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One man is in custody and Miami International Airport is back open this morning after a suspicious device caused a major evacuation and shutdown Thursday night. The security scare happened just after 9 p.m., when a baggage screener spotted a suspicious item in a checked piece of luggage in the Customs area. -snip- A video of what is believed to be part of the suspicious device showed a silver canister, though police haven't confirmed what was found. Police also haven't released the identity of the man taken into custody, but airport officials said he had been on a flight from...

Click here for video. This terrifying slow motion video shows the destructive power of a tank canister shot, blazing across an entire battlefield. It's so spectacularly crystal-clear that you can easily understand why it is one of the most feared weapons by infantry soldiers. The canister shot is not new, however. This simple and incredibly effective technology has been wreaking havoc in ground fronts since the Napoleonic Wars. Designed to create a destructive cloud to do major damage on a large group of soft bodies, the canister shot has played a central role in ground battles since the 18th century....

FORT KNOX, Ky. (Army News Service, Dec. 5, 2005) -- While the booming sounds of a 120mm tank main gun firing on Cedar Creek Range were familiar, the type of tank round being fired was very unique. The 16th Cavalry Regiment provided a live fire demonstration of the first M1028 canister rounds at Fort Knox, Nov. 10. The canister round is the newest 120mm tank main gun ammunition now available to the Armor Force, and has been deployed in the Middle East. According to Maj. Kevin Parker, the S-3 of the 16th Cav., the purpose of the demonstration was to...

AHMEDABAD, India, Aug 3 (Reuters) - At least 10 people were killed and 35 injured on Sunday when a gas cylinder explosion brought down three residential buildings in western India, police said. Several others were feared trapped under the debris of the flattened buildings in Surat, which accounts for 90 percent of India's diamond exports worth $8 billion a year. "The toll could rise as and when the rubble is cleared," G.A Shaikh, a senior police official, told Reuters by telephone from Surat, which is 250 km (156 miles) south of Ahmedabad, the state's main city. Police said a diamond...

Translation from Hebrew to English by me: Rishon Le Zion: A father and son are injured lightly and moderately from a gas leak explosion in the kitchen of their home.