&#39;The balcony and the wall were gone&#39;
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It was a luxury hotel full of families enjoying a warm late summer&#39;s evening. Some sat by the swimming pool while others strolled casually into the Taba Hilton Hotel dining room.
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Workers on Thursday began removing the cross-shaped steel beams that were left standing in the rubble of the World Trade Center five years ago, and prepared to move them to a temporary home at a nearby church. The 20-foot-tall artifact was discovered in the smoking ruins two weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and became a symbol for recovery workers, family and later construction crews at the site.
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A line of cobblestones in the street marks where the Wall once ran through the middle of town.
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Iraqis inspect the rubble of a destroyed house following US air strikes on the city of Falluja. Photograph: Mohammed Khodor/Reuters.
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By Christina Kent, The Miami Herald  Sep. 18--An incomplete roof job and heavy rains left about a hundred residents of a North Miami condominium without a place to stay Sunday night, according to WFOR CBS 4.
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As soon as priests and parishioners walked out of the gothic doors of St. Patrick&#39;s Cathedral after Mass yesterday, they were confronted with
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TUNISâA ship carrying illegal immigrants to Italy sank off Tunisia, killing at least 22 people and leaving another 42 missing, news reports said yesterday, sharpening the debate in Italy over how to deal with hundreds of people trying to slip into
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A weekend of fun vanished in a storm of fire and smoke that killed seven college friends and left behind a gutted beach house and an emotionally devastated campus
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Expensive yachts were beached, tossed to the shore like toys. Well-built homes were reduced to splintered wood, or left without roofs. Utility poles and palm trees were snapped in two or uprooted.
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A 10-story apartment block in Portugal was evacuated in the early hours forcing dozens of people out of their beds and onto the street, after a man stole the building's copper pipes, causing a gas leak, police said.
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PENSACOLA, Florida _ In the wake of Hurricane Ivan&#39;s destructive path, residents along the Gulf of Mexico coast in Alabama and Florida returned to their neighborhoods Saturday to find their roofs blown off, appliances missing and clothing littering in the
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Sept. 27, 2004 - A huge wall collapsed Monday at an unfinished terminal at Dubai&#39;s airport, killing at least eight workers and injuring dozens more, witnesses said.
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The blast doors  that were to shield members of the Federal Reserve board from  nuclear annihilation are gone.
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Other protesters and witnesses say the man reached a ledge near the balcony where the royal family appears on ceremonial occasions.
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Hundreds of the cityâs best and brightest are leaving, driven away by crime, high rents and what many say is a dissipating sense of possibility.
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Fortunately, it ended as such. The major massacre did not occur, but small ones did. The shrines and the holy places were not destroyed, although some walls were hit.
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French police said yesterday that they had ended their practice of hiding plastic explosives in air passengers&#39; luggage to train bomb-sniffing dogs after one such bag got lost, possibly