Disaster

3 Mar 2013

They gathered in the field where the balloon crashed near the village of Hager El Dibie, west of Luxor, to perform mourning rituals. Accompanied by Hong Kong officials, the families - who had made...

Recent seismic activity in China no cause for concern

25 Feb 2013

Authorities have dismissed fears that a series of minor earthquakes, which struck China last week, were a sign of a major, destructive one yet to come, Oriental Morning Post reported.

Mystery gold gifts cheer Japan's tsunami-ravaged port Ishinomaki

17 Feb 2013

A Japanese city devastated by the 2011 tsunami has received anonymous gifts of gold worth more than US$250,000 in a phenomenon dubbed a "goodwill gold rush", as the second anniversary of the...

Military sent in to aid Australia's flooding victims

30 Jan 2013

Storms triggered by tropical cyclone Oswald have claimed four lives - the most recent a three-year-old boy killed by a falling tree - as heavy rains brought flooding to the states of Queensland...

Landslide claims lives of 46 villagers in disaster-prone region of Yunnan

13 Jan 2013

A desperate search for three people missing in a landslide in Yunnan province ended yesterday when their bodies were pulled from the mud, taking the final death toll to 46 - many of them children...

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

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A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

Four dead as Russian plane crashes into motorway

Four crew were killed on Saturday when a Russian airliner crashed into a motorway and broke up into three pieces after overshooting the runway at an international Moscow airport.

Auckland tornado leaves three dead and causes 'utter devastation'

A freak tornado hit Auckland yesterday, killing three people and causing "utter devastation" as wild weather ripped apart homes and caused flash flooding in New Zealand's largest city.

Survivors of Typhoon Bopha mourn their dead

Outside a gymnasium in the battered town of New Bataan, several mud-stained bodies lay side by side, covered by cloth and banana leaves and surrounded by villagers covering their noses to fight...

PHILIPPINES

Typhoon Bopha kills at least 52 in Philippines

Typhoon Bopha killed at least 52 people in the Philippines yesterday as the strongest storm to hit the country this year wreaked devastation.

AVIATION

Continental Airlines cleared of crime in Concorde disaster

A French court on yesterday cleared Continental Airlines of any crime over the July 2000 crash of an Air France Concorde but upheld a ruling that the US airline bore civil responsibility for the...

GUATEMALA

Violent Guatemala earthquake kills 48

A 7.4-magnitude earthquake has rocked southwestern Guatemala, killing 48 people and injuring another 150, with more suspected victims missing in the wreckage.