Month: November 2021

HOUSTON (AP) — Officials in Texas say at least eight people are dead and numerous others are injured following a surge of the crowd during a performance by rapper Travis Scott at the Astroworld music festival Friday night. The Houston fire chief told reporters that the crowd began to compress toward the front of the

NEW DELHI (AP) — Officials in western India say 10 patients have died after a fire broke out in a hospital’s COVID-19 ward. An official told New Delhi Television on Saturday that around 17 patients were in the ward in city of Ahmednagar in Maharashtra state when the fire broke out. The remaining patients have

SYDNEY (AP) — Rescue services in western Australia are searching for a man who was attacked by multiple sharks. Two teenagers on a boat saw what they believed was a shark attack at Port Beach in the suburb of Perth on Saturday morning and alerted other swimmers to get out of the sea and called

By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY Associated Press FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Scores of people are feared dead near Sierra Leone’s capital after an oil tanker exploded at a gas station while large crowds had gathered to collect leaking fuel. Officials said the explosion took place early Saturday after a bus struck the tanker in Wellington, a

HOUSTON (AP) — Officials in Texas say at least eight people are dead and several others injured in a crowd surge at the Astroworld Festival. Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña told reporters a compression of the crowd toward the stage occurred while rapper Travis Scott was performing. The surge happened around 9 p.m. Friday. The

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer The Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the Earth and it’s on the knife edge of survival. Scientists and activists say the ongoing negotiations at the U.N. climate conference may determine the fate of the northern polar region perhaps more than any other part of

HOUSTON (AP) — Officials in Texas say at least eight people are dead and several others have been injured in a crowd surge at the Astroworld Festival. Houston Fire Chief Samuel Pena told reporters the compression of the crowd toward the stage occurred while Travis Scott was performing. The surge happened around 9 p.m. Friday

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the U.N. body investigating the most serious crimes in Myanmar says preliminary evidence collected since the military seized power on Feb. 1 shows a widespread and systematic attack on civilians amounting to crimes against humanity. Nicholas Koumjian told U.N. reporters Friday that

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — In stories published November 3 and 4, 2021, about a visit by a European Parliament delegation to Taiwan, The Associated Press erroneously reported the number of parliamentarians in the delegation. There were seven, not 13.