7 d. ago Campgrounds closed along Pacific Crest Trail in search for man wanted in daughters' deaths

Authorities have closed a wide swath of popular campgrounds and backpacking areas along the Pacific Crest Trail in Washington as they search for a former Army soldier wanted in the deaths of his three young daughters

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9 d. ago 'Killer' dad Travis Decker is seen in haunting new doorbell footage after three daughters were found murdered

Police in Washington have released new doorbell camera footage of Travis Decker, 32, an Army veteran accused of murdering his three young daughters as the search for him continues.

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1 week ago Flooding fears eased at picturesque Swiss Alpine village buried by landslide

A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley

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2 w. ago A river dammed by a huge Swiss landslide is flowing again. That's a relief to authorities

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that raised worries about potential new destruction has fallen

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2 w. ago Terrifying satellite images show how tiny Swiss village of Blatten was completely wiped out by massive glacier collapse

The remote Alpine village of Blatten was flattened after an avalanche of rock, mud and ice was sent crashing down into the valley.

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2 w. ago Swiss president pledges aid for Alpine villagers left homeless after glacier collapse

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused by a falling glacier were “not alone” and the wealthy Alpine country was calculating ways to help

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2 w. ago Flooding fears after glacier collapse buries picturesque Swiss village under mud and rock

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month

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2 w. ago Army searches for man after huge chunk of glacier crushes picturesque Swiss Alpine village

Experts were concerned that the debris was blocking a nearby river, causing a new lake to form and posing a flood risk

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2 w. ago Man remains missing after a Swiss glacier collapsed and destroyed 90% of an Alpine village

A 64-year-old man remains missing after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a Swiss mountainside the day before

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2 w. ago Astonishing new footage shows the moment Swiss village is buried by falling glacier, obliterating houses

Video shows a huge cloud of ice and scree spewing over the Swiss village of Blatten on Wednesday, dwarfing tiny Alpine lodges as a chunk of the Birch glacier broke off

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2 w. ago Rock slide hits Swiss Alpine village that authorities had ordered evacuated

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps, sending plumes of dust skyward near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution

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2 w. ago ‘The national museum of absolutely everything’: new V&A outpost is an architectural delight

Poison darts, a dome from Spain, priceless spoons and Frank Lloyd Wright furniture our architecture critic is wowed by how the V&A East Storehouse lets visitors ‘breathe the same air’ as its 250,000 artefacts• ‘Pop a masterpiece in your basket’: our art critic reviews the Storehouse‘We used to have something called social housing,” you will be able to tell your grandchildren, should you ever take them to V&A East Storehouse, the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new outpost in east London. High up in the atrium, at the centre of this huge open-access repository of 250,000 objects, hangs a chunk of Robin Hood Gardens, a brutalist council estate in nearby Poplar that was recently bulldozed to make way for less affordable housing. Deftly suspended from the gantry, the poignant fragment now seems as much a relic of a bygone age as the 15th-century Islamic dome from a Spanish palace that is displayed across the hall. The estate’s precast concrete panels have been reassembled with ju...

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2 w. ago UK heatwave as 'Caribbean jet stream' to blast Britain but 23 counties to miss out

A huge chunk of the UK is set to sizzle in a 48-hour mini-heatwave driven by a Caribbean jet stream - with some areas reaching possible highs of 27C and others missing out on the sunshine

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3 w. ago Swiss evacuate livestock by hoof and helicopter because of landslide risk over Alpine village

Swiss authorities added livestock to the list of evacuees along with about 300 people moved out of a village threatened by a possible landslide from an Alpine mountainside overhead

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3 w. ago As a landslide threatens an Alpine village, Swiss authorities expand the evacuation order

Swiss authorities have expanded the evacuation of an Alpine village threatened by a possible landslide, ordering most of its people to leave

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3 w. ago A Swiss village is evacuated because of a threat of a mudslide

Swiss authorities have evacuated around 100 people from their homes after a mudslide threatened their Alpine village of Blatten in the Lötschental Valley

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