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Iraqi Minister of Science and Technology Raed Fahmi was injured on Friday in a road accident in Jordan which killed six people including two British women, police said. Police spokesman Mohammed Khatib said 28 other people were injured in the accident on the Dead Sea road to Amman in the Jordan Valley after their tourist bus crashed early on Friday ...

Iraqi Minister of Science and Technology Raed Fahmi was injured on Friday in a road accident in Jordan which killed six people including two Britons, police said. Police spokesman Mohammed Khatib said 28 other people were injured in the accident on the Dead Sea road to Amman in the Jordan Valley after their tourist bus crashed early on Friday. Khatib ...

Authorities say two young men have died and another is in serious condition after becoming trapped inside a grain bin in northwestern Illinois. The Carroll County sheriff's department says 19-year-old Alejandro Pacas and 14-year-old Wyatt Whitebread were pulled from the grain bin after ...

A man injured in a steampipe blast in New York City three years ago has settled his lawsuit against the utility company that maintained the pipe. Gregory McCullough and Consolidated Edison said in court papers Wednesday that they had reached a settlement. The papers ...

The family of an Aboriginal elder who died of heat stroke in a prison van with no air conditioning on a brutally hot day in Australia's Outback will be given 3.2 million Australian dollars ($2.9 million) in compensation, a state ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - When someone collapses suddenly, mouth-to-mouth rescue breathing may not be necessary and could lower the chances of survival, researchers said in two studies on Wednesday that found chest compression alone is enough. The findings add to evidence that the simpler approach works best during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR. "Chest compression alone is at least as good, at least ...

More bystanders are willing to attempt CPR if an emergency dispatcher gives them firm and direct instructions — especially if they can just press on the chest and skip the mouth-to-mouth, according to new research. The two new studies conclude that "hands-only" chest compression is enough to save ...

A Japanese tanker first thought to have been hit by an blast in the Strait of Hormuz Wednesday then said to have been struck by a huge wave arrived in the United Arab Emirates, a port official said. The M.Star of the Mitsui OSK Lines arrived in Fujairah harbour under its own steam for repairs. The official WAM news ...

A mysterious explosion hit a Japanese oil tanker near Iran in the vital Strait of Hormuz early on Wednesday, spotlighting a potential threat in a chokepoint for global oil supplies. There were differing theories about the cause of the blast -- which did not cause any serious injuries or an oil spill -- ranging from a terrorist attack to an explosion of ...