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woman suffered severe burns and three children were seriously injured when a portable gas barbecue exploded, emergency services said. The children, aged between six and 11, sustained 15 to 20 per cent burns to their upper limbs and a woman in her 40s suffered severe burns to her airway. Another three adults were taken to hospital to be treated for minor injuries during the day out at a public playing field. The explosion happened around 4.30pm at a park on Ashcroft Road, behind Stopsley Fire Station in Luton, Bedfordshire. Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said a group of around 20...

Iranian Revolutionary Guards and riot police clubbed and arrested dozens of demonstrators on Tuesday as renewed protests continued to sweep the country, nearly two months after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared he had won re-election. Opponents charge that the results were rigged. CNN disclosed a video on Tuesday that clearly shows police forces and a security official, dressed in a suit, shooting towards protestors. Other footage shows the protestors being viciously clubbed. The date of the video is not known.

CARACAS, Venezuela – The chief of a leading Venezuelan opposition party says a grenade has exploded outside its Caracas headquarters. Democratic Action leader Henry Ramos says the blast shattered windows and damaged the facade of the party offices late Saturday. No one was hurt.

BOONEVILLE, Ark. - A meat packing plant exploded Sunday afternoon, injuring an unknown number of people and forcing homes to be evacuated because ammonia gas leaked into the air, state officials said. Flames poured out of the Cargill Meat Solutions plant just after 2 p.m., witnesses said. It wasn't immediately known how many homes were evacuated in the western Arkansas town of 4,000, emergency management spokeswoman Renee Preslar said. A hazardous materials team from Sebastian County was heading to Booneville, Preslar said Meredith Voges, 22, of Connecticut, said she heard the explosion while staying at a hotel just behind the...

WASHINGTON - The explosion of a star halfway across the universe was so huge it set a record for the most distant object that could be seen on Earth by the naked eye. The aging star, in a previously unknown galaxy, exploded in a gamma ray burst 7.5 billion light years away, its light finally reaching Earth early Wednesday. The gamma rays were detected by NASA's Swift satellite at 2:12 a.m. "We'd never seen one before so bright and at such a distance," NASA's Neil Gehrels said. It was bright enough to be seen with the naked eye. However, NASA...

WASHINGTON, March 12, 2008 – A car bomb exploded at a “Sons of Iraq” headquarters building in Duluyiah, Iraq, yesterday, killing seven Iraqis and injuring 11 others. A member of the local security group fired at the driver of the explosive-loaded pick-up truck, but the driver was able to detonate the bomb. Elsewhere in Iraq yesterday, U.S. Special Forces soldiers in Kut destroyed a vehicle transporting weapons and explosives. Iraqi security forces were patrolling in the city and attacked. They requested assistance from a nearby U.S. Special Forces unit. Several enemy fighters were killed, and two vehicles carrying machine guns...

Bomb Explodes in Southeastern Iran Saturday February 17, 2007 12:01 AM By ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press Writer TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Police and insurgents clashed after a bombing in southeastern Iran late Friday near the site where an explosion killed 11 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards this week, Iranian news agencies reported. ``Minutes ago, the sound of a bomb explosion was heard in one of Zahedan's streets,'' the state-run news agency IRNA said, without giving more details. The semiofficial Fars news agency said clashes broke out between Iranian police and armed insurgents after the explosion. Fars quoted the...

A Ventura educator remained hospitalized Tuesday after a decades' old round of military ammunition he used as a paperweight exploded in his classroom, authorities said. Robert Colla, an instructor at the Ventura Adult Education Center for five years, suffered severe damage to his right hand when the device detonated Monday afternoon. None of the more than 20 students in his computer drawing class was injured, officials said. Co-workers said Colla found the large piece of ammo — believed to be a 40-millimeter round — when he was a child and thought it was harmless. It was a regular fixture in...

DULUTH -- A Duluth hockey arena was destroyed and at least two people suffered minor injuries Sunday night after a Zamboni ice-resurfacing machine exploded during a broomball game, starting a major fire and sending players and spectators fleeing. "It looked like the Zamboni doors flew off onto the ice," a player told KDLH-TV in Duluth, referring to the doors of the enclosure in which the Zamboni sat while waiting to go on to the ice. The explosion happened about 9:40 p.m. at Peterson Arena, 3501 Grand Av. in west Duluth. The witness said the explosion started ceiling insulation on fire,...

Clinton book mania explodes on the Web By John Borland CNET News.com June 22, 2004, 3:13 PM PT Just hours after former U.S. president Bill Clinton finished a first round of book-signings for his new memoir, published Tuesday, autographed copies were selling on eBay for $250 and more. Some of those copies hadn't even been signed yet. One St. Paul, Minn., seller named Jason Gabbert, an eBay regular and longtime Clinton fan, promised that his family and he had tickets to next week's Los Angeles book signing and were guaranteed a few autographed copies to sell. "It's amazing the effect...

Blood and guts of 17-meter long 50-ton mammal splatter sidewalks, automobiles parked nearby "The animal was close to death when someone found it beached on shore on Saturday... Because of the natural decomposing process, a lot of gases accumulated, and when the pressure buildup was too great, the whale's belly just exploded and spilled blood and the innards on the street," Wang said.

Sunday, 17 November, 2002, 16:07 GMTTanker explodes off China Reports from Beijing say that one oil tanker exploded and another was heavily damaged in a fire in southern China. Details are sketchy but reports say that the blaze occurred near an oil depot in Qingliu, a village in the southern province of Guangdong, near Hong Kong. Local reports say that more than 50 fire engines, five firefighting boats and two helicopters assisted in tackling the blaze. Three people were reported injured. The tanker which exploded was carrying more than 100 tons of oil. It ignited more than 400 tons of...

<p>SAN`A, Yemen (AP) --  A Yemeni man died when a bomb he was carrying exploded in a crowded market on Friday, injuring two bystanders, police said.</p> <p>Police said it was difficult to identify the man because his body was blown to pieces. It was not immediately clear if the bomb exploded prematurely. The blast occurred in a market in Yemen's capital, San`a.</p>