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Nepal

Dutch climber dies on Everest descent

A Dutch climber has died while descending from Everest.

World News

At least 12 dead in Peru bus crash

At least 12 people have been killed in Peru when a coach in which they were travelling crashed in the northern province of Viru. Nearly 30 others

Poland

Watch: train driver races to warn passengers ahead of crash

A truck had broken down on a crossing and there was no time for an emergency stop.

United Kingdom

A car in London just got swallowed by a sink hole

Residents of south east london got a surprise this morning when they awoke to find a sink hole had opened up on their street. One particularly

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Kenya

Six days on, survivors are found in collapsed Kenya building

Man and two women rescued Fourth woman survived in a cavity Around 140 now saved Police say 39 dead Rescuers in Kenya pulled four more

Kenya

A miracle in Nairobi

Four people are pulled alive from the wreckage of an apartment block - six days after it collapsed.

Kenya

Kenya: baby pulled alive from rubble of Nairobi building reunited with father

The Kenyan Red Cross says a six-month-old baby girl has no visible physical injuries – despite being buried in the rubble of a collapsed building in

USA

Washington DC chemical leak after freight train derails

Emergency teams in the U.S. capital have successfully sealed a leak on a freight train after it derailed on Sunday. Fourteen wagons on the CSX train

Kenya

Collapsed Kenya building 'had no occupancy permit'

With up to 16 people now dead and dozens feared missing, reports from Kenya say the six-storey residential block that collapsed late on Friday amid

Kenya

Rescue teams keep searching after deadly Kenya collapse

At least ten bodies have now been recovered from the rubble of a collapsed building in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Visiting the site of the disaster

Norway

Norwegian helicopter crash victims all presumed dead

All 13 people on a helicopter that crashed off the Norwegian coast on Friday are presumed dead. Dramatic images showed the detached rota blade still

Kenya

Chaotic scenes in Kenyan capital

Many are feared trapped in a collapsed residential building in the Huruma area of Nairobi.

Norway

11 bodies recovered after Norwegian helicopter crash

A helicopter ferrying passengers from a Norwegian oil platform crashed in the North Sea on Friday (April 29) killing at least 11 of the 13 people on

Republic of Ecuador

Plane skids off runway in Ecuador

A plane carrying 93 passengers skidded off the runway after landing during heavy rain in southern Ecuador on Thursday. It happened at Cuenca airport

United Kingdom

Liverpool holds vigil for victims of Hillsborough football tragedy

Families of the victims of the Hillsborough tragedy have gathered in the northern English city of Liverpool to celebrate Tuesday’s verdict. They were

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Services held to mark 30th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster

A bell has tolled 30 times in Kyiv in Ukraine at a church built in memory of the victims of the Chernobyl disaster, to mark the 30th anniversary of

Ukraine

Candle-lit vigils to mark 30th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear disaster

It was in the early hours of the morning on April the 26th 1986 that a test went horribly wrong at the nuclear plant in then Soviet Ukraine

World News

Chernobyl nuclear disaster remembered

Thirty years ago, on April 26 a catastrophic nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine. An explosion and

China

China: quick-thinking cop averts potential tragedy as sinkhole appears in busy road

The observational skills and quick-wits of a policeman in the Chinese city of Hangzhou have potentially saved dozens of lives. He put cones out

Brazil

At least 2 people killed after Rio cycle lane collapses

At least two people have been killed in Brazil’s Olympic city of Rio de Janeiro when a new cycle lane collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean. The beach