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KOREAN INTERPRETER AIDING POLICE NEGOTIATIONS WITH MAN AT SYDNEY HIGH-RISE
Rohan Pulakhandam, who works at the nearby Hoyts cinema, saw the man on the balcony roof after 11am... READ MORE›
CHARITY ATTACKS SYSTEM OF 'SELF-ACCOMMODATION' FOR HOMELESS FAMILIES
Homeless families should not have to find their own emergency housing in Ireland, a leading support charity said... READ MORE›
WE MUST BUILD UPWARDS TO HALT SPRAWL
On restrictions for high-rise apartment complexes, Mr Murphy said he intended to lift the caps in city centres and along key public transport corridors... READ MORE›
FIRE TREATED AS SUSPICIOUS AFTER MOTHER AND CHILDREN SERIOUSLY INJURED
Fire treated as suspicious after mother and children seriously..... READ MORE›
LONDON FIRE-PROBE CHIEF: SURVIVORS FEEL 'ANGER AND BETRAYAL'
At the end of Moore-Bick's opening statement, Michael Mansfield, a lawyer for some of the survivors, stood and tried to ask a question... READ MORE›
LONDON FIRE PROBE CHIEF: SURVIVORS FEEL 'ANGER AND BETRAYAL'
One aspect of the investigation will be the role of combustible aluminum cladding installed during a refurbishment to the 1970s tower block... READ MORE›
GRENFELL FIRE INQUIRY OPENS AMID SENSE OF ANGER AND BETRAYAL
The London police have mentioned reasonable grounds to suspect that organizations managing Grenfell Tower had committed corporate manslaughter... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : High-rise
GRIEF GIVES WAY TO ANGER AS GRENFELL TOWER RESIDENTS DEMAND ANSWERS OVER STRING OF FAILURES
London fire latest Grief gives way to anger as Grenfell tower residents demand answers over string of failures... READ MORE›
12 DEAD IN LONDON HIGHRISE INFERNO, POLICE BELIEVE DEATH TOLL 'WILL SADLY INCREASE'
The London Fire Brigade received the first reports of the fire at 12 54 a.m... READ MORE›
'EVERYTHING IS DESTROYED': A DEADLY SURGE OF VIOLENCE STRIKES EASTERN UKRAINE
A woman speaks on her cellphone amid the ruins of a building after shelling in Donetsk, near Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, on Feb. 3... READ MORE›
GRENFELL TOWER: CANDLELIT VIGIL FOR VICTIMS AFTER GRIEF TURNED TO ANGER AT EARLIER PROTESTSA
The posting said At least 12 people have died in the fire at Grenfell Tower... READ MORE›
MAN JAILED FOR DANGLING BABY FROM WINDOW IN ALGERIA
The father dangled his baby out of a window in a high-rise building to attract likes on Facebook... READ MORE›
AMERICA NEEDS SMALL APARTMENT BUILDINGS. NOBODY BUILDS THEM
But the best reason is that smaller apartment buildings are often cheaper for renters... READ MORE›
LONDON FIRES DEATH TOLL RISES TO 30; SOME VICTIMS MIGHT NEVER BE IDENTIFIED
Government officials have also promised to provide housing for displaced residents of Grenfell Tower... READ MORE›
DEATH TOLL TO RISE AFTER GLENFELL TOWER FIRE
In the adjoining Notting Hill and Kensington areas, churches and mosques opened up their doors to donations of food, nappies, toys, sanitary products, and clothes... READ MORE›
LONDON FIRE: WITNESS RECALLS SEEING MAN CATCH BABY
Smoke rises from an apartment building in west London... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 6 KILLED, 50 INJURED AS FIRE ENGULFS 24-STOREY LONDON APARTMENT BUILDING
Flames shot from windows all the way up the 24-story Grenfell Tower in North Kensington as more than 200 firefighters battled the blaze... READ MORE›
'THE FIRE IS HERE NOW, GOODBYE'
London tower fire First victim named as Syrian refugee Mohammad al-Haj Ali... READ MORE›
75 OUT OF 75 HIGH-RISES IN BRITAIN FAIL FIRE SAFETY TESTS
Damage to Grenfell Tower is seen following the catastrophic fire in west London... READ MORE›
AUTHORITIES CONFIRM FATALITIES AFTER MASSIVE FIRE ENGULFS LONDON APARTMENT BLOCK
