Satellite smashes Chinese house
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A Chinese satellite hits a villager's house on its return to earth, reports say.
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Nearly 100 people were killed or are missing after a typhoon hit the southern coast of Vietnam this week, damaging hundreds of thousands of flimsy homes, a government report said on Thursday.
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China either didn't know or didn't care that its test of a satellite killer would produce a spray of space debris. Either way, it's worrisome for the future use of space.  Another question is why China even bothered.
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China's recent success at destroying a satellite in low-Earth orbit is a threat to the interests of all space-faring nations and posed dangers to human space flight, the Pentagon said Friday.
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By MATTHEW FORDAHL    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- A $239 million satellite toppled to a factory floor last year because nobody bothered to check that it was secure before moving it, according to a NASA investigation board's report on the mishap...
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KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel  - Shattered glass still   litters much of Vilen Gizunterman's dark apartment weeks after   a Hizbollah rocket blew out his windows and destroyed two of   his neighbors' homes.
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A tornado swept across eastern China,  killing 14 people and injuring 146, state media reported on  Wednesday, the latest casualties from bad weather that has  devastated parts of the country this summer.
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An earthquake hit a tea-making city in southwest China on Sunday, bringing down houses and killing at least three people, one a 4-year-old, and injuring 300, Xinhua news agency said.
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SHANGHAI, China Typhoon Aere (EYE&#39;-ray) is tearing through mainland China where nearly a (m) million people have been ordered to leave their homes.
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BAGHDAD, DECEMBER 29: A powerful blast destroyed a house in western Baghdad during an overnight police raid, flattening several nearby buildings and killing at least 28 people, including seven policemen, police said on Wednesday.
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An explosion blew the door off a Muslim school in a southern Dutch town and shattered windows across the street yesterday, Dutch television reported.
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JABAR, Afghanistan -- A coalition airstrike destroyed a mud-brick home after a rocket attack on a US base, killing nine people from four generations of an Afghan family including a 6-month-old, officials and relatives said yesterday -- one of the latest in a string of civilian deaths that threaten to undermine the government.
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China launched an experimental satellite into orbit Sunday, atop a Long March 2C carrier rocket; reported Xinhua, China&#39;s government-run news agency.
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A powerful blast destroyed a house in  western Baghdad during an overnight raid by police, flattening  several nearby buildings and killing at least 28 people  including seven policemen, police said on Wednesday.
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Chaotic winter weather besieged  China's business and farming heartland on Tuesday amid the  country's worst power crisis, with one mountain-road accident  blamed on snow killing 25 people ahead of a major holiday.
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A US spy satellite has gone out of control and is due to crash to Earth within two months, US sources say.
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Dozens of people are trapped in a building in south-western China after it collapsed, officials say.