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Dubai's summer is a long, hot stretch. And the migrant workers who keep the city running year-round find brief escape in simple pleasures, even if it is outdoors.

In 1911, 146 people, mostly women and girls, died in a fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City after locked doors and a collapsed fire escape prevented them from fleeing their burning building.

Video footage showed roads turned to rivers and cars, trash cans and many other large items being swept away in high currents.

Historic buildings in Beijing are being demolished in the pursuit of quick profit. Even the home of the architect who urged Mao Zedong to preserve Beijing's old city has fallen to the wreckers' ball, sparking considerable outrage. And the epidemic of destruction is spreading to new buildings, too.

Authorities detained Lander for several hours on Tuesday as he tried to accompany people out of routine immigration court hearings.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

It will take at least another two weeks to determine the winner of Tuesday’s election to decide who will be Peoria’s first new mayor in 16 years.

The competitors in a high-altitude race were racing on an extremely narrow mountain path when hail, freezing rain and gale-force winds hit, catching them off guard.

In the first three months of this year 589 homes, condos, and zero lot line homes have sold in the Bloomington-Normal area, according to the Mid-Illinois Realtors Association. That’s an increase of 25.6%.

The violence is taking many shapes, from Israeli warplanes to Hamas rockets and mobs of Jewish or Palestinian citizens torching cars and beating people.