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| May. 16 |
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Invasive ladybirds wage 'biological war' on natives. Germany
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| May. 9 |
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Sailor dies as US race boat capsizes San Francisco Bay Area: A British Olympic sailor has died after a Swedish catamaran capsized during a training session for the America's Cup in San Francisco Bay
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Lightning strike injures 39 at party in Germany |
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| May. 8 |
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Deaths as ship rams Genoa tower. Northern Italy
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| May. 7 |
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Deaths as ship rams Genoa tower |
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| May. 4 |
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Train with chemicals derails in Belgium |
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| Apr. 29 |
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Powerful blast in central Prague. Czech Republic
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| Apr. 28 |
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French building collapse 'kills two' |
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French fisherman survives Australian croc attack |
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| Jan.16 |
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Helicopter crashes in London rush hour
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| Jan.5 |
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Italian fashion boss Missoni missing off Venezuela
A small plane carrying six people, one of them Vittorio Missoni, a director of Italy's Missoni fashion house, is missing off the coast of Ve...
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| Dec.5 |
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Rescue under way after ships collide in North Sea |
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| Aug.19 |
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British director Tony Scott dead |
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| Jul.5 |
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Pilots blamed for Air France disaster
Paris: A series of errors by pilots and a failure to react effectively to technical problems led to the crash of Flight 447, Bureau of Investigation...
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| May.30 |
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Death toll from Italy earthquake rises |
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| May.29 |
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Deadly earthquake hits northern Italy
Map of Modena Italy Northern Italy: At least 12 people were killed in a 5.8-magnitude earthquake, nine days after a 6.0-magnitude quake in the same region killed seven people
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| May.19 |
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Deadly earthquake hits heritage sites
Northern Italy: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake has killed at least six people and caused serious damage to buildings in several towns
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| Mar.3 |
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Poland suffers deadly train crash |
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| Mar.2 |
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BP reaches $7.8bn oil spill deal |
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| Feb.29 |
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Stricken vessel nears dock in Seychelles |
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| Jan.23 |
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2 more bodies found in Italy cruise crash |
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| Jan.21 |
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12th body found in cruise ship search |
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| Jan.20 |
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Rescuers halt search as cruise ship moves |
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| Jan.18 |
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Hope fades as search is suspended |
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| Jan.17 |
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Cruise captain under house arrest. Italy
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Five bodies found in cruise wreck |
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| Jan.16 |
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Cruise ship captain 'off course' |
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| Jan.15 |
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Bodies recovered from inside ill-fated ship |
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| Jan.14 |
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S. Korean Couple rescued from Italian ship |
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Italy divers scour capsized liner |
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| Jan.13 |
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Cruise ship runs aground in Italy
Map of Giglio island Italy At least six people are reported dead after the Costa Concordia carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground off Italy
| The ship hit a sandbar on Friday evening near the island and listed about 20 degrees, after which people tried to reach land in lifeboats or by swimming
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| Dec.3 |
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WWII bomb evacuation on the Rhine |
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| Sep.12 |
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Explosion reported at French nuclear site |
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| Aug.5 |
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Polar bear kills 1 Briton, injures 4 |
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| Jul.10 |
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Blast at Zygi naval base munitions dump |
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| Jun.5 |
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Beansprouts 'likely E.coli cause' |
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| Jun.2 |
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Outbreak is new form of E. coli. Germany
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| May.30 |
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E. coli infections kill 6, sicken hundreds
Hamburg: An E. coli outbreak in northern Germany was likely caused by consuming raw tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce
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| May.27 |
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Air France crash pilots lost speed data |
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| May.24 |
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Volcano ash shuts German airports |
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| Apr.6 |
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150 missing after boat capsizes off Italy |
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| Dec.24 |
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Snow paralyses transport in W. Europe Thousands of travellers have had their Christmas plans disrupted by further snowfalls across Western Europe
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| Dec.20 |
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Europe is digging airports out of snow |
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| Dec.15 |
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U.S. to sue BP over Gulf of Mexico oil spill |
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| Dec.5 |
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Egypt shark attack kills German |
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| Dec.1 |
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Snowfall disrupts northern Europe |
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| Oct.7 |
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Hungarian sludge reaches Danube
Hungary: Toxic red sludge from a spill at an industrial plant in Hungary has reached the River Danube
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| Jul.24 |
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Festival stampede kills 19
Ruhr: At least 17 people have been killed at the Love Parade electronic music festival in the German city of Duisburg after panic sparked a stampe...
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| Jul.15 |
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BP says oil has stopped leaking Louisiana: BP says it has temporarily stopped oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from its leaking well, the first time the flow has stopped since an e...
