Entire church to be transported across Kiruna in Sweden – landmark 113-year-old wooden building is at risk from subsidence and will be moved 5km on giant rolling platforms
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The hidden engineering of floating bridges
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Tomorrowland EDM festival main stage destroyed by fire day before opening, but festival will go on
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The Grenfell Tower fire: London’s high-rise scandal
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Survivors and families of those killed in an oil rig disaster forty-five years ago will finally get compensation from the Norwegian state after a close vote passed in the country's parliament
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Outsourcing responsibility: explosion at Optima Belle
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Outsourcing responsibility: Explosion at Optima Belle
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Despair as death toll from Dominican Republic nightclub collapse rises
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Heathrow Airport shutdown causes flight chaos and leaves thousands stranded
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What really happened on the deadly Jetline roller coaster accident at Gröna Lund in Stockholm?
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Families of the more than 120 men killed when the Alexander L. Kielland oil rig capsized in 1980 were failed by official investigations in Norway, a new study has concluded
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Fire at one of the world's largest battery plants forces evacuations in California
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Beirut blast investigator resumes probe, charges ten people
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Emmanuel Macron praises artisans in ceremony prior to reopening Notre Dame cathedral in Paris
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At least sixty-four dead and millions without power after hurricane Helene devastates south-eastern US states with landslides and flooding, washing away roads and bridges
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Five months after a devastating fire destroyed more than half of Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange, workers are set to begin the reconstruction of the 400-year-old building
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A dam collapses in eastern Sudan after heavy rainfall and local media report dozens missing
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Swedish accident investigators determine country's oldest amusement park Gröna Lund didn't properly test new parts for a roller coaster that derailed last year, killing one
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How bridge engineers design against ship collisions
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Trapped ships finally able to leave Baltimore
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Copenhagen and Paris mayors exchange lessons learned after huge fires destroy landmarks
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Fire breaks out at Copenhagen's historic Stock Exchange
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Mexico City’s metro system is sinking fast
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Norwegian bridge collapsed ten years after it was built – all because designers focused too much on making it look good
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Baltimore bridge salvage: 'This is a game of Jenga you don't want to lose'
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Windows keep falling off skyscrapers. Why?
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Dozens trapped in tunnels after Taiwan’s strongest quake in twenty-five years kills at least nine
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Baltimore port bridge collapse: Global ocean carriers put US companies on hook for urgent cargo pickup
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Cargo ship hits major bridge in Baltimore, triggering collapse (gifted link)
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Crooked House: Owners of wonky UK pub ordered to rebuild
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Grindavík in Iceland now lies empty. Its people have fled and are beginning to face up to the realisation they may never be able live there again.
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The world’s largest earthquake simulator, and how it works
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A man blew up his apartment in Japan while trying to kill a single cockroach with way too much insecticide, police say
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House explodes in Arlington VA, as police attempt to execute search warrant
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Libya flooding: 10,000 people thought to be missing after dams burst
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Flooding in Libya leaves 2,000 people feared dead and more missing after storm collapsed dams
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260 year old Crooked House pub catches fire and is demolished days after purchase by developer
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Devastating Maui fire wipes out historic town Lahaina
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The danger of popcorn polymer: Incident at the TPC Group chemical plant
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Philadelphia I-95 bridge collapse explained
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One person was killed and several injured in a roller coaster accident at the Gröna Lund amusement park in Stockholm
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I-95 highway in Philadelphia has collapsed; officials say repairs will take "months"
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Portion of Interstate 95 collapses in Philadelphia after tanker fire burns under overpass
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Transient hazards: Explosion at the Husky Superior Refinery
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Russia destroys Kherson-region dam
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Czechia's incredible 1960s supervillain-lair hotel (and why its architect got banned by the regime)
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A Swedish town is on the move, one building at a time – subsidence from the world's biggest iron ore mine threatens to swallow up the Arctic town of Kiruna
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Berlin's giant AquaDom hotel aquarium containing 1,500 fish explodes
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How long would society last during a total grid collapse?
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The Crimean Bridge has been partially destroyed, cutting off essential southern supply routes for Russian military
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