Pakistan Gas Explosion Partially Collapses Apartment Building, Killing 16

A gas explosion at an apartment building in the port city of Karachi, Pakistan, killed 16 people, including women and children, and injured several others in a blast which partially collapsed the structure and trapped victims underneath mounds of rubble, as authorities continue to investigate the incident. See Full Story>

Fatal Egypt Highway Crash Kills 19, Mostly Fishermen

 

A fatal crash on the 30 June Axis highway, south of the Egyptian coastal city of Port Said, involving two cargo trucks that crushed a pickup truck carrying a group of Matareya fisherman on their way to work at nearby fish farms, killed 19 people and injured three others. See Full Story>

Civil Rights Crusader Rev. Jesse Jackson, Dies at 84

 

The Reverend Jesse Jackson, a pioneering Civil Rights leader who worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. within his innermost circles, ran for President of the United States as a Democrat twice, and advocated throughout the world, died peacefully in his Chicago home at the age of 84. See Full Story>

Sketch Released of Suspect in Nancy Guthrie Kidnapping

A former forensics artist released a sketch of a suspected kidnapper authorities claim as a person of interest connected to the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, 84, mother of NBC's Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, abducted from her Rio Rico, Arizona home in Tucson, as the search to her whereabouts enters a third week. See Full Story>

At Least 31 Dead in Islamabad Mosque Suicide Bombing

Authorities arrested four suspects connected to Islamic State affiliates for a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in the Tarlai Kalan area of the capital city Islamabad, Pakistatn, after a gunman opened fire outside the compound before detonating a bomb, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 170 others. See Full Story>