
Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Southerners found their emergency safety net shredded on Friday as they tried to emerge from the US' deadliest tornado disaster since the Great Depression. Emergency buildings are wiped out. Bodies are stored in refrigerated trucks. Authorities are begging for such basics as flashlights. In one neighborhood, the storms even left firefighters to work without a truck. The death toll from Wednesday's storms reached 329 across seven states, including...

08:57 AM, Apr 30, 2011

Copiapo, Chile: The Chile miners’ rescue mission was completed as all 33 miners, who had been trapped underground for 69 days, were rescued. This was perhaps the most dramatic and most watched rescue operation ever. The entire world hooked to the miraculous survival story of the miners. On the ground awaited a warm welcome for the men who have survived underground for the longest time ever by family and friends...

08:43 AM, Oct 14, 2010

The hole is just about the size of the rescue capsule and worst, it is not even straight. ...

10:59 PM, Oct 13, 2010

Copiapo, Chile: Fifteen miners have been rescued from the Chile mines. The two-month long ordeal for the trapped Chilean miners is about to end. The retrieval of the remaining 22 trapped Chilean miners is under way, with first rescuer Manuel Gonzalez reaching the men after descending the shaft in the rescue capsule. The rescued miners will now be taken for medical examination. Gonzalez, from the state-owned mining conglomerate Codelco, took...

08:45 AM, Oct 13, 2010

The boys, aged from six to 13 years, were rescued in Mardan. ...

08:35 AM, Jul 28, 2009

There is no immediate response from the LTTE in this regard. ...

04:46 PM, Apr 12, 2009

The death of a third climber resulted in the rescue decision. ...

05:54 PM, Jul 25, 2008