Subway News
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By AFP
Mexico -
They found Jamai wandering on the tracks of the Mexico City subway, his ear nearly torn off and a terrified look in his eyes.The shaggy brown mutt could have been run over or electrocuted.
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By AFP
Shanghai -
Deep under Shanghai, workers on a flood-lit construction rig carefully install massive concrete wall sections for a new subway tunnel, adding metre-by-metre to the world's longest metro system.
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The sandwich franchise has announced its intention to sue the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation alleging the network aired a program falsely claiming the company’s chicken contains around 50 percent soy. The CBC refuses to retract its claim or apologize
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The ex-wife of former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle launched a lawsuit against the sandwich company. Katie McLaughlin claims Subway learned years ago her husband was a pedophile but failed to report him to police or do anything about it.
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By AFP
Seoul -
A passenger was crushed to death Wednesday after getting stuck between a subway train and a platform screen door in South Korea.
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The Toronto city council met for a key debate on transit projects yesterday. While many issues were on the table — including Smart Track and the Downtown Relief Line (DRL) — the main focus was the question of the Scarborough subway station.
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Toronto -
A power outage sparked by a fire early Tuesday wreaked havoc on Toronto's transit lines, turning the morning commute into a slow crawl.
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Indianapolis -
Former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle was sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison Thursday for allegedly trading in child pornography and having sex with underage prostitutes.
He was also sentenced to lifetime supervision.
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London -
London Underground's network of tube trains is in danger of becoming too fast and efficient. A report urges the network to follow the example of the New York subway.
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Moscow -
McDonald's, the biggest burger chain in the world, is expanding its customer reach to the ends of the globe, or at least to Siberia. The fast-food giant is extending its corporate dominance despite the strained relationship between the U.S. and Russia.
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Florida ex-reporter Rochelle Herman claims that she helped the FBI investigate Jared Fogle by secretly taping private conversations she had with the Subway pitchman.
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Indianapolis -
Subway sandwich pitchman Jared Fogle faces as long as 12 years in prison after offering to plead guilty to child pornography and other sex charges.
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New York City -
Scientists have found Oriental rat fleas, the insects that can carry plague bacteria, on New York City-dwelling rodents.
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A new study has shown that New York City's subway system is crowded with microbes that are resistant to two widely used antibiotics.
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New York -
Researchers have found that the New York City subway system infested with dangerous microorganisms and bacteria, some potentially deadly to human beings.
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New York City -
A little girl whose happiness couldn't be smothered by the detached gloom of commuters in cold weather was able to warm bundled up adult bodies and liven spirits at Bedford Avenue L Subway Station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn recently.
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New York -
Most of us don't expect to be arrested while doing something that's perfectly legal, but that's what happened to a musician playing his guitar on a subway platform in New York.
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New York City -
A terrifying report from the New York Daily News claims that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's subway bedbug issue is more widespread than officials are willing to admit.
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Seattle -
Police in West Seattle are looking for a man who removed a toilet at a Subway restaurant on Sunday night. He also trashed the bathroom.
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New York -
A piece of subway track that snapped and caused a derailment that injured 19 people under New York City on Friday was new and had been installed just weeks before the accident, officials said Saturday.
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By AFP
Seoul -
Two subway trains collided in Seoul on Friday, lightly injuring 200 people and further undermining public confidence just weeks after South Korea's ferry disaster claimed the lives of hundreds of schoolchildren.
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Although there are no commercial breaks in video games, there is no shortage of advertising and product placement within the gaming world.
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Fast-food sandwich giant Subway, one of the world's biggest bakers, will remove an internationally banned chemical used to make shoe rubber from its bread following the launch of a food blogger's petition.
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New York -
Run DMC's Jam Master Jay will always be remembered as one of the most influential DJs in the history of hip-hop, and judging from a recent ride on a New York City subway, it looks like Jay passed his skills onto his son.
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Madrid -
Commonly called the "No Pants Subway Ride", the idea apparently started in New York in 2002, and has caught on and become an annual event in Madrid, Spain.
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Madrid -
While the fact that it was Monday morning was quite bad enough, at 9:40 a.m. Madrid time, one of the subway trains on Madrid metro line 5 ground to a halt for over an hour-and-a-half, trapping the commuters inside, sometimes in the pitch dark.
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New York -
The dead shark that was found riding the N train in NYC Wednesday morning started his journey on the beaches of Coney Island.
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New York -
The answer is nothing too bad. Scientists have found that the microbial population in the air of the New York City subway system is close to the air on the city streets.
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New York -
A man was electrocuted early Friday morning at the Times Square subway station when he jumped onto the tracks and touched the electrified third rail, police said.
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The story of a gay couple who adopted a baby they found abandoned in a Manhattan subway station 12 years ago has touched the hearts of thousands. Peter Mercurio tells the story in a New York Times Opinionator article "We Found Our Son in the Subway."
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Subway Image
Subway train Flickr/Geoff Stearns
A barge full of old New York City subway cars pass under the George Washington Bridge in 2002, on the way to become an artificial reef. ArnoldReinhold/Wikimedia Commons
Passengers without their pants during the "No Pants Subway Ride" event at a subway station in Paris. The event is an annual flash mob and occurs in different cities around the world in January, according to its organisers With permission by Reuters / Benoit Tessier
Police photo of Zachary Torrance,18. Hueytown Police Department
An entrance to the 42nd Street - Times Square subway station in Times Square, Midtown Manhattan. The Times Square station is the busiest in the New York City subway system. The station served 60,604,822 persons in 2011. Uris
The 2013 World No Pants Subway Ride in Sydney.
Sao Paulo Subway train at the station. Diego Torres
A violinist on the subway in Rome Digital Journal
YouTube screengrab / EITANNOYZE
Passengers without their pants during the "No Pants Subway Ride" event at a subway station in Paris. The event is an annual flash mob and occurs in different cities around the world in January, according to its organisers With permission by Reuters / Benoit Tessier
A subway station in NYC is covered with snow after a powerful blizzard pounds the city Dan Nguyen NY
Christopher knafelc YouTube
On the platform of Toronto's subway station Bobolink
Moscow: Street dog riding the subway AlphaTangoBravo / Adam Baker
Subway sandwich Simon Shek / Flickr / Creative Commons
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