Dubai fireworks go on as hotel inferno rages nearby
DUBAI - Fire engulfed a 63-story skyscraper in downtown Dubai on Thursday night, but authorities insisted that a spectacular New Year's Eve fireworks display surrounding the nearby Burj Khalifa go on.
Floods swamp Missouri, Illinois; nine million people in risk areas
Record flooding from rain-swollen rivers has washed out hundreds of structures in Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma, forcing thousands to flee their homes, and 9.3 million Americans still face flood warnings. | Video
No plea bargain for 'not guilty' Bill Cosby, lawyer says
Comedian Bill Cosby's lawyer said on Thursday that the entertainer would not consider a plea bargain on charges he sexually assaulted a woman in 2004 after giving her drugs and alcohol.
Rouhani expands Iran's missile program despite U.S. sanctions threat
DUBAI President Hassan Rouhani ordered his defense minister on Thursday to expand Iran's missile program, in defiance of a U.S. threat to impose sanctions over a ballistic missile test Iran carried out in October.
Microsoft failed to warn victims of Chinese email hack: former employees
SAN FRANCISCO Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities had hacked into more than a thousand Hotmail email accounts, targeting international leaders of China’s Tibetan and Uighur minorities in particular – but it decided not to tell the victims, allowing the hackers to continue their campaign, according to former employees of the company.
Oil ends 2015 down 35 percent; long, painful hangover seen
NEW YORK/LONDON Oil prices rose on Thursday but fell as much as 35 percent for the year after a race to pump by Middle East crude producers and U.S. shale oil drillers created an unprecedented global glut that may take through 2016 to clear.
Robert Redford death reports are 'sick hoax,' publicist says
NEW YORK Robert Redford is alive and well, his publicist said on Thursday, calling reports on Twitter that the "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" actor had died "a sick hoax."
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