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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