The deaths of five firefighters during the New Year holiday in Northeast China have raised questions among the public about the level of professionalism among the country's firefighters.
At least five people died and several remained unaccounted for in a fire that happened near a university in U.S. state of Maine on Saturday, U.S. media reported.
Britain's highest honor for architecture, the Royal Institute for British Architecture (Riba)' s Stirling Prize was awarded Thursday to Britain's newest theatre, Liverpool's newly rebuilt Everyman.
Singapore launched 3rd Green Building Masterplan SINGAPORE, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Singapore has launched its third Green Building masterplan, aiming to create a high-quality living environment that has a positive impact on its citizen's health and well-being, said National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan on Monday.
A government building was partially damaged in a blast Wednesday close to line-of-control (LoC) in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said.
Hundreds of pro-Russian protesters stormed and occupied a regional television station building in Ukraine's eastern city of Donetsk Sunday afternoon, the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported.
Students and members of the public stormed into the building of Taiwan's administrative authority on Sunday evening in protest about a cross-Strait service pact.
The greenest building of Australian Capital Territory has been unveiled at the Australian National University (ANU), a latest statement from the ANU said on Wednesday.
The building that was the site of the worst mass shooting at a military installation in U.S. history was demolished Tuesday four years after the rampage, local media reported.
A powerful blast hit a security building in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura early Tuesday, killing at least eight people and injuring 85 others, semi-official Ahramonline reported.
At least two staffers and four suicide bombers were killed Monday in an attack against the office of Iraq's Salahudin satellite channel and the nearby Iraqia official television's office in the northern Salahudin province, a provincial police source told Xinhua.
A high-rise building that was ablaze for over 11 hours in downtown Guangzhou no casualties have been reported so far. Some 20 people, including workers inside the building and nearby residents, have been relocated, according to the municipal firefighting department
A fire broke out late Tuesday evening in a building of the largest maternity hospital in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said.
At least 12 people, including women and children, are confirmed dead in the twin building collapse in the western Indian state of Gujarat in the wee hours of Wednesday, a senior police official said.
The remaining two hostages were freed in the town hall of the southern German city of Ingolstadt as police raided the building after hours of standoff on Monday.
Home building activity in New Zealand surged by 12 percent in the quarter to the end of March, the highest rate in more than a decade, bringing activity back to pre-Global Financial Crisis levels, the government statistics agency announced Wednesday.
Home building activity in New Zealand surged by 12 percent in the quarter to the end of March, the highest rate in more than a decade, bringing activity back to pre-Global Financial Crisis levels.
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