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Once every turn around the sun, inhabitants of our battered blue globe gather by the thousands in an assigned place, for a two-week ritual of despair and hope called a climate conference.
A basketball-sized chunk of ice crashed through the roof of a family's Colorado home after apparently falling from an airplane passing overhead. Danelle Hagan and her 9-year-old daughter were at home in Brush on Saturday when they heard the kitchen ceiling come crashing down. They were not injured.
A young pit bull mix that survived being thrown off the sixth-floor roof of a Brooklyn building still was not fit to live because of her aggressive behavior, her caretakers said, and she was euthanized Friday, despite pleas from animal activists to spare her life.
A Bolivian university director is in police custody after five bodies were discovered decomposing on the roof of a building his school shares with a movie theater, police said Wednesday.
A New York City man has been accused of throwing his dog from the roof of a six-floor city housing project, critically injuring the animal.
Rhythmic clapping rang out on Centre Court, accompanied by not-so-staid chants of "Roof! Roof! Roof!"
ESPN Classic will air live coverage of the May 17 exhibition matches under Wimbledon's new Centre Court roof.
A sweeping, wave-shaped roof has begun to be lifted into place on the Olympic aquatics center that will be used for the 2012 London Games.
Break out the sunscreen and come hungry for a hot dog or two.
It may have looked like Christmas outside, but Ward Nostdahl says it wasn't reindeer he heard clomping on his roof. Nostdahl called police to report a moose on the roof of his hillside home northwest of Minot.
Minot police say they get lots of calls about animals but this one was different. A caller reported a dog on the roof of a house. Animal control officer Dick Schnell said the snow in the back yard of the dog's owner's home apparently was high enough for the dog to walk up onto the roof Tuesday.
One person is slightly injured in eastern Washington after a supermarket roof collapsed under heavy snow.
A man called police on Wednesday night after he came home from work and spotted an intoxicated woman drinking a beer on the roof of his home. The 28-year-old woman was taken into custody after she refused to get down and leave. The police report said the woman agreed to leave only if the man agreed to give her more beer.
A woman was slightly injured on Wednesday after a six-pound chunk of ice fell from the sky through her roof as she slept. The source of the ice wasn't immediately known, but experts said it might have fallen from an airplane or rocket.
After nearly 25 years aloft, the RCA Dome's roof will be coming down.
The European Parliament says that part of the roof of its Strasbourg chamber has collapsed.
The McHenrys are quite accustomed to strangers knocking on the door of their Putnam County home. Commuters, truck drivers, even delivery people will frequently show up on their doorstep and ask to sneak a peek inside.
A mother bear and her young cub stopped traffic and caused panic Thursday in central Romania after they roamed through gardens in search of food and finally climbed the stairs of a 4-story building and broke onto the roof. A rescue team tranquilized the mother after failing to steer her toward a nearby forest, officials said.
The snow-covered roof of a food warehouse in Canada caved in on Wednesday, killing three women who were crushed below the weight of debris.
Vern Potter's whereabouts had been unknown since Concord police issued an arrest warrant for him in January. Then a police lieutenant happened to spot a page-one photo of Potter in Tuesday's New Hampshire Union Leader, shoveling snow off the roof of Andover Elementary School.
Sci-fi movies and cars don’t often share connections, but there’s a striking similarity between DreamWorks Animation’s Transformers — a movie that raked in $700 million worldwide in 2007 — and Chrysler’s Jeep Wrangler Unlimited.
After 21 years of marriage, Pedro Llera and his wife Maura decided to call it quits.
Duke fired Ted Roof on Monday, two days after the Blue Devils concluded a 1-11 season with their ninth straight loss. "No excuses, no whatever," Roof said. "It all falls in my lap."
Bill Clinton likes to brag about his presidential library being an eco-friendly building.
Crane smashes Through Santa Rosa, California House: Video of Scene"A crane . . . toppled backward and sliced a Santa Rosa home nearly in half" on November 16, 2009.
Family's "Miracle" Escape as Car Lands on RoofA family survived when a car "landed upside down inside the roof of their single storey house early Sunday morning," October 18, 2009.
Color-Changing Roof Tiles Absorb Heat in Winter, Reflect it in SummerA team of recent MIT graduates has developed roof tiles that change color based on the temperature. The tiles become white when it's hot, allowing them to reflect away most of the sun's heat. When it's cold they turn black and absorb heat just when it's needed. More Articles
Officials say inmate escaped from jail hospital by tying blankets together The man who broke out of a Galveston prison hospital is apparently still on the loose.
