Part of Times Square shut down in bomb scare
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A section of New York City's Times Square was closed down on Tuesday as police investigated what they described as a possible bomb scare.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - A strong earthquake shook Taiwan on Friday, forcing the Taipei subway system to shut down during the lunchtime rush.
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Part of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington has been evacuated and closed to tourists after suspicious items were found, a park police officer said Monday.
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An explosion rocks New York, sending fear over a city that knows it is a target of terror.
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A fire at the stationâs Lincoln Center headquarters knocked it off the air for at least an hour, according to a station official.
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A four-story building on Manhattan&#039;s Upper East Side collapsed into a pile of rubble Monday after a thunderous explosion that hurled fireballs skyward and left an upscale block littered with bricks, broken glass and splintered wood.
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Less than a month after highways and bridges were shut down during a bomb scare touched off by an advertising stunt, a new marketing scheme has led angry city officials to shut down a historic site.
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New York City's bustling Pennsylvania Station was shut down and briefly evacuated just before the evening rush today, as firefighters coped with blazes that broke out in a transformer beneath the East River and on tracks near a terminal entrance, the authorities said. Tens of thousands of commuters were left scrambling to find a way home.
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THE barricades are appearing around Madison Square Garden and streets are being closed. Below, in the enormous Penn Station, New York&#39;s finest peek into railway cars, sit alongside passengers in the Amtrak
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9 September 2004 -- Russian police in St. Petersburg said today they found explosives, detonators, and a gun in a cinema which was closed for renovation.
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A major road and railway in the south   of the Netherlands were closed off briefly on Wednesday after a   bomb scare at a U.S. military base, Dutch officials said.
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NEW YORK - About 3,000 shoppers were evacuated from the Toys R Us Inc. Times Square store Saturday after pepper spray was let off inside, fire department officials said.
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Security officials closed one concourse at the Indianapolis International Airport for about an hour early Wednesday because of a suspicious package that police said turned out to be inert training explosives.
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A group of electronic light boards featuring an adult cartoon character triggered bomb scares around Boston on Wednesday, spurring authorities to close two bridges and a stretch of the Charles River before determining the devices were harmless.Suspicious packages give Boston police 'the finger '
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Police evacuated a building in Jersey  City, N.J., which has some financial companies as tenants,  after a bomb threat was called in to a tenant, Jersey City  police said on Wednesday.
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Because of population changes in the city since Sept. 11, 2001, a great many New Yorkers lack firsthand knowledge of the cityÂs critical modern moment.
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A suspect package is being investigated in Hammersmith, west London, and a nearby train station, Barons Court, has been closed as a precaution, London police said on Tuesday.