Thursday, 18 December 2014

Search for 5 missing Pinoy crew members of Korean fishing ship continues in Bering Sea

December 18

Search operations for the missing victims of the December 1 sea tragedy off Russia, which included five Filipinos, continue even though no bodies have been found recently, the Department of Foreign...

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When a TWA and United planes collided above New York City, crashed in Brooklyn and Staten Island leaving rubble and human remains in their wake

December 18

(Originally published by the Daily News on Saturday, Dec. 17, 1960; written by Joseph Kiernan, Edward Kirkman and Henry Lee) In the world's worst aviation disaster, two airliners groping through...

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Dozens of people missing feared trapped or dead after five-storey residential building collapses in Nairobi

December 18

One person is dead and dozens more are trapped after a five-storey residential building collapsed in downtown Nairobi. Rescue services have been working frantically to save those trapped inside the...

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ICMP established as international organization in its own right

December 18

The Foreign Ministers of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium, and Luxembourg today signed a Framework Agreement that grants a new legal status to the International Commission on Missing...

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