Super typhoon Haiyan slams into Philippines, at least four dead

The strongest typhoon in the world this year and possibly the most powerful ever to hit land smashed into the Philippines on Friday, forcing more than a million people to flee, flooding villages and...

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Hyderabad bus fire: DNA sleuths reach dead end on bus four

Forensic specialists have reached a dead end trying to identify four of the 45 passengers who were charred to death in the October 30 Volvo crash near Hyderabad, saying the heat had “so deeply carbonised”...

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Lagos releases DNA test results as families besiege hospital to receive bodies

It was yet another moment of agony for relatives of the victims of the Associated Airline plane that crashed in Lagos on Thursday, October 3, as the Lagos State Government yesterday released the results...

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100th Anniversary: Many lost at sea during 'The White Hurricane of 1913'

It happened 100 years before the news media ever thought of coining the term "superstorm" to describe a weather event. But, this truly was a superstorm. It's known as the White Hurricane, or the...

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Kenya: No more unidentified bodies accepted at Teso morgue

The Frapa Funeral Home Kocholya in Teso North has stopped accepting unidentified bodies delivered by police. Manager Judith Aluku said police have been directed to take such bodies to public mortuaries...

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Mahabubnagar bus fire: 3 more bodies identified

Three more bodies of victims of the Volvo bus tragedy at Mahabubnagar were identified on Thursday, bringing the total number to 44. The three were identified as Anita and Manjunath Reddy of Bangalore...

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