Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: collapse

collapse stories: 41 news summaries

1 - 20 of 41 Stories | 1 2 3 Next >>

Switch to grid view »

 Leonard Cohen 
 Collapses 
 in Spain 

Canadian singer suffered from cramps, vomiting

Sep 19, 09 5:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Leonard Cohen collapsed onstage in Spain last night and was rushed to a hospital with stomach pain, the CBC reports. The 75-year-old singer, who fainted while singing "Bird on the Wire," suffered from stomach cramps and vomiting before losing consciousness. Cohen was released this morning and said he... More »

MORE ABOUT:
food poisoning • Spain • collapse • Leonard Cohen • concert tour

OPINION

 
 Florida's a Dying 
 Ponzi Scheme, 
 But I Love It  

Tax base erodes as tourists, snowbirds dwindle

Sep 6, 09 3:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Florida resident Diane Roberts isn’t surprised—or even upset—that her state is collapsing. The Sunshine State's population is dwindling for the first time since World War II as tourists and snowbirds pull out, eroding the tax base that funded just about everything. "Our whole economy is more... More »

MORE ABOUT:
climate change • Florida • recession • population • collapse • Ponzi scheme

Marseilles Cops Probe Madonna Stage Collapse

Company behind it made LA stage that caved in last year

Jul 17, 09 7:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police in Marseilles have launched a manslaughter investigation into the Madonna stage collapse that killed two and injured ten others, the Times of London reports. Police plan to question dozens of witnesses, analyze videotape, and read over commercial contracts. The company that built the stage—and constructed a Madonna stage... More »

MORE ABOUT:
France • collapse • manslaughter • Madonna • fatalities • injuries • stage

 Shanghai Building 
 Collapses Intact 

Construction worker killed trying to retrieve tools

Jun 27, 09 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 13-story building under construction in Shanghai collapsed almost completely intact today, Reuters reports, killing a construction worker who entered the block of apartments to fetch his tools. The Chinese construction industry has been accused of dangerously shoddy work as the country rushes to build out its cities and infrastructure... More »

MORE ABOUT:
China • collapse • Shanghai • residential building • construction safety

(AP) - Dallas Cowboys special teams coach Joe DeCamillis broke his back and 11 more were injured when winds just shy of tornado strength ripped through the roof of the team's indoor practice facility during a rookie minicamp today. Former coach Dan Reeves, DeCamillis' father-in-law, said the first-year Dallas coach has broken... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Dallas Cowboys • collapse • injuries

(Newser) - The “collapse of the American dream” is complete, says a Russian scholar, and President Obama will declare martial law and the US will splinter into six regions by the end of 2010, the AP reports. Igor Panarin, the dean of Russia's Foreign Ministry school, cited school shootings, the prison... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Russia • United States • global economy • collapse • predictions • economic downturn • Russian foreign ministry

 Finance Crisis 
 Topples Iceland's Gov't 

Leftist party likely to replace coalition; protests growing

Jan 26, 09 11:55 AM CST
(Newser) - Iceland’s coalition government collapsed today amid financial upheaval, with PM Geir Haarde planning to resign. “I really regret that we could not continue with this coalition. I believe that that would have been the best result,” he said. The coalition had been in turmoil since October, when... More »

MORE ABOUT:
government • collapse • Iceland • coalition government • financial crisis • Geir Haarde

Big Dig Manslaughter Charge Dropped After $16M Deal

Company made epoxy whose failure resulted in death in Boston tunnel

Dec 17, 08 3:02 PM CST
(Newser) - The legal wrangling around a 2006 Boston tunnel collapse that killed one woman appears to finally be over, the Globe reports. In exchange for a $16 million fine, prosecutors have dropped manslaughter charges against Powers Fasteners, which manufactured a supposedly fast-setting epoxy that failed to support ceiling panels. Powers must... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Boston • construction • collapse • Big Dig • manslaughter • manufacturer • settlement • tunnel • highways • punitive damages

 Cholera Is Raging, 
 Whatever Mugabe Says 

Zimbabwe nears total collapse as health sector shuts down

Dec 12, 08 6:51 AM CST
(Newser) - Robert Mugabe says that the cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe has ended, but health experts say that 60,000 people could succumb to the disease, and half of the country's population is at risk. Zimbabwe's socioeconomic collapse has frighteningly accelerated, writes Celia Dugger in Harare, and daily life has become impossible.... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Africa • Zimbabwe • Robert Mugabe • collapse • Cholera • hyper-inflation

Putin Promises to Help Sliding Russian Economy

With many paychecks weeks behind, crisis reminds nation of '90s collapse

Nov 21, 08 2:01 PM CST
(Newser) - Vladimir Putin proposed steps yesterday to stabilize the Russian economy as layoffs and deferred wages cause rising insecurity about the nation’s finances, the Wall Street Journal reports. Russian firms now owe $145 million in delayed wages to 300,000 people, and those figures may actually be higher—a fifth... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Russia • Vladimir Putin • wages • collapse • unemployment benefits • United Russia • economy • financial crisis

