Blaze consumes Caracas skyscraper
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A fire has destroyed the upper portion of one of the tallest buildings in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas. The cause of the fire in the 56-storey East Tower of Pargue Central complex is not yet known.
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A four-story building collapsed in   Manhattan on Monday morning after an apparent gas explosion,   causing at least eight injuries, a frantic rescue operation and   sending smoke billowing into the air.
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Sections of a 32-story landmark office building on Madrid's skyline collapsed Sunday morning hours after a fire raged through the upper floors.
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More than 100 firefighters bring a major fire at a four-storey building in Belfast city centre under control.
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The Philippine capital of Metro Manila was hit Sunday by several fires, including a big torch in the populous Mandaluyong residential area, as the city has dived into Christmas celebrations and family gatherings.
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Revellers have described the panic and chaos when a Buenos Aires nightclub became an inferno. Police and firefighters struggled to put out the blaze and rescue thousands of people who had been attending a rock concert in the Argentine capital.
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A big explosion badly damaged a house in downtown Kabul Sunday, killing at least one man. The building was in flames.
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A fire described as the worst in  Madrid's history ravaged a 32-story skyscraper in the Spanish  capital's financial district on Sunday, causing no injuries,  but the tower stayed upright despite fears of collapse.
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Top two stories of structure in Victoria crumble following apparent explosion.
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Firefighters allowed into the shell of the burned-out Madrid skyscraper say parts of the building are still unstable.
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An explosion injures several people in a building in Barcelona.
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A blaze engulfed the upper half of the 56-story East Tower of the Parque Central complex housing ministries and state agencies in Caracas before dawn on Sunday.
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A fire swept through a crowded Buenos Aires nightclub, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 200, police said Friday.
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By Patrick Markey CARACAS, Venezuela  - A Venezuelan prosecutorprobing a 2002 coup against President Hugo Chavez was killed bya car bomb that the government blamed on Friday on radicalopponents it said were training in the United States.
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A four-story building collapsed after an explosion Monday night, killing at least two people and injuring dozens, police and fire officials said.
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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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CARACAS, Venezuela - The 26 upper floors of one of the highest buildings in Venezuela were on fire today, said the Caracas fire chief, Rodolfo BriceÃ±o.