Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, an American engineering treasure and widely recognized symbol of the grandeur of the United States, began amid civic pride, pomp and circumstance on this day in history, Jan. 5, 1933. “The start of
close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for December 10 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. A temporary elevator crashed to the ground on a building site in Stockholm Monday, seriously injuring several people, Swedish
Construction of a 1.9 billion-euro ($2.05 billion) section of an electricity cable that will connect the power grids of Greece and Cyprus is slated to begin in the new year, officials said Thursday. An eventual extension of the renamed Great Sea Interconnector
The Washington Monument, a soaring tribute in the heart of the nation’s capital to George Washington, whose Abrahamic faith in American independence earned him the eternal distinction of Father of His Country, was completed on this day in history, Dec. 6, 1884.
The Slovak government signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday with Chinese electric vehicle battery maker Gotion High-Tech and its local partner, InoBat, to build a car battery plant in Slovakia. SLOVAK PM LOOKS TO CURB MIGRATION BY DEPLOYING FORCES TO HUNGARIAN
Four Bulgarian construction workers died when scaffolding fell down an elevator shaft inside a building site in Hamburg on Monday and another suffered life-threatening injuries, German authorities said. There was no immediate word on why the scaffolding collapsed from the eighth floor,
Rebels in Indonesia’s restive Papua province killed a construction worker and seriously injured three others in an attack at a construction site, police said Friday. Nineteen other workers were unharmed “but experienced trauma” from the attack, which occurred on Thursday, according to
A French nun fed up with a group of protesters tackled one of the demonstrators after he tried to run off with what appeared to be piping materials. The nun was part of a congregation of sisters from the Missionary Family of
A Thai construction magnate whose conviction on wildlife poaching charges became a rare example of the rich and influential facing justice in the country was freed Tuesday on parole, two months before his prison term ends, authorities said. Premchai Karnasuta, chairman of
A gas explosion at a highway construction site in Romania early Thursday killed four people and injured five, emergency authorities said. The blast happened around 1 a.m. near the eastern town of Calimanesti, said the emergency office in a statement. It was