The banks of Windermere in England's Lake District were brought to life in a spectacle of fire, music and dance on Thursday night as the Olympic torch passed through the region. full story ![]()

Spectacular jumper will be allowed to gallop as he likes in the Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival.
telegraph.co.uk (2 months and 17 days ago)
As China celebrates Spring Festival with exuberant displays of fireworks at night, the cost to pay is deteriorating air quality.
china.org.cn (3 months and 9 days ago)
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston bombing suspect who was killed, bought fireworks from a New Hampshire store in February, and authorities are trying to determine whether gunpowder from the fireworks were used in the bombs. CBS News' Don Dahler reports.
cbsnews.com (28 days ago)
When the clock struck twelve on February 9, the eve of the Lunar New Year, city skylines across China lit up with fireworks in celebration of the start of the nation’s biggest holiday, the Spring Festival. And despite efforts to be aware of the massive pollution the fireworks cause, levels of PM2.5 -- especially toxic airborne particles -- are still dangerously high.
ibtimes.com (3 months and 7 days ago)
The cache of seized fireworks was inside a rusted-out, World War II-era bunker in a Honolulu hillside. The explosion that killed the five men working inside the bunker was so spectacular the federal investigators still aren't positive about what happened.
news-herald.com (3 months and 13 days ago)
Ten weeks before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev bought two mortar kits from a New Hampshire fireworks store. Now, as Bob Orr reports, investigators are trying to determine if the brothers used the black powder taken from the fireworks as the explosive in the pressure cooker bombs.
cbsnews.com (29 days ago)

Will.i.am will be performing at the Olympic Park this summer as the international superstar has been confirmed as a special guest for Wireless Festival.
standard.co.uk (22 days ago)
More families may skip the Spring Festival tradition of lighting fireworks next year due to concerns about air pollution, a survey found.
china.org.cn (14 days ago)
Fireworks are dangerous. The Boston Marathon bombers used powder from fireworks to explode their bombs.
lompocrecord.com (10 days ago)

New Hampshire fireworks store told the FBI it sold $400 worth of fireworks to Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
abcnews.com (28 days ago)
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