A massive avalanche plowed into an Indian army training center at a ski resort town in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday, killing 17 soldiers and critically injuring 17 others. BREAKING NEWS Ukrainian Election Ends with Tymoshenko's Defeat Yulia Tymoshenko In and Out Politics More...

The avalanche slammed into the army's High Altitude Warfare School at about 11 a.m. and swept away the soldiers during a training session, said army spokesman Col. Vineet Sood. It was the worst avalanche in the area in many years, he said, ...

A speeding car crashed through the entrance of a casino and into a bank of slot machines Wednesday in the southern Nevada resort town of Laughlin, killing two patrons and injuring at least eight other people, authorities said. BREAKING NEWS Israel Uses White Phosphorus in Combat Action Tasteless and Shameless More...

The 70-year-old driver told investigators he fainted while driving toward the Edgewater Hotel & Casino on the Colorado River waterfront, Las Vegas police Officer Jacinto Rivera said, according to the Associated P...

Iraqi police say three blasts have struck near three hotels in downtown Baghdad, killing at least 11 people. The officials say the blasts wounded at least 20 people. BREAKING NEWS US Health Care Reform is Dead Imperfect Models More...

The first blast struck at about 3:40 p.m. near the Sheraton Hotel along Abu Nawas Street, just across the Tigris River from the Green Zone.

The officials say two others struck near the Babylon Hotel and al-Hamra Hotel, which is popular with Western journalists, The Associated Press reports.

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An Ethiopian Airlines plane with 90 passengers on board crashed just after taking off from Beirut International Airport.

Lebanese officials say the plane crashed into the Mediterranean during stormy weather. An early report from the Guardian stated that officials said 85 people were on board. Voice of America reported 90 "passengers". Aljazeera reported 83 passengers and up to seven crew. BREAKING NEWS US Health Care Reform is Dead Imperfect Models More...

The plane was a Boeing 737 traveling from Beirut to Addis Ababa, ...

Simetimes life shows more thrilling things than can be seen in horror films. A shark described as "dinosaur huge" killed a tourist only a few yards off the shore of a popular Cape Town beach in South Africa. BREAKING NEWS Europe in the middle of political and social crisis World's Biggest Stars in Their Past and Present More...

Lloyd Skinner, a 37-year-old engineer and marathon runner from Zimbabwe, was neck deep in water when a large shark - believed to be a Great White - attacked twice and pulled him under, leaving behind...

After a Nigerian linked to radicals in Yemen allegedly tried to blow up a plane, President Barack Obama said human and systemic failures created a "potential catastrophic breach of security." BREAKING NEWS The Year 2010 - The Year of Great Consequences Rescuers Save 43 of 125 Pilot Whales Stranded in New Zealand More...

The information gathered by the intelligence community on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, including warnings to U.S. officials from his father, should have been enough to get him on a no-fly list, Obama said.

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U.S. authorities dismissed leads that might have brought alleged Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab under further scrutiny.

The State Department forwarded Mr. Abdulmutallab's name to a basic U.S. terrorist watch list earlier this month, but didn't revoke his visa after Mr. Abdulmutallab's father alerted U.S. officials to his s...

In the wake of opposition protests Iranian s ecurity forces have arrested a number of prominent critics of the government.

Ebrahim Yazdi, who served as foreign minister in the early months of Iran's 1979 revolution, and Emadeddin Baghi, a human rights campaigner and journalist, were arrested on Monday, according to the pro-opposition Rahesabz website. BREAKING NEWS Vatican To Establish Copyright on Pope Animal Heterochromia More...

There were also reports that two aides to Mohammad Khatami, a former reformist president, and three ...

A bus carrying passengers home for Christmas plunged 80 meters into a ravine in Peru's southern Andes today, killing 42 passengers and injuring at least eight, authorities said. BREAKING NEWS Vatican To Establish Copyright on Pope Vogue's Most Stylish Women in 2009 More...

More than 50 people were aboard when the bus travelling between the town of Arequipa and the town of Santo Tomas, veered off the road and tumbled 200 meters down a mountainside, police said.

The accident happened shortly after daybreak Friday on a stretch of mou...

An American Airlines Boeing 737 overshot the runway while landing in driving rain at the international airport in Kingston, Jamaica on Tuesday night, but the company said there were no fatalities or serious injuries. BREAKING NEWS Georgia Desecrates Memory of Its Own War Heroes Moscow paralyzed in heavy snowfall More...

The Jamaica Observer newspaper reported 40 injured passengers but did not give details about their condition. CNN said four of the passengers were in serious condition.

"The injured passengers have been taken ...

A 33-foot Coast Guard vessel and a pleasure boat collided as a Christmas watercraft parade was going on in San Diego Bay, killing an 8-year-old boy and seriously injuring five people, authorities said. BREAKING NEWS US unmanned aicraft program hacked! Moscow paralyzed in heavy snowfall More...

There were no other injuries among the 13 people aboard the 24-foot pleasure boat in the 6 p.m. accident Sunday, Coast Guard spokeswoman Jetta Disco said. None of the five people aboard the Coast Guard patrol boat was hurt.

The injured were ...

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will probably hospital Wednesday, his personal doctor told Italy's ANSA news agency Tuesday. That will be three days after he was attacked in the face at a public rally in Milan, his personal doctor told Italy's ANSA news agency Tuesday. BREAKING NEWS Europe in the middle of political and social crisis Stunning pencil drawings of Hollywood stars More...

Berlusconi, 73, should refrain from public activities for two weeks after his release, Alberto Zangrillo said.

The prime minister suffered ...

A 98-year-old woman was indicted Friday on a second-degree murder charge that alleges she strangled her 100-year-old nursing home roommate after making the victim's life "a living hell" because she thought the woman was "taking over the room." BREAKING NEWS North Korea will never give up its nuclear program Russian athletes show sports outfits for Winter Olympics 2010 More...

Laura Lundquist was sent to a state mental hospital for a competency evaluation before her arraignment. Her defense attorney, Carl Levin, sa...