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The conventional but sophisticated modus operandi used in twin hotel bombings prompted Indonesian officials to suspect one of the nation's most-wanted men, official media reported Saturday.

Explosions tore through two luxury hotels Friday morning in south Jakarta, Indonesia. Antara News, a state-run agency, said at least six people were killed and a number of others were wounded. Police sealed off the area around both blasts, one of which occurred in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and the other at the J.W.

An explosion at a North Carolina food plant led to a roof collapse at the facility, and some employees are trapped inside, fire officials said.

An Air France pilot has declared it "highly likely" that flight AF447 may have been blown up by a terrorist bomb.

Back-to-back explosions shook two markets in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday evening, killing two civilians and wounding 70 others, an official from the deputy police superintendent's office said.

A bomb blast outside a Starbucks coffee shop rattled the early morning Memorial Day quiet of Manhattan's Upper East Side today, shattering windows and triggering the evacuation of 25 apartments.

An explosion at a detonator and dynamite warehouse at a coal mine in central China killed at least 18 people on Friday, according to Xinhua.

Martha Stewart's puppy has died in a propane explosion at a northeastern Pennsylvania kennel. Stewart says on her blog she's "deeply saddened" by the death of her chow, Ghengis Khan, in a blast at Pazzazz Pet Boarding kennel.  Fifteen dogs were killed in the explosion. Two more died over the weekend.

BOISE -- Authorities in Boise say two men suffered burns and injuries when an explosion blew off the back of a home on Boise's north side. Fire investigators say the two victims have been transported to a Salt Lake City...