98 m. ago Major update in search for Brit tourist who ‘may have been eaten by a crocodile’ after ‘vanishing’ in South Africa

A MAJOR update in the hunt for a missing British hiker has come just a week after the search kicked off. British tourist Elaine McSorley vanished after embarking on a self-guided hike from her South African hotel last week. But the search for the missing 71-year-old has been called off with no trace of her,...

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5 h. ago Massive landslide kills 24, including 7 children, as video shows building collapse into river

The region of Darjeeling in the West Bengal was hit by mudslides, with one official fearing that the death toll will rise as the rescue mission continues to find trapped residents

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6 h. ago Major search for missing man as coastguard and helicopter scrambled

George Norwell, 77, was last seen in Whittle-le-Woods, Preston, on Saturday morning and a major search is continuing including coastguard teams after his car was found near the River Ribble

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8 h. ago Entire villages swept away by India landslides as rescuers search for people in debris

Downpours and road damage hampered efforts to reach several affected villages

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13 h. ago Police 'extremely worried' for missing man, 77, as search continues

George Norwell was last seen on Saturday near the River Ribble in Preston

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15 h. ago Rescuers in India search for missing after landslides kill 24 in Darjeeling region

Rescuers are scouring India's tea-growing hill district of Darjeeling to find several missing people

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20 h. ago Indonesia school collapse death toll reaches 49 as search for missing students continues

Excavators used to remove rubble while 14 people reportedly still unaccounted for and police allege building work was being carried out without a permitIndonesian rescuers searching for missing students after a prayer hall at an Islamic boarding school collapsed last week recovered the bodies of dozens of students over the weekend, bringing the confirmed death toll to 49.Using heavy excavators equipped with jackhammers, circular saws and sometimes their bare hands, rescue teams removed tons of rubble in an attempt to find the 14 students reportedly still missing. Rescuers found 35 bodies over the weekend alone, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency said. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago Indonesia school collapse death toll reaches 54 as search for missing students continues

Excavators used to remove rubble while 14 people reportedly still unaccounted for and police allege building work was being carried out without a permitIndonesian rescuers searching for missing students after a prayer hall at an Islamic boarding school collapsed last week recovered the bodies of dozens of students over the weekend, bringing the confirmed death toll to 54.Using heavy excavators equipped with jackhammers, circular saws and sometimes their bare hands, rescue teams removed tons of rubble in an attempt to find the 14 students reportedly still missing. Rescuers found 35 bodies over the weekend alone, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency said. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Indonesian rescuers search for missing students after school collapse kills 40

Indonesian rescuers have recovered over two dozen bodies over the weekend alone after a prayer hall at an Islamic boarding school collapsed five days ago

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35 h. ago Landslides kill more than 60 in India and Nepal after days of heavy rain

Rescue efforts continue as flooding, road blockages and bridge collapses isolate communities in Himalayan regions

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49 h. ago New CCTV video in search for woman missing since leaving hospital two weeks ago

Kent Police have renewed their appeal to find Helen Eade, who has been missing from Maidstone for more than two weeks, and have released new CCTV footage of the 59-year-old woman

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3 d. ago Police give devastating update on boy, 4, who vanished from grandparents'

August 'Gus' Lamont, from Australia, vanished without a trace almost a week ago. Police have issued a major update into the case as they scale back the search for the missing four year old

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3 d. ago South Australian police issue a devastating update in the search for missing four

Police will scale back the search for missing four-year-old boy Gus after admitting they still have not found any trace of him.

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4 d. ago First photo emerges of boy who vanished without a trace in Australian outback

Police have declared that the search for a four-year-old boy missing in the South Australian outback is now in the 'recovery phase,' as rescuers hold little hope of finding him alive.

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5 d. ago Greater Manchester Police issue update after search for missing mum

Paige has been reported as 'safe and well'

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5 d. ago Prospect of life on Saturn’s moons rises after discovery of organic substances

Scientists studying water vapour plume from Enceladus find presence of complex molecules that could harbour lifeThe likelihood that one of Saturn’s moons may harbour life has risen, experts say, after finding an array of carbon-based substances being spewed out of Enceladus.The sixth largest of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus has become one of the leading contenders in the search for bodies that could harbour extraterrestrial life, with the Cassini mission – which ended in 2017 – revealing the moon has a plume of water ice grains and vapours erupting from beneath the surface at its south pole. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Indonesia school collapse: 91 missing and three dead as rescuers search rubble for second day

Desperate search for more than 90 missing after building collapses while students held prayers at school in SidoarjoParents and rescuers in Indonesia were desperately searching for dozens of teenage boys believed to be trapped, a day after the collapse of an Islamic boarding school which has already left three dead, authorities said.Authorities said 91 people were listed as missing after the Al Khoziny school building collapsed while pupils held late afternoon prayers in a mosque housed on a lower floor of a building whose upper floors were under construction. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Police issue warning to volunteers as Yr Wyddfa search for missing man continues

A major search operation for the missing man has entered its second day

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6 d. ago They were lost in the wild and on the verge of death. This is how they survived

Thousands of search and rescue missions are conducted in the US each year. Who lives, who dies, and why?The night is pitch black, and I cannot see a thing. I stumble out from the trees, hands stretched out like antennas. The sagebrush and rocks snag my feet, and I fall. My stomach drops. My heart skips a beat. My palms are scratched.I am trying to find my campsite, a mile from the Idaho backcountry hot spring where I have just been soaking in. By the time I crawled out of the pool, night had fallen, and I could not find my headlamp or my lighter. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago South African ambassador Nathi Mthethwa dies in plunge from 22nd floor of famous Hyatt Hotel in Paris

SOUTH Africa's ambassador to France has died after reportedly plunging from the 22nd floor of a famous Paris hotel. Nkosinathi “Nathi” Mthethwa, a veteran politician and diplomat, had been missing since Monday, sparking a police search after his wife alerted authorities. She said she had received a “worrying message” from the 58-year-old that evening, according...

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