Skydiver survives 10,000ft fall to the groundPaul Lewis, 40, jumped from a plane and plummeted through the air before crashing on to the roof of a hangar at Tilstock Airfield in Whitchurch, Shropshire.
Church roof collapse kills priest A Romanian-Orthodox priest and another man have died after a church roof collapsed, Berlin police reported on Wednesday.
Baby-dropping ritual draws criticism from India activistsRights activists lashed out at local officials who allowed hundreds of infants to be dropped from the roof of a mosque in western India in the belief that the fall — which ends when the babies are caught in a bedsheet — would ensure good health and prosperity for their famili …
Supermarket collapses 20 minutes after closing Customers and employees at a supermarket in Falkensee near Berlin barely avoided a catastrophe when the roof collapsed just 20 minutes after closing time, police said on Wednesday.
Thirteen children injured after roof collapses during exam at Kent schoolThirteen school children have been injured, four of them seriously, after a roof collapsed in a sports hall at a school in Kent as they were sitting exams.
Cowboys scouting assistant injured in structure collapse paralyzedDallas Cowboys assistant scout Rich Behm is permanently paralyzed from the waist down, the team announced Sunday, the most serious injury resulting from the roof collapse Saturday of the team's 80-foot-high, tent-like practice facility in Irving, Texas.
Dallas Cowboys Coach, Others Injured in Roof CollapseFrom the Dallas Morning News' "Cowboys Blog," more updated coverage...
School prank: kids put school furniture on school roofPupils at a school in the US broke into their portable classrooms and placed their chairs and tables on the roof.
Tree traps man in bed (Video)Two teenagers were injured Tuesday afternoon after a tree fell through the roof of their Polk County home. One of the men was pinned in the bed in which he was lying when the 40,000-pound tree came crashing down through the house's second floor.
: Ohio police: Burglar drilled hole in pharmacy roofPolice in northeast Ohio said a man who cut a hole in a ceiling and lowered himself into a pharmacy with a television cable foiled his plan to steal drugs when he unknowingly set off a motion detector.
Is White the New Green?Three California energy experts make a convincing — and sincere — case that painting roofs white in the hot parts of the planet could offset the greenhouse gas woes caused by the world's cars
Teenager paints 60ft phallus on roof of family homeA teenager got away with painting a 60ft phallus on the roof of his parents' home for a year before his parents found out.
Student, Rory McInnes did some DIY at the family home — painting a 60ft WILLY on the roof (Photos)Excerpt: Parents Andy and Clare were delighted when builders finished a new flat roof on their £1million house.
Would be suicide gets damages billA man who tried to kill himself by jumping off the 21st floor of a Rotterdam block of flats has been sent a bill for damaging the roof of the restaurant downstairs
Boy, 3, speared through torso with 3-foot iron rod, liver injured (With Photo)Excerpt: THREE-YEAR-OLD Mehul Kumar is lucky to be alive after being speared through the torso with a 3-foot (1 metre) iron rod. The boy, from Jharkand, India, was rushed to the hospital after he impaled himself falling off a terrace and onto a rod last week.
Strong Winds Throw Bus Into Ind. BuildingStorm winds have tossed a school bus onto a building, destroyed or damaged dozens of homes, and cut off power to thousands of customers in Indiana and Illinois.
UFO chunk crashes into Dallas HomeA 6 pound chunk of junk fell from the sky and crashed through the roof and the upper floor of a home in Dallas.
Clever Dog Uses Snow Bank to Climb up on RoofPolice get lots of calls about animals, but this one was different. A caller reported a dog was on top of the roof of a house.
Good samaritan has roof cut off car after giving refuge to injured driver A motorist who allowed a driver hurt in an accident to take refuge in his car after a crash had to endure the sight of firefighters cutting off his roof to remove the injured man.
British long jumper Jonathan Moore leaps naked from roof A British long jumper escaped serious injury after leaping naked from the roof of a house in Potchefstroom, South Africa.
Thieves enter store through its roofThieves who drilled a safe at Walgreen Drug Store in Wagoner before 3 a.m. Friday went in through the roof to take money and do damage that totaled $29,000.
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