Bodies of 13 immigrants wash up on shore of Italy after boat smuggling 200 migrants from Africa runs aground

The bodies of 13 immigrants have washed up on the coast of Sicily after a boat carrying 200 people ran aground as it approached the shore. When the boat ran into difficulties in rough seas near...

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Mumbai building collapse: confusion over bodies

Several families were unable to identify the bodies of their near and dear ones at JJ Hospital because they had swelled up and unrecognisable. Lack of coordination between the hospital and the cops...

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Private jet bursts into flames after 'unsurvivable' crash on runway

A private jet has exploded into flames after sliding off the runway in Santa Monica, California, Sunday night in a crash that authorities are calling 'unsurvivable.' Smoke could been seen billowing...

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Nigeria boat capsize (update) : 42 bodies recovered

Over 40 persons are feared dead after a boat carrying about 150 traders and wedding guests capsized last Friday in River Niger, about four kilomtres offshore near Malale village in Borgu local government...

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Mexico's disappeared continues to rise

A helicopter with five people on board crashed near Murbad, about 75km from Mumbai, on Sunday morning. All the five, including two pilots, were found dead. The Bell 212 helicopter took off from...

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Typhoon Wutip: Many missing as Chinese boats sink

At least 70 people have been reported missing after a typhoon caused three fishing boats to sink in the South China Sea, Chinese state media say. Five boats carrying more than 150 people encountered...

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33 bodies found in Indonesian boat sinking

Rescuers have found 33 dead bodies and keep searching for dozens of others feared missing after the sinking of an Australian-bound asylum seeker boat off West Java island, Indonesia, on Friday, local...

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Many still missing in ferry accident

The death toll from the sinking of an Australia-bound asylum seeker boat off Indonesia's main Java island rose to 28 on Sunday, with many more still feared missing, police said. "We found seven...

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Rare picture shows priest praying over Titanic victims before they are buried at sea

They were gathered nine days after the 'unsinkable' liner had gone down in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of 1,512 lives. And this haunting black and white photograph taken on board one of the...

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Indian officials call off search for bodies in building collapse

Officials in the Indian city of Mumbai have called off their search for more bodies following the collapse of a five-storey apartment building and say the final death toll stands at 60. Mumbai deputy...

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42 dead, 100 missing in Nigeria river boat accident

A boat overloaded with passengers and goods travelling on the Niger River in central Nigeria has capsized, killing 42 people with 100 others missing, the state rescue agency told Agence France-Presse...

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Mumbai building collapse death toll rises to 42

At least 42 people are now known to have died when a four-storey residential building collapsed in the western Indian city of Mumbai. Some 33 survivors have so far been pulled from the rubble of...

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Victims Memorial in Spain Awaits Names of the Dead

A pyramid is being built in the old San Rafael cemetery in the southern Spanish city of Málaga – a monument to thousands of people shot by firing squads here during the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War...

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Another quake jolts shattered Balochistan district, kills 15

At least 15 people were killed Saturday when a powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Balochistan in a region already devastated by a massive quake earlier this week, officials said. The most...

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Indonesia rescuers search for dozens missing after asylum seeker boat sinks

Rescuers battled strong currents and high waves Saturday while searching for dozens of people missing and feared dead one day after a boat carrying asylum seekers sank off the coast of Indonesia's...

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Georgia: Two decades later, still searching for the missing

The last time 76-year-old Venera Oshoridze saw her son, Kakha, was September 15, 1993. A pensive 20-year-old who loved his friends, his mother’s fried potatoes, and dreamed of going to college,...

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20 dead, many missing, as asylum-seeker boat sinks off Indonesia

At least 20 people, mostly children, drowned and scores are missing after an Australia-bound boat carrying Middle Eastern asylum-seekers sank off Indonesia, police said on Friday. Twenty-five people...

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Mont Blanc climber finds £205,000 worth of Indian jewels believed to be from plane crash on glacier

It was an unexpected find for the young French alpinist as he approached the summit of Mont Blanc. Poking out of the ice and snow on the shoulder of western Europe's highest mountain was a metal box...

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Kenya shopping mall attack: UK forensic teams lend expertise to search through Westgate rubble

Britain, the US and Israel are among the five nations sending their own forensic experts to help search the rubble of the Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi to find and identify the bodies of those...

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Pacific Southwest Airlines' Flight 182 disaster marks 35th anniversary

Wednesday marked 35 years since 144 people lost their lives in the PSA Flight 182 disaster. While flying over San Diego in 1978, Pacific Southwest Airlines’ Boeing 727 collided with a Cessna mid-air. The...

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Death toll rises to 356 in quake-hit Balochistan, rescue plagued by militant attacks

The death toll from a massive earthquake that jolted southwest Pakistan rose to 356 on Thursday, with officials saying that thousands have been left homeless and about 300,000 people had been affected...

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Somaliland: National Massacre Investigations Committee appeals for support

Citizens have been asked to deter from establishing homesteads or settling in known sites of mass graves anywhere in the country. According to the National Massacre Investigations Committee-NMIC...

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Up to 70 feared trapped in Mumbai building collapse

A five-storey residential building collapsed in Mumbai at daybreak on Friday in the latest accident in India's financial capital, with up to 70 feared trapped inside. Crowds formed around the rubble...

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19 killed in bus accident in Sirmaur district of Himachal

Nineteen people were killed and another critically injured when a bus rolled down a 600-feet deep gorge near Ransua-Jabrog village in Sirmaur district on Friday morning. The bus with 20 passengers...

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13 drown, seven missing in Rukwa boat accident

At least 13 people drowned and seven others are missing after a boat they were sailing in capsized near Kasere Village in Kalambo District, Rukwa Region, on Lake Tanganyika on Wednesday, police said....

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Update Costa Concordia: Divers discover human remains in shipwreck

Divers have discovered what they believe to be two bodies amid the wreckage of the Costa Concordia. A 19-hour salvage operation began to upright the wreckage last week after the ship struck rocks...

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Remains found on Costa Concordia

Human remains have been found on the wrecked Costa Concordia, possibly answering what happened to the last two missing passengers of the cruise liner that ran aground off Italy's Giglio Island in 2012,...

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BiH: Remains of 13 bodies found near Visegrad

The remains of 13 bodies, most likely Bosnian civilians killed in 1992, were exhumed from secondary mass graves at the site Hrtar, near Visegrad. Spokeswoman for the Missing Persons Institute of...

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700 may be dead in Pakistan earthquake, doctors warn

Up to 700 people may have been killed in an earthquake which destroyed thousands of homes and wiped out entire villages in a remote province in Pakistan, doctors have warned. The doctor in charge...

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NASA's New FINDER Scans for Breathing Bodies in Disaster Rubble

NASA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are collaborating on a first-of-its-kind portable radar device to detect the heartbeats and breathing patterns of victims trapped in large piles of...

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