The Pemberton Mill, a large cotton goods factory, collapses without warning, killing an estimated 145 workers and injuring another 166. It is one of the worst industrial accidents in the state's ...

With 14 confirmed deaths, the New Year’s attack in New Orleans is the 10th deadliest mass killing in the U.S. since tracking began in 2006. A mass killing is defined as an event where four or ...

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During what remains the most familiar wave of migration, the Viking hordes settled across Europe, with many battles breaking out particularly in England. This led to famous battles such as the ...

The terror attack in New Orleans was one of the deadliest on US soil since 9/11 after the death toll rose to 15 on Wednesday afternoon. Five additional victims have ...

Biomolecular analysis of teeth of people buried on the island of Oland, Sweden – known for its impressive Viking remains – was found to contain ancestry from Central Europe and Britain.

A FEMALE sniper shamed her doubters by defeating every man she faced during World War Two - clocking up an impressive kill count. Lyudmila Pavlichenko earned herself the nickname Lady Death ...

This insinuates that people of Scandinavian ancestry were in Britain before the Anglo-Saxon period (around 400 A.D. to 1,000 A.D.) and Viking period (around 800 A.D. to 1,000 A.D.). Genetic analysis ...

That would have still been more than the 2023 total of 135 but fewer than its 2022 homicide total of 144, which surpassed that of the deadliest year in recent city history, 1991. Birmingham police ...

Birmingham ended 2024 with 151 homicides, the highest number of killings in the city in more than nine decades. Revenge, machine gun conversion devices and mass shootings drove the number of ...