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1953: After several high-profile crashes of de Havilland Comet airliners go unsolved, Australian researcher David Warren invents a device to record cockpit noise and instruments during flight. During the first half of aviation’s history, crashes rarely came with any answers. Even if an eyewitness saw an airplane crash, little was known ...

Greg Mankiw noted in January 2009:Econ prof Bill Seyfried of Rollins College emails me:Here's an interesting fact that you may not have seen yet. The M1 money multiplier just slipped below 1. So each $1 increase in reserves (monetary base) results in t...

KIim Cattrall’s love interest in the SATC sequel, Max Ryan has been hospitalized with broken ribs & cracked collarbone after a motorcycle crash this week. British actor Max Ryan, who plays Rikard in the upcoming movie, is recovering at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after a head-on collision on a Los Angeles freeway ...

A memorial service has been held in Belgium for the victims of the head-on train crash earlier this month in which 18 people died. Prime Minister Yves Leterme and Prince Philippe joined rescue and rail workers in Brussels but many relatives of those killed stayed away, amid anger over safety ...

A minute’s silence is held across the Belgian rail network in memory of those who died in Monday’s train crash. Authorities say 18 people were killed and 171 injured, while three more are unaccounted for.

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Belgian rail officials say that two commuter trains have collided head-on at rush hour in a Brussels suburb yesterday, killing as many as 25 people. Other officials said the death toll was lower. Belgian National Railways told the VRT radio network that 25 people had ...

Belgian rail officials say that two commuter trains have collided head-on at rush hour in a Brussels suburb yesterday, killing as many as 25 people. Other officials said the death toll was lower. Belgian National Railways told the VRT radio network that 25 people had died. The suburb's mayor

Two passenger trains in Belgium have collided head-on near the capital, Brussels, with the latest reports of the death toll ranging from 10 to 25. Railway officials said the trains collided during the morning rush hour at Halle, south-west of Brussels. One reportedly missed a stop signal.

Two trains crashed head-on outside of Brussels Monday, killing at least 20 people, officials and Belgian broadcaster VRT said. The local trains collided near Halle, some 15 kilometers (9 miles) southwest of Brussels at around 8:30am. (0730 GMT). VRT said 20 people were killed,

Silicon Valley's decline has been charted over an eight-year period between 2000 and 2008 in which venture capital investment meant big gains for technology workers' wages in the beginning, but those IT wages have since diminished, according to government economists. The recovery will be slow and gradual, they say. ...

A French judge was to decide yesterday whether to call off the manslaughter trial of Continental Airlines mechanics and French engineers blamed for a Concorde plane crash that killed 113. Judge Dominique Andreassier was to respond to a call by Continental's lawyer Olivier Metzner to ...

Photo by Nilina Mason-Campbell Last night, of Montreal performed at Manhattan's Highline Ballroom, playing new songs and delivering a typically extravagant concert experience. Which is pretty cool. But then, the coolest mom in America, Susan Sarandon, joined the band on stage, turning the gig into the stuff of legend. She ...

Defense Minister Dragan Šutanovac has sustained minor injuries in a traffic accident near Batočina, in central Serbia. Šutanovac is feeling well and has not been seriously injured, B92 has learned. Reports said that he “hit his head hard” during the crash, and that he will be examined by doctors at ...

Words & Images by: Andrew Bruss Crash Kings :: 12.13.09 :: Middle East :: Cambridge, MA Crash Kings :: 12.13 :: Boston Crash Kings won over the Middle East Downstairs even though the sold out crowd was not their own. ...

House prices are rising again in many countriesWHEN The Economist last took stock of house prices across the globe, prices were falling in all but two countries. Three months later, prices are now rising in a total of six countries plus Hong Kong, which is experiencing double-digit growth. A recovery ...

Two trains have collided in northwest Turkey, killing the driver and injuring three other train personnel. Some passengers are reported to be trapped. However it is not known if they are seriously injured.

Golf superstar Tiger Woods had a "fat lip" but no other visible facial injuries when Florida Highway Patrol officers met him four days after a mysterious car crash outside his home, a local television station reported Wednesday. Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman Kim Montes told WESH-TV in

Golf superstar Tiger Woods had a "fat lip" but no other visible facial injuries when Florida Highway Patrol officers met him four days after a mysterious car crash outside his home, a local television station reported Wednesday. Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman Kim Montes told WESH-TV in

A woman was killed when a bus crashed in icy conditions in Britain on Wednesday, police said, as freezing weather continued to cause havoc across the country. Some 48 passengers were also injured, six seriously, when the bus flipped over on a narrow road in the village ...