Fire damages Cheney's ceremonial office
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A fire damaged Vice President Dick Cheney's ceremonial office in a building overlooking the White House on Wednesday and forced hundreds of government workers to evacuate.
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Fire broke out high in a downtown office building Monday evening, sending flames shooting from windows as firefighters escorted workers through blinding smoke to safety.
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Fire broke out Thursday in a 15-story apartment building, injuring seven people and temporarily trapping several others on balconies, fire officials said.
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Flames gnawed away the wooden doors and blackened the walls of the center, a meeting place for the elderly and disadvantaged located on the ground floor of a six-story building.
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An explosion outside the main U.S. base in Afghanistan causes casualties during Cheney's visit
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The Treasury Department, next door to the White House, was evacuated Wednesday after a pipe burst on the second floor of the building.
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A fire has destroyed Namdaemun, South Korea's oldest wooden structure and a national treasure, fire officials said Monday.
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A Capitol Hill house where Sen. Barack Obama rents an apartment caught on fire Sunday, but a spokesman said the Democratic presidential contender was out of town to celebrate Father's Day.
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Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday tempered comments he made last week that warned of the risk of another terrorist attack if Democratic Sen. John Kerry were elected president.
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Flames and thick black smoke are sighted at a US government building in Washington DC.
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WASHINGTON Vice President Dick Cheney charged Tuesday that Senator John Kerry was so dangerously weak on terrorism that if he were elected president, ââweâll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Shi'ite vice president narrowly escaped assassination yesterday as a blast ripped through a government meeting hall just hours after it was searched by US teams with bomb-sniffing dogs. At least 10 people were killed.
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A bearded man shouting &quot;Allah&quot; set himself on fire outside the White House on Monday before uniformed Secret Service agents wrestled him to the ground and extinguished the flames, officials and witnesses said.
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Vice President Dick Cheney, who has a history of heart trouble, went to a hospital Saturday after experiencing shortness of breath, an aide said.
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Vice President Cheney was shuttled into a bomb shelter at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan this morning after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the main gate in an attack Taliban officials say was aimed at the vice president.
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At least 19 people die in a blast near Afghanistan's main US base, during Vice-President Cheney's visit.
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- An explosion outside the main US military base in Afghanistan killed 19 people and wounded 11 early today during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, though the vice president was apparently not in danger, US and Afghan officials said.