Divers fail to retrieve more bodies in AirAsia jet’s fuselage

Divers today scoured the sunken fuselage of the crashed AirAsia jet in the Java Sea but failed to retrieve the main wreck or any more bodies of the 162 people as bad weather and high waves forced searchers...

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At least 108 dead as Central African Republic boat capsizes

At least 108 people died and 14 others are missing after a riverboat capsized on the Oubangui river in Central African Republic, according to the Transportation Ministry. The sinking happened on...

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Sinking of the Viking a century ago

They were scenes a century ago this week that had seldom been seen before in Shields, and that drove home to this seafaring community of ours what the cost of war could be. Before the outbreak of...

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