Associated Press
| Apr 30, 2013
A huge explosion in central Damascus at the former Interior Ministry building has killed at least 13 people and injured 70, Syrian TV is reporting. The blast occurred a day after seven were killed by a car bomb targeting the convey transporting Sy...
Associated Press
| Apr 23, 2013
A powerful car bomb was used to attack the French embassy in Tripoli, Libya on Tuesday. At least two French guards were injured.
Democracy Now!
| Apr 18, 2013
The West Fertilizer Plant was fined in 2006 for failing to have a risk management plan but understaffed safety regulators hadn't visited it for five years before this week's deadly blast. Democracy Now! takes a look at some troubling workplace saf...
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| Apr 18, 2013
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation has released surveillance video of the two suspects it has identified related to Monday's Boston Marathon bombing. Both suspects can be seen wearing backpacks in this video. The timestamp on the bo...
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| Apr 18, 2013
Dallas-based reporter David Schechter looks at some of the homes destroyed by last night's fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas. This home, nearly half a mile from the blast site, was completely obliterated. Early reports say that as many as ...
Associated Press
| Apr 18, 2013
Rescue crews in West, Texas are still searching for survivors and victims of the fertilizer plant explosion that authorities estimate killed up to 15 people and injured at least 150 more.
Associated Press
| Apr 18, 2013
The fertilizer explosion that decimated the town of West, Texas was caught on camera by a witness who was recording the plant fire on his cell phone from a nearby school. The force of the blast threw him to the ground.
ITN News
| Apr 17, 2013
Hundreds of people have been injured and authorities fear dozens have been killed by a gigantic explosion at a fertilizer plant north of Waco. The mayor of West, Texas, where the blast leveled many buildings, likened the explosion to a nuclear bomb.
Associated Press
| Apr 17, 2013
Emergency crews from around Texas have rushed to the scene of a massive fertilizer plant explosion north of Waco. The blast, which destroyed the plant and nearby buildings killed an unknown number of people and injured many more, authorities say.
CNN
| Apr 16, 2013
Three people were killed when two bombs exploded near the finishing line of the Boston marathon. More than 170 others, aged 2 to 71, are recovering from the physical wounds of these horrifying blasts.
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...to developments we cannot control. But when it comes to a ticking bomb located five minutes form Kfar Saba and 10 minutes from Jerusalem, when s...
— Mar 25 at 02:40 pm
...that if his party was elected a third time, he would build a motorway from Lahore to Karachi, Pakistan's business capital on the Arabian Sea. "I...
An explosion is a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of gases. Supersonic explosions created by high explosives are known as detonations and travel via supersonic shock waves. Subsonic explosions are created by low explosives through a slower burning process known as deflagration.
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