Spain: Suspected methane gas leak kills six miners, ten trapped

A methane gas leak at a coalmine in northern Spain has been blamed for the deaths of six miners. The deaths occurred at the Santa Lucia mine near the town of Pola de Gordon, according to the 112...

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Niger migrants 'die of thirst' crossing the Sahara

Dozens of people traversing the Sahara desert on their way to Europe are feared to have died of thirst in Niger, officials say. Five bodies have been found, while a further 35 are missing after...

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May 29, 1944: WWII plane slammed into Mt. Whymper hillside

It was a lonely place to die, out on a jagged hillside near Mt. Whymper, at the headwaters of the Nanaimo river. This was where a B-25 Mitchell bomber ended its voyage on May 29, 1944. It had set...

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The Great Storm of 1987: How the 'hurricane' claimed 18 lives

Today's storm was predicted to be the worst since the Great Storm of 1987, which battered England and Wales leaving 18 people dead and causing £1.5billion worth of damage to the economy. In the...

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New mass graves raise hope for the missing in Bosnia

Suad Zeric stares expectantly at a corpse exhumed from a gaping, freshly-dug hole where hundreds of Muslims and Croats massacred in the Bosnian war were tossed two decades ago. The body, surrounded...

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