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...just prior to the start of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, police officers were hit by a truck being driven by Uyghurs. According to The New York Times, 16 officers were killed in what was billed “the deadliest assault in China since the 1990s...
...Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in IraqBy Matthew Alexander with John R. BruningFree Press; 288 pages...
...aftershocks came within an hour and fires raged for three days afterward, destroying 500 city blocks. In photos, 1906 San Francisco resembles a war zone; buildings are left half-standing, the streets are littered with debris, barely anything is recognizable. With an estimated 3,000 deaths, 1906 was the deadliest earthquake in California's history. Economists have even connected the following year's economic crash with the quake; millions of dollars went to rebuild the city, putting a strain on the money supply...
...original version of this story misstated that breast cancer is the No. 1 cancer killer among women. In fact, lung cancer is the deadliest...
...bomb planted in or near a mini-bus ferrying schoolgirls exploded. It was rapidly followed by a suicide bombing targeting onlookers rushing to help, according to an Interior Ministry official. The estimates numbered the dead from 25 to 31, with some 70 people wounded. It was the deadliest attack in months, but nothing like the devastatingly lethal blasts during Baghdad's darkest days, when death tolls would rapidly and routinely spiral into the hundreds. In a macabre way the blast was both a reminder of how infrequent such attacks have become but also how unstable the country remains...