rail" and plunged off a flyover in southern Italy leaving at least 38 people dead.
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5 dead, including child, in Pa. helicopter crash.
A helicopter crash in a rugged, wooded area of northeastern Pennsylvania claimed the lives of five people, including one child, officials said Sunday. The crash happened Saturday night after the pilot told air traffic controllers he was losing altitude, according to the county coroner.
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8 Injured After 'Humongous' Blasts at Fla. Propane Plant.
At least eight people - four of them critically - were injured after several large propane tanks exploded late Monday night at a gas plant in Tavares, Fla., sending "humongous" flames and smoke into the sky, according to officials.
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Woman on first date plunges to her death off 17th-floor balcony
A 35-year-old woman on a first date plummeted to her death early Thursday morning when she fell from the balcony of her 17th floor New York City apartment.
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