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PASADENA, Maryland – A large tree overturned in a separate garage in a Maryland neighborhood where people attending a boy’s birthday party sought shelter from a storm and sent 19 people to hospitals on Sunday afternoon, they said. The authorities. Anne Arundel County Fire Department spokesman Russ Davies said one …

Elton John has been honored with his own official UK currency. The Royal Mint announced the award, marking the second installment of its “Music Legends” collection (the first coin was minted in honor of Queen). “It really is a fabulous honor to be recognized in this way,” Elton John said …

Algeria buried the remains of 24 resistance fighters who returned from Paris after more than a century and a half, as it marked the 58th anniversary of their independence from France. The skulls of the fighters, shot and beheaded in the early years of the French occupation, were buried on …

Rochester, NY – A statue of abolitionist Frederick Douglass was ripped from its Rochester base on the anniversary of one of its most famous speeches, delivered in the city in 1852. Police said the statue was taken Sunday from Maplewood Park, a site along the subway where Douglass and Harriet …

Chinese vessels reached less than 4 km from the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, known in China as the Diaoyu Islands, well beyond the international 12-mile (19.3-kilometer) limit that defines a country’s territorial waters, the Japanese coast Guard said. Japanese Cabinet Chief Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tokyo has made repeated diplomatic protests …