Death toll in Italian quake rises to 73At least 73 people have died in an earthquake which devastated a string of small towns in central Italy in the early hours of Wednesday, the civil protection department said. The quake struck when most residents were asleep, razin More… |
Quake devastates mountain towns in central Italy; 20 killedAn earthquake devastated a string of mountainous towns over a swathe of central Italy early on Wednesday, trapping residents under hills of rubble, with at least 20 people believed killed and many missing. The quake struck in the More… |
120 people still trapped in Taiwan tower rubbleRescuers in Taiwan pulled more people alive from a collapsed apartment tower on Sunday, a day after a strong earthquake shook the island, and kept searching for about 120 people still believed trapped in the ruins of the building. More… |
Terrified families emerge from rubble after Ramadi battleTerrified families waved white flags as they emerged from homes reduced to rubble in the Iraqi city of Ramadi, where government troops were still battling Islamic State fighters holed up on Friday, five days after the army recaptured the city ce More… |
Turning rubble into homes, the Dutch styleIn Dutch capital Amsterdam, a mobile factory, the size of two shipping containers, ingests rubble at one end, liquifies it into cement and spurts out Lego-shaped building blocks. Call it rubble for the people, converting the deadl More… |
India building collapse death toll reaches 50The death toll from the collapse of a five-storey apartment block in India's financial capital of Mumbai climbed to 50 on Saturday and was expected to rise as more than a dozen people were feared trapped in the rubble. The cau More… |
Tatweer launches steam injection projectBahrain-based Tatweer Petroleum has launched its new Rubble Heavy Oil Steam Injection project, marking the first time that steam has been injected into an oil reservoir in the Bahrain Field. This will enable Bahrain to produce oil fr More… |