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An explosion at France's Marcoule nuclear plant on Monday has left at least one dead and three injured. As of 2 p.m. local time, there had been no radioactive leak, but there is a leak risk and authorities have set up a protective perimeter around the plant.

Like the fictitious time bomb in the Hollywood blockbuster Speed, rigged to blow up the bus in which it was planted it slowed below 50 mph, some white dwarf stars when slowed down from their rapid spins may explode as supernova, astronomers say.

Astronomers at the Mount Palomar Observatory in California has claimed that their robotic telescope has detected what could be regarded as the supernova of a generation - a type la of supernova that resulted from the violent explosion of an old star twenty-one million years ago.

The 7 billionth baby, according to the United Nations population division, is set to be born on October 31 this year during the Halloween.

A suicide attack at a mosque near Afghan border in Pakistan killed 48 people attending Friday prayers and injured as many as 85.

Several thermal anomalies were observed in satellite views of Alaska's Cleveland volcano over the past 24 hours, but the Alaska Volcano Observatory said Sunday it had received no additional information or observations about activity.

Three large solar explosions from the Sun are threatening to cause chaos on earth, with energy from the release potentially shutting down communications systems and power grids across the world.

An 18 year old girl was forced to wear an elaborate and sophisticated bomb device around her neck after an assailant broke into the teenager's home. Police spent the next 10 hours working to free the Australian teen from the live device preventing detonation and perhaps saving hundreds of lives in the wealthy Sydney town.

Norwegian police confirmed Saturday morning that they had arrested Anders Behring Breivik, 32, a suspect identified as right wing Christian fundamentalist who is responsible for both the bombing and the youth camp shooting rampage in Oslo, Norway Friday.

An explosion shook the capital of Norway Friday afternoon.

Images captured on video just moments after an explosion at a government building in Oslo took place show a nearly desolate area with lots of debris strewn on the ground.

Terrorist attacks in Oslo's central government district and a nearby youth camp have killed over 80 people Friday. The current death toll represents a shocking surge from the initial 10 reported dead in the explosion earlier today.

Was the Friday blast at Norway's political HQ a political act?

Norway's Prime Minister has promised to find the guilty and hold them responsible.

A 32-year-old Norwegian man was taken into custody Friday following two attacks on that killed approximately 17 people.

A bomb rocked downtown Oslo Friday and a gunman opened fire on a children's camp run by Norway's Labor Party. At least seventeen people were killed in the attacks.

Two are reported killed and several more injured in a bomb at an Oslo government building. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is unharmed, but the terror threat level has been increased.

At least two are dead

A large explosion in Norway has killed two people Friday.

The explosion damaged Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's office, causing most of his office windows to break. At least eight people were hurt or injured and at least one person was killed, according to the local media NRK.

An explosion occurred at government headquarters in Oslo, Friday.