Federal investigators said this week that the 2021 collapse of the Surfside, Florida, condo building that killed dozens of people stemmed from a structural failure in the pool deck, not the tower itself. The finding is in a study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology on the partial collapse of Champlain Towers South. Ninety-eight people were killed when the building fell on early June 24, 2021. The agency said it used "large-scale structural testing and computer analyses" of vi

An evacuated residential building in Gaza City collapsed after it was hit by an Israeli strike, based on a video obtained by Reuters on Wednesday, September 10, 2025. Two Palestinians were killed and others were wounded when the strike hit the high-rise building in western Gaza City, medics said, adding that the wounded were among people who lived near the 12-floor building. Dozens of families have become displaced again because of the destruction of the building, which also damaged tent encampm