Last Updated: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 11:22
Researchers have warned that the world`s largest tropical desert, the Sahara, has suffered a catastrophic collapse of its wildlife populations.
Last Updated: Friday, November 29, 2013, 09:21
Days after the roof collapse of a supermarket here killed 54 people, the Lithuania-based chain’s management has sacked its Latvia head.
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 27, 2013, 15:05
The middle portion of a flyover with vehicles passing over it collapsed on a goods train in Bihar`s Muzaffarpur town on Wednesday, injuring seven persons.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 15:48
A former top Credit Suisse trader was sentenced to two and a half years of prison yesterday in New York for inflating sub-prime mortgage-related bond prices during the housing market collapse.
Last Updated: Saturday, November 23, 2013, 09:15
Latvian investigators and rescuers combed the ruins of a Riga supermarket for clues and bodies after its roof crashed down on shoppers, killing at least 52.
Last Updated: Friday, November 22, 2013, 17:58
Families living in a building here were evacuated by authorities to safety, after it developed a tilt indicating that it would crash anytime, civic authorities said here on Friday.
Last Updated: Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 12:27
South African emergency workers said hope was fading on Wednesday of finding survivors under a collapsed half-built mall near Durban as heavy machinery was called in to remove the rubble.
Last Updated: Sunday, November 17, 2013, 01:18
Six labourers were killed and seven injured when the compound wall of a private firm collapsed on their house in a village in Thiruvallur district on Sunday, police said.
Last Updated: Friday, November 15, 2013, 12:57
Two children were among three persons who were on Friday killed and nearly 50 others got injured when a roof on which they had gathered to see Muharram lighting on Imambara collapsed, police said.
Last Updated: Thursday, October 31, 2013, 10:53
Five persons were injured after a concrete slab of their building at Kalwa near here fell on them, police said on Thursday.
Last Updated: Saturday, October 26, 2013, 00:07
At least five people were buried alive and one other seriously injured after a quarry collapsed in southwest Kenya, medics and witnesses said Friday.
Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 14:16
A man was killed and his brother got injured when an under-construction roof collapsed on them while they were sleeping at their house in Srikrishnapura village, near here, in the wee hours of Friday.
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