SW China landslide kills five, injures three

Five people were killed and three others injured in a landslide that hit an expressway construction site in southwest China's Guizhou Province early Sunday morning, local authorities said. The landslide...

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Lunch boxes of the dead key to survival in factory hell

Bangladeshi officials have given the first account of how a "miracle" survivor pulled from a collapsed building managed to emerge alive 17 days after the disaster, and hailed her indomitable spirit. Reshma...

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Rana Plaza death toll now at 1,126

Officials say 1,126 dead bodies have so far been pulled out of the wreckage of the ill-fated Rana Plaza which collapsed on Apr 24. The death toll is being updated by a temporary control room run...

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