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Salvage team boards drifting tanker off France

Ship being towed to Bilbao

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GRAPHIC: US sheriff mowed down by lorry

Warning – graphic content. This is dashcam footage showing a sheriff in Ohio, USA, being run down by a lorry. It happened as he was directing traffic

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Stricken cargo ship heads for French coast

This is the stricken cargo ship that was heading towards the French coast on Monday (February 1). The Modern Express, registered in Panama, began

France

Time is running out for stricken freighter as it drifts towards French coast

A final salvage effort is to be made today to try and tow a stricken cargo ship which is drifting on its side off the French Atlantic coast. Previous

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Drifting cargo shift could hit French Atlantic Coast by Tuesday

French salvage team workers have been struggling to tow the drifting Modern Express from rough waters.

Russia

12 dead in suspected arson attack in Moscow

A criminal investigation is underway after fire crews found 12 bodies in the wreckage of a burning building in Moscow. Arson is suspected after the

China

Footage captures Chinese miners' relief ahead of 'miracle' rescue

New footage has been released showing the relief of four Chinese miners as they prepared to be rescued after 36 days trapped underground. Sitting in

France

Stricken timber freighter drifts towards French coast

French coastguards are scratching their heads as to how to prevent a freighter loaded with timber from Gabon from wrecking itself on the Atlantic

USA

Challenger disaster: space crew remembered 30 years on

Hundreds have gathered at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida to remember the victims of the Challenger shuttle disaster, 30 years on. Six

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Daredevil skier falls 1,000 feet, emerges unscathed

Pro-skier Angel Collinson was shooting a documentary in Alaska’s Neacola range in April 2015 when she tumbled and plummeted 1,000 feet (just over 304

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DISTURBING: Shocking hit-and-run caught on CCTV

Harrowing footage has been released of a hit-and-run collision that left a 53-year-old pedestrian with serious injuries on January 14. CCTV footage

Italy

Seventy injured in Sardinia metro collision

Dozens of passengers have been injured in a metro train collision in the Sardinian regional capital of Cagliari. At around 8 am local time two

France

Putting out the Ritz blaze brakes out glitzy hotel in Paris

A major fire has broken out at the prestigious Ritz hotel in Paris.Breaking: Fire breaks out in the Ritz Hotel in Paris via pfroissart</a> <a

France

A second deadly avalanche in French Alps kills five soldiers

Five French soldiers have died and eight others injured in an avalanche in the Alps. All were members of the French Foreign Legion and were part of a

France

Avalanche kills five soldiers in French Alps

An avalanche has claimed the lives of five soldiers who were training off piste at the Valfréjus station in the French Alps, not far from the Italian

Italy

Italy: five killed in suspected gas explosion

At least five people have been killed as the result of an explosion in north western Italy. The blast, believed to have been caused by a gas leak

France

Botched drug trial leaves six in serious condition in France

One person is in a coma and five others are in a serious condition in France after taking part in a drugs trial that went wrong. The trial took place

France

French Alps avalanche: teacher led class onto closed, black-rated ski track

French prosecutors have opened an investigation into manslaughter after three people, including two teenagers, died in an avalanche in the French Alps on Wednesday.

France

Lyon students in shock after avalanche deaths

The students from Saint-Exupéry High School in Lyon, France, return the day after, struggling to come to terms with what happened the day before

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Hong Kong: local anger grows as five people mysteriously disappear

Five people with connections to the same publishing house have disappeared