Six of 19 hot-air balloon victims identified: Egypt forensics chief

The bodies of six of the 19 tourists who died on Tuesday in a hot-air balloon crash in the Upper Egyptian city of Luxor have been identified, according to Egypt's forensic chief Ihsan Kameel Georgie....

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Hong Kong forensic experts to examine bodies of Egypt balloon accident victims

Hong Kong’s forensic experts will soon examine the bodies of nine Hong Kong tourists who died in a hot-air balloon accident earlier this week. The experts – including a forensic pathologist and a...

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No bodies, no compensation for heirs

Several months have passed since the fire erupted at the garment factory in Baldia Town, but dozens of families are still waiting for the victims’ bodies as well as for the compensation amounting to...

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Website for international dental charts: terms, symbols and/or abbreviations summarized in 10 languages

Very useful website by Scheila Manica (http://www.internationaldentalcharts.com/) This website is a result of her M.Sc project on international dental charts: Guide of International Dental Charts translated...

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Death toll in Winneba road accident rises to 14

Two victims of last Saturday’s fatal accident at Gomoa Mampong who sustained severe injuries have died. That brings the death toll to 14. The deceased, both males, were among five injured persons...

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Families arriving in Egypt to ID balloon crash victims

Relatives of some of the western and Asian tourists killed in a balloon accident arrived in Egypt on Wednesday to identify the bodies of the victims, airport officials said. Nineteen tourists died...

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At least 35 killed in Mwingi bus crash

At least 35 people have been killed in a road accident in Mwingi on Wednesday morning. The accident involved a Garissa-bound bus which lost control and rolled several times at about 3am, according...

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Texas overtakes Ariz. in border crossing deaths

The new scrutiny of South Texas by a civil-rights group focused on identifying the bodies of illegal border crossers underscores a geographical shift: Texas is overtaking Arizona in migrant deaths....

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Mexico Drug War: Missing Persons Total At 26,121, Government Says

An official count shows at least 26,121 people were reported missing during the term of President Felipe Calderon, who launched the country's offensive against drug cartels, Mexico's new administration...

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Progress in battle to ID lost graves in Plaquemines Parish

It was one of the more morbid aspects of the damage done by Hurricane Isaac -- dozens of caskets in Plaquemines Parish left lying on levees, roads, and farmland after being washed away from cemeteries....

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Fire in Kolkata market: 19 killed, 50 injured

At least 19 people were killed and 50 people sustained serious burn injuries as a massive fire engulfed Surya Sen market in central Kolkata's Sealdah area early today. The death toll may further go...

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Minibus Plunges off Cliff in SW China, 7 Killed

Seven people have been confirmed dead and another two injured after a minibus fell from a mountain highway in southwest China's Guizhou Province on Tuesday, local police said. The minibus carrying...

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Egypt hot air balloon crash kills 18 tourists

A hot air balloon flying over Egypt's ancient city of Luxor has caught fire and crashed into a sugar cane field, killing at least 18 foreign tourists, a security official says. It was one of the...

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Three more bodies recovered from nullah

The death toll from the Friday’s bus accident rose to 22 as three more bodies were recovered by rescuers here on Sunday. Around eight children were still missing, according to the officials of the...

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Thames Valley Police making progress on mystery bodies

Investigations into eight unidentified bodies across the Thames Valley have generated inquiries across Europe, Canada and England. Thames Valley Police's Operation Nightingale was launched in December...

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North Korea's 18 state sanctioned female hairstyles, men get 10

Men and women in North Korea may not be able to cut their hair in trendy, new styles, as the country has launched a campaign allowing women to choose from 18 different “officially sanctioned” hairstyles,...

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Nigeria: Truck Kills Eight On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

Eight persons died on Sunday along Ibadan-Lagos Expressway when the commercial vehicle conveying them rammed into a truck. Witnesses say the crash, which occurred in Mowe area of the expressway,...

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Whose bones made it home from the Vietnam War?

A mass grave was dug up this month dedicated to the crew of an EC-47Q reconnaissance plane at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in Missouri. The electronic surveillance plane left Pleiku Airbase...

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Hoping for closure, families bury unidentified dead

Five months after the Baldia factory blaze, the bodies of 17 unidentified victims were buried at the KMC graveyard near the Hub River Road on Sunday. According to court orders, government officials...

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10 Killed, 17 Injured as tropical cyclone hits Madagascar

Tropical cyclone Haruna and rains that lashed the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar killed 10 people and affected nearly 3 000 this week, the disaster management agency said Saturday. The cyclone...

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17 unclaimed bodies buried 5 months after Pakistan factory fire that killed 259

A Pakistani government official says authorities have buried 17 bodies that were never claimed after a factory fire killed 259 workers five months ago. Ghanwar Leghari says the bodies were buried...

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After Fukushima: families on the edge of meltdown

Perhaps one day Aiko and Kenji Nomura will laugh about the Birthday Cake Incident. It happened last autumn. Aiko, a care worker from the city of Koriyama in Japan's Fukushima prefecture, was celebrating...

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15 dead in Cianjur road accident

The police report that 15 people have died in a road accident in Cianjur, West Java, after a truck loaded with lubricants experienced a failure in braking system, hitting two small city buses, some...

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10 killed in home collapse caused by explosion in south Vietnam

A total of seven people were confirmed dead and three went missing after three houses in a small alley in south Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City's District 3 collapsed following two explosions at dawn...

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UN Urged To Probe Matale Grave

The United Nations (UN) has been called to assist in the investigations into the mass grave unearthed in Matale last year. In a written statement submitted to the UN Human Rights Council, ahead...

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Bus accident death toll reaches 19

Death toll from the Friday’s bus accident rose to 19 as four bodies were recovered on Saturday from the flooded nullah where the vehicle taking people to a wedding party had fallen, rescuers said....

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No bodies found in capsized NS fishing boat

A local dive team did not find any bodies during a search of the capsized Miss Ally off the coast of Nova Scotia, RCMP announced Saturday evening. Police said the captain of a private fishing boat,...

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Bus plunges into canal, at least 13 dead

At least 13 people, including women and children, were killed and another 12 injured when a passenger bus plunged into a canal in Badhu Samarbagh village on Friday afternoon. Thirteen bodies have...

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Eleven people die in accident on Winneba-Accra road

Eleven people died on the spot and seven others sustained injuries when a 207 Benz Bus on which they were traveling for a funeral collided with a heavy duty tipper truck at Gomoa Mampong, near Okyere,...

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Heroes to the rescue

The first three months of 2011 were an acid test for the Australian Capital Territory's 16-year-old urban search and rescue capability. In early January two USAR 2-trained ACT Fire and Rescue members, Mark Johansen and Peter Fitzgerald, were sent to Queensland's Lockyer Valley as part of the joint NSW/ACT response to that emergency. A little more than a month later, nine Canberra search and rescue volunteers were sent to New Zealand in response to the earthquake that rocked Christchurch on February 22. Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/heroes-to-the-rescue-20130222-2exc5.html#ixzz2LdsVi4Yc Part of the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquake. Then, on March 11, 2011, while rescuers were still on the ground in Christchurch, a magnitude 9 earthquake devastated the north-east of Japan, causing a tsunami that peaked at 40.5 metres in some areas. Canberra's first Urban Search and Rescue course was conducted...

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