40 feared dead in Liberia building fire

Over 40 people are feared burnt to death when a building in the Waterside commercial district in central Monrovia was destroyed by an inferno, local authorities said. The casualties include members...

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Between two earthquakes - Chinese media moves from tabloid to tender

More than 4,000 aftershocks have been recorded since the earthquake that struck Sichuan Province, in the southwest of China, last Saturday. The death keeps rising, with dozens still missing reports...

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How do I become… an embalmer?

As an eight-year-old, Kevin Sinclair would fetch the Hoover from the chapel beneath the family flat, see dead bodies in coffins and carry on. "They were just sleeping," he says casually. "That's what...

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The disappeared in Turkey: Justice central to Kurdish peace process

Justice for the thousands of state-perpetrated killings and disappearances of Kurdish civilians in the 1990s should be an essential part of the peace process under way in Turkey, Human Rights Watch...

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Tattoos honor victims of bombings

A week after learning his friends escaped harm in the Boston Marathon bomb attack, Adam Myerson was squirming with pain in a tattoo-parlor chair, fulfilling an urge that had been building for days....

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14 people buried in Ecuador landslide

A total of 14 people were buried by a landslide on Tuesday in Ecuador's coastal province of Esmeraldas, Xinhua news agency reported. Esmeraldas mayor Ernesto Estupilan said the landslide occurred...

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Search for survivors continues, evacuation order ignored before Savar building collapse

One day after Wednesday's collapse, as hundreds of rescuers clawed through the rubble, the cries of trapped survivors could still occasionally be heard, with the screams of a woman pinned between concrete...

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Two more bodies found in Rizal landfill

Two more workers buried in a mountain of garbage at the Rizal Provincial Sanitary Landfill last Friday were identified Thursday morning, authorities said. Calabarzon Police director Chief Superintendent...

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Digging up the past in Halbe

In the forests around Berlin lie perhaps tens of thousands of bodies, victims of the fierce battles of WWII and the vagaries of history. One man is digging up this past, determined to give the dead...

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