TEHRAN, Iran—Rescuers dug through debris Tuesday of a building collapse in southwestern Iran that killed at least 11 people, fearful that many more could still be trapped beneath the rubble as authorities arrested the city’s mayor in a widening probe of the disaster. The collapse Monday of an under-construction 10-story tower at the Metropol Building…
5 Dead, Scores Trapped After Building Collapses in Iran: State TV
DUBAI—Five people were killed when a 10-storey building in Iran’s southern city of Abadan partly collapsed and rescuers were trying to help at least 80 people left trapped under the rubble, Iranian state TV reported on Monday. The semi-official Mehr news agency identified the building as a residential-commercial property on Amir Kabir street in the…
Ask the Builder: Building a Stone Wall and Arch
My grandfather was a baker in Cincinnati in the very early 1900s. He and my grandmother owned and operated a neighborhood bakery in the Clifton Heights neighborhood, just 400 feet from where I was born. When he retired, he decided to build an eight-unit apartment building just down the street from the bakery. He named…
At Least 6 Die as Ivory Coast Apartment Block Collapses
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast—At least six people, including two children, died when an apartment block collapsed in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital of Abidjan overnight, the fire brigade said on Monday. Rescuers used torches to search through the mounds of broken concrete and carried out 36 people alive, officials said. One firefighter cradled a baby in the…
Sliding Bad Habits Into Good Ones
When you identify hidden habits, you can also trace them back to their needs and desires, and then you can devise more deliberate ways to satisfy those desires. It’s likely you have some habits you may identify as bad or problematic, but they’re actually serving you well. Think of a bad habit as a good…
Fire in Residential Building Kills 6, Injures 15 in Mumbai
NEW DELHI—A major fire in a 19-story residential building killed at least six people and injured 15 others on Saturday in Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital, officials said. The fire was caused by a short-circuit in an air conditioner in one of the apartments, Mumbai Mayor Kishori Pednekar said. Residents said the fire started…
Blast Levels French Building; at Least 1 Dead, Baby Found
PARIS—French rescue workers dug out the body of a man but rescued his baby and the child’s mother alive from the rubble of a three-story apartment building that collapsed Tuesday in a suspected gas explosion on southern France’s Mediterranean coast. Two other people are missing. The baby, around 10 months old, was located by sniffer…
Rescuers Search for Survivors After 10 Killed in Lagos Building Collapse
LAGOS—Rescuers on Tuesday dug through rubble searching for survivors a day after a luxurious high-rise building collapsed while under construction in Nigeria’s commercial capital Lagos, as officials put the death toll at 10 and scores were reported missing. Emergency services used earth moving equipment to lift chunks of masonry at the site in the affluent…
2 Die When Man Jumps Off Building, Lands on Another Man
YONKERS, N.Y.—A distraught man jumped off the roof of a New York apartment building and landed on another man 12 stories below, killing both of them, police said. A 25-year-old man jumped from an apartment building in Yonkers on Monday evening, Yonkers police said. He landed on the roof of a concrete parking garage and…
Ukrainian Police Detain Man Who Threatened to Detonate Grenade in Government Building
KYIV—Kyiv police detained a man who forced his way into Ukraine’s main government building on Wednesday morning and threatened to detonate a grenade, head of the National Police Ihor Klymenko said. “We were able to get out of this situation, neutralize this criminal,” Klymenko told a briefing. He said the man, whose demands were unclear,…
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