A fast moving fire raged through two New Jersey beach towns on Thursday, reducing dozens of business along the boardwalk to rubble, Reuters reported. Flames erupted at a frozen custard stand in Seaside Park on Thursday afternoon, and blazed out of control for hours.
"The 2000 Bronze is back in possession of usolympics and will be in Switzerland asap to Olympics," disgraced 7-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong wrote on Twitter. In early 2013, the committee stripped Armstrong of the medal he won in Sydney and asked him to return it.
With new safety measures in place, the Texas Giant roller coaster at Six Flags Over Texas, is set to reopen two months after Rosa Esparza plunged to her death on the ride on July 19. Some of the new measures include "redesigned restraint bar pads, new seat belts and a coaster seat at the ride's entrance for visitors to test their fit before they get it line,"
Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday, in an effort to seek a diplomatic breakthrough in the continuing crisis in Syria, NBC News reported. Thursday's meeting was hastily set up after Kerry announced, somewhat off-handedly, on Monday that the Assad government may be able to avoid a military strike by the U.S. if it turned over all its chemical weapons within a week. That unusually delivered proposal was soon endorsed by his Russian counterpart.
