Echoes

May 91 min read

Hope fades for 44 trapped in collapsed South Africa building

Relatives of 44 trapped construction workers in George, South Africa, faced a fourth day of anxious waiting on Thursday as heavy machinery w

May 91 min read

Rat parts found in Japanese sliced white bread

A prominent brand of sliced white bread is undergoing a recall in Japan due to the inadvertent inclusion of rat parts in some loaves.

May 91 min read

100-Year-Old World War II Veteran To Marry Fiance, 96, In Normandy

Harold Terens and his fiancée, Jeanne Swerlin, plan to tie the knot in Carentan-les-Marais in June

May 91 min read

Mountain Guide Dies In Nepal After Climbing World's Fifth-Highest Peak

A Nepali guide died after successfully summiting Mount Makalu, the world's fifth-highest mountain, marking the first fatality of the spring

May 91 min read

Boeing Plane Skids Off Runway At Senegal Airport, Flights Suspended

Transair Senegal's Boeing 737-300 (6V-AJE, built in 1994) suffered serious damage when it overshot the landing runway at Dakar-Intl Airport

May 91 min read

Cruise ship employee charged after allegedly stabbing 3 people with medical scissors

A man accused of a stabbing spree on a Norwegian Cruise Line ship was arrested and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon.

May 91 min read

A Cambodian court sentences a union leader to 18 months in prison for comments on Facebook

Morm Rithy, 35, vice president of the Cambodian Labor Confederation, received 18-month prison sentence for remarks during a live Facebook

May 91 min read

Former Fiji PM Bainimarama sentenced to year in jail

Fiji's former long-serving prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, received a one-year prison sentence for perverting the course of justice

May 82 min read

Zoogoers outraged to discover ‘panda’ exhibit was actually dogs dyed black and white

A zoo in China caused a stir by dressing dogs as pandas since they didn't have the real ones, as shown in a viral video

May 81 min read

Ugandan policeman jailed 50 years for strangling to death colleague’s 9-year-old daughter

The High Court in Kampala has sentenced Inspector of Police Emmanuel Abura Wilson, aged 48, to 50 years in prison for the murder of 9-year-o

May 81 min read

Boeing 767 smashes into runway as the FedEx plane makes emergency landing without a nose gear in Turkey

In Turkey, a Boeing 767 cargo plane operated by FedEx crash-landed due to landing gear failure after departing from Paris' Charles de Gaulle

May 81 min read

Russian soldier ‘shoots dead 6 comrades including commander as they sleep’ in massacre before fleeing with rifle

Police are searching for a Russian soldier suspected of shooting dead six of his comrades in eastern Ukraine,