Quebec brings 9/11 expert to help sift through train crash wreckage

A US expert who worked on the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks is helping Canadian authorities sift through wreckage left more than a week after a runaway train barreled into a lakeside town in Quebec...

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Refugees swamp outpost morgue on Christmas Island

Australia's remote outpost of Christmas Island has increased its mortuary spaces tenfold as the Indian Ocean continues to claim the lives of a rapidly rising number of asylum seekers. Yesterday,...

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Man arrested for stealing 56 skulls from cemeteries and setting up a skeleton museum at his home in Austria

A man has been arrested after police found 56 skulls and other human skeletal remains which had been stolen from graves in a museum at his home. Police conducted a search of the house in Austria's...

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City Light Hotel collapse death toll mounts to 18

One more person who suffered injuries in the City Light Hotel collapse succumbed at Gandhi Hospital here on Wednesday. This increased the death toll to 18. The deceased has been identified as Nagayya,...

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Bridge collapses killing 12 people in China

Video footage has captured the moment that the bridge crumbled into the high waters of a flooded river in south-west China. The bridge reportedly had six vehicles on it when it was submerged. Three...

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Belongings of World War Two pilots returned to their families almost 70 years later

It was a journey which began in the dying days of the Second World War - and will end 68 years later with the honours denied to them in death. When 20-year-olds Sergeant David Raikes, Flight Sergeant...

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Police investigate Berkshire cold case

Thames Valley Police is trying to identify a man whose body was found in the River Thames in Windsor in 1990. An artist’s impression of the man, drawn from forensic photographs, shows what he may...

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More victims put to rest at Srebrenica

Muhić Fatima died 18 years ago, when she was just two days old and before she even had a name, the youngest victim of the Srebrenica genocide. Her body was found in December 2012 with five other victims...

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