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A strong 6.7 magnitude earthquake in central Japan left 39 people injured, seven seriously, and wrecked homes in a popular ski resort, the government said on Sunday. (Photo: AP)- As a budding young artist, Hitler applied to the Vienna Academy of Art but was rejected. He continued to paint however, copying images from postcards that he sold to tourists. Experts consider his work to be of mediocre quality and the larger
- Nuremberg's Weidler auction house says the painting was one some 2,000 painted by Adolf Hitler and is thought to be from about 1914, when he was struggling to make a living as an artist, almost two decades before rising to power as the Nazi dictator
- A 100-year-old water-color of Munich's city hall by Adolf Hitler, which was expected to fetch at least 50,000 euros ($60,000) at auction this weekend, went under the hammer for 130,000 euros. (Photo: AP)
- A Druze man watches as others surround the flag draped coffin during the funeral of Druze Israeli police officer Zidan Sif in the Druze village of Yanuh-Jat, northern Israel. (Photo: AP)
- A Palestinian uses a slingshot to throws back a tear gas canister that was fired by Israeli troops during clashes with Israeli soldiers, outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Photo: AP)
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack, the first time he has done so in the wave of deadly violence against Israelis. But he also called for an end to Israeli "provocations" surrounding Jerusalem's shrines that are sacred to both
- Two Palestinian cousins wielding meat cleavers, knives and a handgun carried out the attack during morning prayers in the west Jerusalem neighbourhood of Har Nof. They were shot to death by police after the deadliest assault in the holy city since
- Israel vowed harsh retaliation Tuesday for a Palestinian attack that killed five people and left blood-smeared prayer books and shawls on the floor of a synagogue in Jerusalem, an assault that sharply escalated already-high tensions after weeks of
- Meteorologists say temperatures in all 50 states fell to freezing or below on Tuesday. They say the low temperatures were more reminiscent of January than November. (Photo: AP)
- In New Hampshire and elsewhere, icy roads led to accidents. Lake-effect storms in Michigan produced gale-force winds and as much as 18 inches of snow, and canceled several flights at the Grand Rapids airport. (Photo: AP)
- Snow covers the roof at Schmidt's Collision and Glass after it collapsed after taking on heavy snow during this week's lake-effect snowstorms. (Photo: AP)
- Mark Petrik and Dennis Smith dig out their south Buffalo driveway on Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014, in Buffalo, N.Y. Western New York continues to dig out from the heavy snow dropped by this week by lake-effect snowstorms. (Photo: AP)
- Four people have reportedly died during a storm that dumped more than 4 feet of snow around Buffalo and forced motorists in 150 vehicles, including a women's basketball team, to ride it out on a day when temperatures dropped to freezing or below in
- A taxi stops by a crack on the road that leads to Hakuba from Nagano, Nagano Prefecture, after a strong earthquake hit central Japan. (Photo: AP)
- All 21 people trapped under collapsed houses were rescued, with two of them injured, the National Police Agency told Japan's Kyodo news agency. Japanese television showed police going house to house Sunday morning, calling out to make sure that
- This aerial photo shows houses collapsed after a strong earthquake hit Hakuba, Nagano prefecture, central Japan, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014. (Photo: AP)
- The magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck shortly after 10 p.m. (1300 GMT) Saturday west of Nagano city at a depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles), the Japan Meteorological Agency said. (Photo: AP)
- Helicopter surveys on Sunday showed more extensive damage than earlier thought from an overnight earthquake in the mountainous central Japan area. (Photo: AP)
A strong 6.7 magnitude earthquake in central Japan left 39 people injured, seven seriously, and wrecked homes in a popular ski resort, the government said on Sunday. (Photo: AP)
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