A rescuer at the site of an explosion that killed 26 people and injured 61 in Hunans Liuyang city has described the dangerous and extremely difficult clean-up mission amid gunpowder and sparks after he and others were wounded by secondary blasts on Tuesday morning. An excavator operator surnamed Xiao, who volunteered to aid rescue work at the site of the ...

Across much of India, an energy crunch caused by the Iran war has prompted long queues for cooking gas cylinders. That is not a problem for Gauri Devi. On a stove with blue flames, she flips a chapatti flatbread, burning biogas produced from cow dung an alternative fuel helping ease pressure on supplies. It cooks everything, the 25-year-old said in her ...

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Iran's economy may be teetering on the brink of collapse, but does that really threaten its regime? Monday's flare-up of hostilities across the Strait of Hormuz makes clear that oil's not about to start flowing freely again. Tehran and Washington are both signalling they can bear the pain of lost revenue and inflation, with Iran arguably taking that ...

The United States is closing its consulate general in Peshawar due to safety concerns for diplomatic staff and resource allocation. While the physical presence is reduced, the US will maintain engagement with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through its embassy in Islamabad. This decision follows a wave of unrest in Pakistan.

Russia announced a ceasefire for May 8 to 9 to coincide with commemorations of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two and a military parade in Moscow's Red Square.

Dear Abby advises a man who is conflicted trying to get back in touch with a previous partner while dealing with the emotional and physical stress of caring for his ailing wife.

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A HUGE fire in a shopping centre has killed at least eight people and injured 40 in Iran. The blaze erupted in the Arghavan shopping centre in Andisheh town in Tehran. Terrifying footage shows firefighters battling flames that engulfed the multistory building. Thick plumes of black smoke can be seen rising from the scene as...

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The presiding judge of former first lady Kim Keon Hee's appeals trial on corruption charges was found dead outside a Seoul court early Wednesday, officials said.

On May 6, 1935, in the depths of the Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the Works Progress Administration to provide work for the unemployed.

Actor Sadie Sandler turns 20 and actor Sasheer Zamata turns 40, among the famous birthdays for May 6.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has revealed plans to lay off about 14 percent of its workforce, with CEO Brian Armstrong citing market volatility and the accelerating impact of artificial intelligence on company operations. The post Coinbase Lays Off 14% of Employees in AI Transformation appeared first on Breitbart.

Microsoft spent years telling regulators it was just an investor in OpenAI, but a federal judge has now cleared the way for a jury to decide whether the company was secretly running the show and whether its own executives knew the arrangement was unlawful before the first dollar ever moved. The post Jury in Blockbuster Trial Between Elon Musk and Sam ...

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A 26-year-old man was sentenced to 15 years to life for the pickaxe murder of his half-brother, who had cerebral palsy and used a wheelchair.

A teenager shot dead two staff members and left multiple others injured at a school in northeast Brazil, with panicked students trying to escape over a wall

In theory, the U.K. should be less exposed to the impact of higher energy prices than some peers. In practice, the price surge is having a dire impact.

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Asked to pinpoint Tuesday night why he wasn't getting to the free throw line during the playoffs as much as he was during the regular season, Cavaliers star Donovan Mitchell offered up, "I don't flop, maybe that's why."

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His mother was baking a birthday cake for a friend when the 14-month old got his hands on a common cake ingredient that last left him in an induced coma, unable to breathe on his own