Shortly after midnight, a runaway oil train thundered toward the town of Lac-Mégantic. Traveling six times above the speed limit, the train derailed in the center of town and exploded. Massive ...

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No personnel were harmed in the incident, the company said on social media, calling the explosion an ‘anomaly’ Nasa’s plans to build a lunar base and return humans to the moon in the next two years ...