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Heavy rain hits the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, flooding the sprawling tent camps where hundreds of thousands of people live and triggering an "immediate humanitarian emergency".

At least eight people died after a three-storey residential building adjacent to a construction site collapsed in New York City , officials said on Thursday as rescue crews searched the rubble for survivors. About 250 first responders were sent to the site after the building came down in Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon, sending bricks and wood into an excava

Two people are dead and several others injured as rescuers scour the debris in Brooklyn.

Several people were killed and more than a dozen were injured Wednesday when a building collapsed in New York City. Fire officials said many others had been pulled from the rubble in a major rescue operation. Lilia Luciano reports from the scene.

NEW YORK (AP) — Firefighters dug through the rubble of a three-story building in Brooklyn after it collapsed at the edge of a construction site Wednesday afternoon, killing at least two people and trapping others beneath the wreckage.

Palestinians in Gaza have made wind turbines to generate electricity, using scraps found in the rubble.

The brick was found at Tavsanli Hoyuk, an archaeological site in western Turkey. Humans and dogs in this region have had a close relationship for thousands of years

GEORGE TOWN, Oct 25 — The body of a man buried in a landslide at a two-storey semi-detached house in Taman Seri Ra...

Health workers in Gaza are participating in a breast cancer campaign called ‘pink blooms from among the rubble’.

Hundreds of Palestinians attended a funeral Sunday for 75 people, including women and children, whose remains were recently recovered from beneath the rubble of Gaza City homes des...