Part Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris was evacuated Friday due to the accumulation of snow on the roof and hundreds of flights were canceled because of a shortage of de-icing fluid, authorities said, as blustery winter weather snarled travel across Europe.
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Snow and ice snag travel in Europe
Two Chicago firefighters were killed and 14 others injured battling a blaze when the roof of an abandoned building collapsed, an official says.
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2 firefighters die after roof collapse
Firefighters tackle a blaze in the roof of Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill.
The storm that slammed the U.S. Midwest Sunday-and collapsed the roof of Minnesota’s Metrodome-is moving eastward, and could dump a few feet of snow on Cleveland by week’s end. Nearly 1,500 flights were canceled at O’Hare International Airport in…
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Blizzard Shuts Down Midwest
A Metropolitan Police firearms officer is under investigation after a Taser was lost when he drove off with it still on the roof of a police vehicle.
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Taser on police car roof is lost
A teenager is in a serious but stable condition after being crushed by snow and ice which fell from the roof of a Berwickshire farm.
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Ice crush girl’s condition stable
A farm life museum in Lincolnshire struggles to find a thatcher to repair the roof of one of its buildings.
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Thatcher sought for Lincolnshire museum roof
An 18-year-old student pleads guilty to throwing a fire extinguisher from the roof of a Millbank building during the student fees protests.
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Student guilty over violent demo
Creepy medieval puppets hung from the ceiling on the set of the “Glenn Beck Program” — a conquistador, a squire, a witch, and a bearded guy who looked like a cross between Santa Claus and the Fiddler on the Roof.
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Opinion: Beck’s dangerous hit at Soros
Mr. Fierstein, Broadway’s most recent Tevye, remembers two of the creators of “Fiddler on the Roof.”
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ArtsBeat: Harvey Fierstein on ‘Fiddler’ Creators
A suicide bomber attacked a mosque in northwest Pakistan during prayers, collapsing the roof and killing at least 50 people. A tribal elder who has been encouraging people to oppose the Taliban has a guest room next to the mosque and may have been the…
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Suicide Bomber Kills 50 in Pakistan
Jerry Bock, who composed the scores for some of Broadway’s most famous musicals including Fiddler on the Roof and Fiorello!, dies.
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Fiddler on the Roof composer dies
Playwright Joseph Stein, who wrote hit Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, has died aged 98 in New York.
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Fiddler on the Roof writer dies
Joseph Stein, the author of the play Fiddler on the Roof, died Sunday in New York at the age of 98. He died after fracturing his skull in a fall. Born in the Bronx, Stein worked as a social worker for several years before he met a comedian by chance…
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Tony Winner Joseph Stein Dies at 98
Rapper T.I. helped police persuade a man not to jump off the roof of high-rise hotel roof in Midtown Atlanta Wednesday afternoon, police said.
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Rapper talks man down from hotel roof
