With news that it could take at least four months to free the 33 workers trapped in a Chilean mine, constant contact with the outside world could be the key to the miners’ mental and physical survival – and the... (Continue reading)
Hostage negotiators, left and right, talk to foreign tourists taken hostage by Police Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza after securing their release at Manila’s Rizal Park Monday Aug. 23, 2010 in Manila, Philippines. Mendoza, a dismissed policeman armed with automatic rifle,... (Continue reading)
BEIJING – Floods forced the evacuation of 94,000 people in the northern port city of Dandong in China, after heavy rains caused the Yalu to their banks, violated the state media on Sunday. More rain is expected to threaten the... (Continue reading)
London, 21 August : An eight-year-old who wanted a Japanese Akita dog received 175 stitches in his face and head after they mutilated by dogs in West Yorkshire, a press report. Sky Barker played in Rastrick, West Yorkshire, last Thursday,... (Continue reading)
London, Aug 19 : Two 11-year-old boys from a London suburb were Thursday sentenced to a three-year supervision for attempting to rape an eight-year-old girl. The boys were aged 10 in October 2009, when they assaulted the girl in Hayes... (Continue reading)
MADRID — A bull leapt into the packed grandstands of a Spanish bullring and ran amok, charging and trampling spectators and leaving 40 people injured, regional officials said Thursday. Video showed the bull jumping several meters (yards) high out of... (Continue reading)