Girls Trapped By Storm Update Facebook Instead Of Dialing 911

The first instinct for two teenagers trapped in a storm drain in Adelaide, Australia was to update their Facebook status rather than call the emergency services. Two girls, 10 and 12 years old, had a mobile phone to use while trapped in a drain, but opted to log in to...

Coal Mine Explosion Traps 19 In Slovakia

14 miners are missing and presumed dead after an underground coal mine exploded in northern Slovakia. The miners had been putting out a fire in the Handlova mine when it exploded, said the mine owner. The explosion occured in an unused section of the mine, and is thought to...

16 trapped in NE China colliery flooding

In yet another incident of mine related accident 16 people are fighting with death in flooded mine in north east province of China.How safe are Chinese mines for the workers? Do they follow the standard safety...

Trapped Inside Gaza

From the Washingtonpost.com : JERUSALEM, Jan. 4 -- As Israeli forces attacked Gaza by land, sea and air, residents living in the congested coastal strip faced a fateful question: Flee the shelling and...

Building in Sukkur, Pakistan collapses; six dead

Six people are dead, and many more injured after a multi-storey residential building collapsed in Sukkur, Pakistan Wednesday night. There are more people feared dead as people are trapped under the rubble, and rescue crews are still working to look for people. A school...

Narwhals trapped in arctic ice

About 400 Narwhals are trapped in ice near Baffin Island, which makes this one of the largest strandings in the Arctic. Inuit hunters spotted the whales last week, and originally thought that 200 had been...

I Am Engulfed In Flames

"I Am Engulfed In Flames By Citizen Correspondent Todd Williams Date Posted: 11/17/08 Reader Rating: A few weeks ago David Sedaris stopped by...

Building collapses in Mumbai, 2 killed

A five storeyed old run down building collapsed early morning at Mumbai's Crawford market. Mumbai Fire Brigade and other rescue workers are searching for the survivors. 6 members of a family are trapped under the...

82 children dead in Haitian school collapse

In a tragic incident of school buiding collapse in capital of Haiti, more than fifty children died, and almost 120 injured.Rescue operation is still on, the relatives of children are searching the body of their...

Families flee river of ice after freak storm hits town

The bizarre fall weather has continued in the UK, with a freak ice storm hitting the British town of Devon."Dozens of people, including a mother in labour, had to be rescued after a freak hailstorm left a Devon town cut off by floodwater.More than a foot of hail fell on...

France, man left train station with high speed train toilet on his arm

Don't use your mobile phone on the toilet, looking down, it may fall, and never return. Until you close your eyes and try to grab it ....a powerful suction system. " A passenger on a French train had to be rescued...

Unpaid Chinese workers hold Israeli contractors on Turks and Caicos island

Economic crisis: chinese workers unpaid125-room Ritz-Carlton resort was planned on secluded island   " An Israeli at the scene told the Ynet Web site that no one has been hurt. But the man, identified...

India vs Australia, 1st Test: Australia placed strongly

"Australia were placed in a somewhat strong position at the end of the first day of the first test against India at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. Zaheer dismissed Hayden in the first over of the day and with Ishant Sharma kept the scoring on a tight leash. But Katich and Ponting...

Food technology driving Indian farmers towards suicide

Farmers in India are committing suicide and number is increasing every year. Among the various reasons being cited for the serial suicide deaths  that continues unabated is new food technologies. They are...

Texans endure sleepless night as Ike roars ashore

"A massive Hurricane Ike menaced the darkened Texas coast early Saturday, ensuring a sleepless night for thousands who huddled and waited to find out if a gamble to face the storm head-on could cost them their lives.Before the eye even crossed land, the first bands were...

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