(Newser) - The death toll in the Haitian school collapse has risen to 75, the AP reports. The mayor of the Port-au-Prince suburb where it occurred said 17 dead students have been found so far today. Another 80 are being treated for injuries, many of them serious, and hundreds more children could... More »

MORE ABOUT:
construction • Haiti • school • collapse • rescue • survivors • search • building • disaster

 Haiti School Collapse 
 Kills At Least 30 

Poor repair job, not recent rains, doomed building, mayor says

Nov 7, 08 4:21 PM CST
(Newser) - At least 30 people, many possibly children, died in Haiti today when a school building collapsed, AP reports. The school, in a village in the hills above Port-au-Prince, experienced a partial collapse in 2000. Before today, the building was under construction, and the town’s mayor said structural problems, not... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Brazil • Haiti • Chile • school • Red Cross • collapse • Ecuador • Dominican Republic • Doctors Without Borders • engineering • disaster

 Fire Collapsed WTC 7: Report

Building was next to twin towers

Aug 21, 08 12:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fires, not explosives, caused the collapse of World Trade Center 7—a skyscraper near the twin towers—on Sept. 11, a 3-year US government investigation concludes. Scientists with the National Institute of Standards and Technology say the 47-story tower was destroyed by fires, made worse by a failed sprinkler system... More »

MORE ABOUT:
fires • World Trade Center • skyscraper • collapse • conspiracy theory • 9/11 attacks • WTC 7

 Iconic Arch
 in Utah Park
 Collapses

First to fall since 1991

Aug 10, 08 1:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - A popular stone arch collapsed early last week in Utah's Arches National Park, the AP reports. First discovered in 1948, the Wall Arch fell victim to gravity and the very same force that formed the sandstone structure—erosion. "They all let go after a while," said a park... More »

MORE ABOUT:
erosion • Utah • monument • collapse • national park

 16 Girls Killed, More
 Trapped in Turkey
 Dorm Collapse 

Rescue teams dig frantically to unearth survivors

Aug 1, 08 9:35 AM CDT
(AP) - A three-story dormitory housing female students collapsed in central Turkey today, killing at least 16 girls, injuring at least 27, and setting off a search for a half-dozen students believed to be under the rubble. The students, between ages 8 and 16, were attending Koran courses in the city of... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Turkey • recovery • collapse • disaster

 China Silences
 Media on
 School Collapses 

Negative press is hurting shining reviews of relief effort

Jun 2, 08 6:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - China has called on domestic media to quit reporting on widespread school collapses in the Sichuan earthquake, the Financial Times reports. Some parents hold the government accountable for poor construction they say claimed thousands of children’s lives, and the furor has hurt the positive reviews of China’s response... More »

MORE ABOUT:
China • school • collapse • earthquake • media coverage • Sichuan province

 Antarctic Ice Chunk Collapses 

Sudden break fuels climate change concerns

Mar 25, 08 5:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A mammoth chunk of ice has collapsed in Antarctica, leaving an ice shelf the size of Connecticut "hanging by a thread" and providing more evidence of global warming, scientists say. The sudden collapse of the 160-square-mile piece of ice threatens the Wilkins ice shelf, which has been in place... More »

MORE ABOUT:
climate change • environment • global warming • Antarctica • collapse • ice shelf • ice chunk

6th Hole Shows No Signs of Life

Aug 25, 07 9:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - The last hole drilled into the collapsed Utah mine where six men are trapped yielded no hopeful sign today; the space it reached was too small to support the men, a lawyer for some of the families told the press. "The only thing they told us is there is... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Utah • collapse • mine • miners • Crandall Canyon • mine collapse • disaster

Mine Rescue Effort Called Off

Aug 17, 07 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The search for the six men trapped in a collapsed Utah mine for the last 12 days has been halted indefinitely after a seismic "bump" at 6:39 PM yesterday caused a second cave-in, killing three rescuers, injuring six, and highlighting that the Crandall Canyon mine remains fraught with... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Utah • collapse • mine • miners • Crandall Canyon • Bob Murray • Jon Huntsman

3 Rescue Workers Killed in Mine

Community reels as seismic jolt triggers new accident

Aug 17, 07 12:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Three men have died and six were injured in another collapse at a Utah mine where the team was working to save six trapped miners, reports the New York Times. "It's a devastating blow to what was already a tragic situation," said the local mayor. The accident yesterday... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Utah • accident • collapse • mine • rescue • Crandall Canyon • Bob Murray

1 - 20 of 41 Stories | 1 2 3 Next >>


from our news partners