German train drivers have gone on strike over pay. Freight drivers began a 62 hour strike at 1100 GMT, and are expected to be joined by passenger train drivers at 0100 GMT on Thursday. Drivers’ union GDL is demanding a 31% pay rise, but the national rail operator Deutsche Bahn is not prepared to improve [...]
(CBS/AP) Thousands more residents were ordered to evacuate their homes Tuesday, bringing the number of people chased away by the wind-whipped flames that have engulfed Southern California to at least 300,000. As flames continued to light up the sky, most of these evacuees have no choice but to wait out what may be the worst [...]
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — In an effort to bring prostitutes into the legal economy, officials said Monday that Hungary will allow sex workers to apply for an entrepreneur’s permit — a move that could generate government revenues from an industry worth an estimated $1 billion annually. Human rights groups often have criticized European Union member [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A group representing thousands of taxi drivers said last week it will idle cabs in September if the city goes ahead with a plan to require installation of GPS tracking systems. Starting October 1, as the city’s 13,000 taxis come up for inspections they must have the GPS equipment along with [...]
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) — Seven years ago, police in North Carolina covered shooting victim Marcelo Cruz with a tarp, believing he was dead. He wasn’t. Cruz survived the street fight shooting, but was left paralyzed from the waist down. The Mexican native rebuilt his life, and at 26, was living in Minneapolis, driving a specially [...]
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota (CNN) — The search for bodies in the Mississippi River was painstakingly slow as divers navigated debris and coped with low visibility after Wednesday’s deadly bridge collapse, officials said. About 15 divers from local counties did a bank-to-bank search Thursday afternoon and found 11 vehicles, including an 18-wheeler, said Lynn Schwartz, Communication Specialist [...]
A key road bridge over the Mississippi river in the US state of Minnesota has collapsed in the evening rush hour killing at least seven people. At least 60 were injured when part of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis gave way at 1805 (2305 GMT) on Wednesday. As the structure buckled, up to 50 vehicles [...]
A bridge collapse in Minnesota at peak rush hour Wednesday sent vehicles and debris tumbling into the Mississippi River, killing at least seven people, injuring more than 60 and leaving a dramatic pile of rubble linking the Twin Cities. The Department of Homeland Security quickly announced that there was no “terrorism nexus,” and that the [...]
An interstate bridge jammed with rush-hour traffic suddenly broke into huge sections and collapsed into the Mississippi River Wednesday, pitching dozens of cars 60 feet into the water and killing at least seven people. The eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, was in the midst of being repaired and two lanes in each [...]
Recovery workers were to begin searching at dawn Thursday for victims missing in a massive bridge collapse that killed at least seven people and sent dozens of vehicles plunging into the Mississippi River. The accident occurred during rush hour Wednesday, shortly after 6 p.m. (7 p.m. ET) when dozens of cars were on the bridge. [...]
