Breaking News, Latest Philippines Headlines, World, Entertainment, Politics, Weather & Video News
by Elodie Cuzin and Yemeli Ortega Agence France-Presse MEXICO City, Mexico (AFP) — A week after an earthquake that killed more than 300 people, thousands of Mexicans were still unable to return Tuesday to their badly damaged homes, much less their normal lives. After a week of eerie quiet in Mexico City, the capital’s notorious traffic jams were visible again as the sprawling city of 20 million people began returning to work and school. But many residents still […]
Survivors of a series of Japanese quakes measuring up to 7.3 struggled on Tuesday with shortages of food and water as the death toll rose to 44 and rescuers dug through mud and rubble for the missing, but hopes dimmed of finding them alive. Japanese stocks bounced back from Monday’s slide, with electronics manufacturer Sony Corp climbing 6.7 percent after saying its image sensor plant in Kumamoto, shut after the quake, makes components mainly […]
WEIFANG CITY, SHANDONG PROVINCE, China (Reuters) – Rescuers in eastern China saved a three-year-old boy from a well on Thursday (March 31), state media reported. Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said that the boy had fallen 11.8 meters-deep (38.7 feet) into the 90 meter-deep (295.2 feet) well while playing in an empty courtyard on Thursday afternoon in Weifang City of Shandong province. Local firefighters were called to the scene soon after. Unable to physically reach the […]
Rescuers started to drill the second life hole late Sunday at the collapsed mine in east China’s Shandong Province to send food, water and communication tools to the miners trapped underground. The first 20-centimeter-wide hole was drilled through by Sunday noon to reach the 220-meter-deep location where 14 miners are trapped after the accident on Friday. At the same time, rescuers are continuing digging a hole at a separate location to reach the remaining three […]
