Hong Kong continues search for 6 missing crew after boat crash

Hong Kong search teams held out hope on Friday for six boat crew members missing at sea after a collision, as officials investigated the cause of the latest incident to hit the city's busy waterways. It...

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Derry: Photos recall graveyard collapse in 1934

These remarkable photographs reveal the extraordinary scenes witnessed by passers-by when a church graveyard collapsed into a Derry street nearly eighty years ago. The following story - compiled by...

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Update: 19 dead in Mahakam boat accident, 4 still missing

It was announced on Friday that 19 people are dead and 4 others still missing on the third day after KM Karya Indah, a wooden ship leased by PT Kalamur, sank in the Mahakam River, in Samarinda, East...

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Earthquake hits south-west China, at least 102 dead

At least 102 people are dead and more than 2,200 injured after a powerful earthquake rocked Sichuan, in south-west China, on Saturday morning, officials said. The 6.6-magnitude shock is believed...

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Twelve dead, 15 missing in Brazil boat accident

At least 12 people died and around 15 were missing Friday after a boat capsized in the Ariri river in the Brazilian Amazon, firefighters said in a revised toll, as an investigation got under way. ...

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