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Vienna museum evacuates half its collection: chief Vienna (AFP) July 1, 2009 
The Albertina, one of Vienna's most famous museums, said Wednesday it has so far evacuated around half of its vast collection of 950,000 art works after rain flooded its main depot last week. "We've evacuated 50 percent of our total depots," the museum's director Klaus Albrecht Schroeder told a news conference. "But we have to remove everything because the special cardboard containers ... read moreThree killed, 60 injured in China train collision: official 
Beijing (AFP) June 29, 2009At least three people were killed and over 60 injured when two passenger trains collided early Monday in central China, a local government official said. The accident happened at 2:34 am (1834 GMT Sunday) at the railway station in Chenzhou city, Hunan province, an official at the provincial work safety bureau, who refused to be named, told AFP. Seven carriages were derailed in the ... more
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Nine investigated over Shanghai building collapse: official
Shanghai (AFP) June 29, 2009Shanghai authorities were investigating nine people after a nearly completed 13-storey apartment building toppled over almost intact, killing one worker, an official said Monday. The building collapse Saturday highlighted the poor quality of Chinese construction standards just as Shanghai undergoes a massive building boom in preparation for next year's World Expo. Those under ... more Chinese officials jailed for roles in landslide: state media 
Beijing (AFP) June 28, 2009Twelve officials have been jailed for negligence and abuses of power that led to at least 277 people being killed in a landslide in northern China last year, state media reported Sunday. The September 8 disaster in the northern province of Shanxi occurred when an illegal mine dumping pond burst, swamping a village of 1,000 people in a torrent of mud and sludge. Investigations found the ... more Nearly-completed Shanghai high-rise falls over: state media 
Shanghai (AFP) June 28, 2009A nearly-completed 13-storey Shanghai apartment building toppled over, killing a worker and raising concerns in China's largest city over construction standards, state media reported Sunday. Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng ordered a full investigation into the cause of the incident, which occurred Saturday in the southwestern part of the city, the Shanghai Daily reported. "It was horrible. The ... more Boss held after deadly China blast: state media 
Beijing (AFP) June 22, 2009Police have detained a company boss for illegally storing explosives that triggered a blast at a factory in eastern China leaving 16 people dead and 43 people injured, state media said. The explosion occurred in Anhui province early Sunday morning at the Jingxin Mining company that produces and processes quartz sand. Cao Peijun, the boss of the company, was found to be illegally storing ... more |
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Police call for public's help in China bus blaze probe
Beijing (AFP) June 8, 2009Investigators probing a bus blaze in southwest China that killed 27 people have issued a public appeal for help in identifying a person suspected of bringing petrol on board the vehicle. "From what we've gathered, someone brought flammable material -- gasoline -- onto the bus," investigator He Jiansheng said at a press conference late Sunday in Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan ... more Frantic search for survivors of China avalanche 
Beijing (AFP) June 6, 2009Hundreds of rescue workers and volunteers were Saturday searching for dozens of people feared buried alive when part of a mountain collapsed in a massive landslide in southwest China, officials said. Seventy-four people were missing after the disaster struck Friday afternoon in an iron ore mining district of the vast Chongqing municipality, a Chongqing government spokesman told a televised ... more Missing jet: French warship finds body 
Paris (AFP) June 7, 2009A French warship hunting for the wreck of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic with the loss of 228 people has found a body, the military said Sunday. Earlier, Brazilian crews on five more ships found five other bodies from flight AF 447 from Rio to Paris. "The frigate Ventouse recovered a body and debris that could have come from a plane," said Captain Christophe Prazuck ... more Number of missing rises to 80 in China landslide: state media 
Beijing (AFP) June 5, 2009At least 80 people were feared buried Friday when part of a mountain collapsed in a massive landslide in a remote area of southwestern China, the government and state media said. The mountainside in Wulong county in Chongqing municipality collapsed onto an iron ore mine and six houses, according to a report posted on the Chongqing government website. Quarry workers, residents and passers ... more |
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