London's Fire Commissioner Dany Cotton has confirmed people were killed when a fire engulfed an entire apartment building in Kensington... READ MORE›
GRENFELL TOWER: CLADDING MATERIAL LINKED TO FIRE PULLED FROM SALE WORLDWIDE
Arconic discontinues Reynobond PE, an element of cladding linked to the London blaze, for use in high-rise buildings... READ MORE›
AFTER LONDON FIRE CLADDING ON 600 HIGH RISES IS BEING TESTED
Safety checks after the deadly blaze at the 24-story Grenfell Tower have so far found three other buildings clad in potentially combustible materials... READ MORE›
IN U.K., ALL 75 BUILDINGS TESTED SO FAR FOR FIRE SAFETY HAVE FAILED
Thousands face evacuation as the authorities race to see how many high-rises have been wrapped in the same combustible cladding as that at Grenfell Tower... READ MORE›
VIENNA PLANS WORLD'S TALLEST WOODEN SKYSCRAPER
We have wood, which is a perfect construction material for building, she said... READ MORE›
FIRE HAZARDS FORCE EVACUATION OF 5 LONDON HIGH RISES
Derek Myers, who was the chief executive of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in 2013, when Grenfell Tower was renovated, also resigned from the board... READ MORE›
THE LONDON FIRE WHAT WE KNOW
Grenfell Tower's management company carried out an overhaul of the fire safety system only last year, considering it a model for its many properties... READ MORE›
BACKLASH AS JOHN MCDONNELL CLAIMS BLAZE VICTIMS 'MURDERED BY POLITICAL DECISIONS'
Grenfell fire Backlash as John McDonnell claims blaze victims 'murdered by political decisions'... READ MORE›
LONDON FIRE: MAN CATCHES BABY DROPPED FROM 10TH FLOOR OF TOWER
The windows were slightly ajar, a woman was gesturing that she was about to throw her baby and if somebody could catch her baby... READ MORE›
EVACUATED LONDON RESIDENTS TRY TO COPE
On Thursday, there was confusion about the number of tower blocks thought to have hazardous cladding similar to Grenfell Tower's... READ MORE›
27 PUBLIC HOUSING APARTMENT BUILDINGS FAIL SAFETY CHECKS
Thousands of residents in a northwest London housing estate have been forced to leave their apartments after fire checks found the buildings to be unsafe... READ MORE›
THERESA MAY ORDERS PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO LONDON TOWER FIRE AS DEATH TOLL RISES TO 17
In March this year fire experts warned that a government delay in reviewing building regulations could be endangering tower blocks throughout the UK... READ MORE›
'STRINGENT PROVISIONS ARE IN PLACE': CANADIAN CITIES WELL PREPARED FOR HIGHRISE FIRES, SAY FIRE OFFICIALS
Under the building code, very, very stringent regulations, very stringent provisions are in place, Toronto Fire Chief Matthew Pegg told CBC's News Network on Wednesday... READ MORE›
GOVERNMENT 'FACES A?600M CLADDING SAFETY BILL AFTER GRENFELL TOWER DISASTER'
The Government faces an estimated bill of more than ?600m for replacing flammable cladding on housing blocks after the Grenfell Tower disaster... READ MORE›
LONDON POLICE CONFIRM DEADLY HIGH-RISE FIRE BEGAN IN AN APARTMENT FRIDGE
Later, authorities began evacuating families from a housing project in north London that has exterior cladding similar to that used on the stricken Grenfell Tower... READ MORE›
LONDON PROTESTERS STORM COUNCIL HQ AS FIRE DEATH TOLL REACHES 30
A second victim named Friday was Khadija Saye, a 24-year-old photographer who had exhibited at the Venice Biennale... READ MORE›
LONDON FIRE: RESIDENTS KILLED, DOZENS INJURED IN 'HORRIFIC' GRENFELL TOWER BLAZE
Fire safety engineer Stephen Kip said combustible cladding could help a blaze spread up the facade of building, starting fires on many floors... READ MORE›
AFTER LONDON FIRE, GOVERNMENT ORDERS TESTS ON 600 HIGH-RISE APARTMENT BUILDINGS
Investigators are looking at whether the exterior coverings, known as cladding, fed the fast-moving blaze at the Grenfell Tower... READ MORE›