A blaze engulfed a downtown high-rise residential building, killing at least 42 people and injuring 90 on Monday (November 15).

Five teenagers loiter behind a scarred steel door that opens on the cramped foyer of a squat, brick apartment building, one of many in a warren of public-housing complexes in Southwest Washington. Their looks are vacant but their manner is confrontational. It's here, in this neighborhood ravaged by unemployment, crack ...

Xinhua. SHANGHAI. Firefighters have brought under control a blaze that killed at least 42 people in a downtown Shanghai apartment block yesterday, municipal authorities said.

A fire engulfed a Shanghai high-rise building on Monday, killing 42 people as panicked residents stumbled over each other to escape while thick smoke spread across China's commercial hub.

Firefighters extinguish blaze on the apartment building on fire in the downtown area of Shanghai, east China, Nov. 15, 2010. Firefighters have brought under control a blaze that killed at least 42 people in a downtown Shanghai apartment block Monday, municipal authorities said.

IT WAS an image to brighten the day of even the most jaded South Sydney supporter and, presumably, one to keep blood at boiling point in Brisbane. At 7.58am yesterday, Greg Inglis made his way up the stairs from beneath Redfern Oval and on to the open-plan, inner-city field for his first training session in a Rabbitohs singlet.

Building materials caught fire at a tower undergoing renovation, and the blaze raced up scaffolding around the structure, a witness says. A high-rise apartment building under renovation in Shanghai erupted in flames Monday, killing 53 people and injuring 90, the official New China News Agency said.

A huge fire engulfed a Shanghai high-rise building on Monday, killing 42 people as panicked residents stumbled over each other to escape while thick smoke spread across China's commercial hub.

SHANGHAI (AFP) - A fire engulfed a Shanghai high-rise building Monday, killing 12 and injuring 90, as panicked residents fled and thick smoke spread over China's commercial hub.

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