A damaged valve may have sent tons of water into the basement of the Deutsche Bank tower, keeping it from air-starved firefighters battling the blaze above.
While many countries are seeking to restrict immigration by low-skilled migrants, they are increasingly working to attract those with advanced degrees and scarce skills.
AP - Hurricane Dean pummeled Jamaica on Sunday with gusting winds and torrential rains that blew the roofs off homes, caused landslides and flooded roads.
AP - Six coal miners caught in a cave-in may never be found and could forever be lost to the still-quivering mountain, officials conceded Sunday, abandoning the optimism they've maintained publicly for nearly two weeks.
AP - Afghan police freed a female German hostage from a Kabul neighborhood and arrested a group of kidnappers early Monday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
Families of the six trapped Utah miners blasted those in charge of rescue efforts, accusing them of having "given up" on the missing men. Hours earlier, one of the leaders of the rescue effort said the vestiges of hope are waning. "It's likely that these miners may not be found," said Rob Moore of mine operator Murray Energy.
Hurricane Dean is scraping the southern coast of Jamaica, pounding the island with high winds and surf even as the eye of the Category 4 storm remains offshore. "The winds are extremely, extremely strong," said Ronald Jackson, Jamaica's disaster preparedness director.
Remnants of Tropical Storm Erin turned central Oklahoma into a wash basin Sunday, with rescuers on helicopters plucking people from flood waters and rooftops and ferrying them to safety. Two people died and at least two others were hurt, a spokesman for the state's emergency operations center said.