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| Jun.16 |
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US Congress set to grill BP chief |
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| Jun.4 |
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BP fits cap but yet to stop leak in Gulf |
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| May.16 |
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Ash cloud to close Heathrow and Gatwick |
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Ash closes airports in England, Ireland. Northern England
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| May.12 |
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Child is sole Libya jet crash survivor
Map of Tripoli Libya 92 passengers and 11 crew members were killed. An 8-year-old boy who is a Dutch citizen is the sole survivor of a deadly Afriqiyah Airways crash
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| May.9 |
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Volcanic ash cloud disrupts flights |
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| Apr.17 |
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Volcanic ash wreaking travel chaos 
Iceland: A cloud from an Icelandic volcano continued to blanket Europe, shutting down airspace in 23 countries and causing misery for millions of travelers
| Virtually all of Europe's major airports remain closed as a huge plume of ash drifts south and east across the continent. Airlines are losing some $200m a day in an unprecedented shutdown of commercial air travel
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| Apr.10 |
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Polish president died in plane crash
Map of Smolensk Russia Russia: Tupolev 154, carrying Lech Kaczynski, has crashed near a Russian airport. 87 people were killed; there were no survivors. Kaczynski, his wife Maria and several senior government figures were in Russia to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. They included the army chief ... | |
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| Mar.3 |
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Giant waves hit cruise ship; 2 killed |
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| Feb.28 |
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Storm batters Europe, at least 51 dead France: A winter storm named 'Xynthia' battered the western coast of Europe, its high winds downing trees and power lines
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| Feb.21 |
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Flood rescuers search streets and houses. Portugal
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| Feb.20 |
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Madeira floods and mudslides kill 43
Portugal: After torrential rains 63 others were reported have been injured on the Atlantic island, which is popular with foreign tourists
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| Feb.15 |
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18 killed in Belgian train crash |
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| Dec.21 |
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80 dead in European winter weather |
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| Dec.18 |
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Eurostar trains stuck in tunnel. England
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| Aug.23 |
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Fire threat empties Athens suburb
Map of Agios Stefanos Greece Residents of an entire Agios Stefanos have been ordered from their homes as out-of-control wildfires blaze around the Greek capital
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| Aug.8 |
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Helicopter and plane collide, 9 died. Manhattan
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| Jun.29 |
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14 die in Italian Riviera train-gas blast. Northern Italy
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| Jun.8 |
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Air France tail section recovered |
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| Jun.7 |
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Bodies found from missing Air France plane |
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| Jun.1 |
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Air France plane crashed
Map of Northeastern Brazil| Northeastern Brazil: The Airbus A330-200 with 228 people aboard reported electrical problems in stormy weather before it lost contact. The plane sent an automatic message signaling a... | |
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| Apr.9 |
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Italy mourns earthquake victims |
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| Apr.7 |
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Death toll rises to 207 in quake. Italy
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| Apr.5 |
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About 300 dead in strong quake
Map of L%27Aquila Italy| Italy: A 6.3-magnitude earthquake jolted central Italy, after a series of about a hundred minor tremors since January. This quake was caused by movement on a NW-SE trending normal fault.
The majority of the damage occurred in the medieval capital city of the Abruzzo region and the sur... | |
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| Feb.25 |
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Nine killed as Turkish plane crashes. Netherlands
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| Feb.16 |
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British, French nuclear submarines collide |
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| Feb.2 |
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Heaviest UK snow in 18 years hits flights |
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| Jan.24 |
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Four boys killed as storms collapsed roof |
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| Sep.11 |
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Fire breaks out in channel tunnel |
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| Aug.20 |
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153 dead in Madrid plane crash
Map of Madrid 19 people survived when the passenger plane swerved off the runway at Barajas airport but some are in critical condition
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| Jan.17 |
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Heathrow jet lands short of runway |
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| Aug.26 |
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Fires inch closer to Olympic cradle |
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| Aug.25 |
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63 died from forest fires
Map of Peloponnese Greece Greece: The emergency workers continue to find the bodies of people burned to death by forest fires that are raging in the south of the country
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| Aug.3 |
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Farm infected with foot-and-mouth |
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| Jul.23 |
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UK fights worst floods in 60 years. England
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| Jul.22 |
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Bus crash kills 26 Polish pilgrims |
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| May.20 |
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Fire rips through Cutty Sark |
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| Apr.5 |
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1,200 rescued from cruise ship |
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| Feb.1 |
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Warming 'very likely' human-made. Paris
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| Jan.18 |
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47 dead as storm batters Europe. London
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| Dec.1 |
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Pair test positive for polonium |
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| Nov.22 |
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No survivors in mine blast |
|
| Oct.30 |
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Warming 'may cause economic chaos' |
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| Sep.22 |
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Magnetic train crashes |
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| Sep.2 |
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14 Britons die in NATO crash |
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| Jul.3 |
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Subway crash: 41 dead |
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| May.23 |
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Greek, Turkish fighter jets crash |
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| May.6 |
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UK troops attacked after copter crash |
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| Feb.11 |
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Deadly bird flu spreads in Europe. Italy
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| Jan.28 |
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Hall collapse traps many. 66 died. Poland
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| Jan.19 |
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Slovak military plane crashes. 42 die |
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| Jan.2 |
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Rink collapse kills 15. Bavaria
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| Dec.11 |
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Fuel depot blasts injure dozens |
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| Oct.15 |
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Romania has deadly bird flu virus |
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| Aug.25 |
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Apartment fire kills 16. Paris
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| Aug.24 |
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Floods cause havoc across Europe. Romania
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| Aug.16 |
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Spanish troops die in crash |
|
| Aug.14 |
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Cypriot jet crashes; 121 dead. Athens
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| Apr.14 |
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Many killed in hotel fire |
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| Feb.24 |
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Pope has surgery to aid breathing |
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| May.23 |
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Deadly airport roof collapse. Paris
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| Jan.2 |
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Airliner crashes into Red Sea |
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| Aug.14 |
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10,000 dead in heat wave France: Paris morgues are full and air conditioned tents have been set up to hold bodies
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| Nov.19 |
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Tanker sank spilling oil |
|
| Oct.31 |
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Children killed in earthquake. Southern Italy
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| Oct.6 |
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French tanker explodes |
|
| Aug.13 |
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Prague floods surge to new peaks. Czech Republic
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| Jul.1 |
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71 dead in midair collision. West Germany
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| Apr.18 |
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Plane hits Milan skyscraper |
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| Jul.25 |
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Concorde crash kills 113
Paris: Fuel tanks were ruptured by bursting tyres on 6 separate occasions before the fatal accident
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| Jun.19 |
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58 immigrants suffocated in Dutch truck. England
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| 2009 |
|
| Aug.23 |
Fire threat empties Athens suburb
Map of Agios Stefanos Greece Residents of an entire Agios Stefanos have been ordered from their homes as out-of-control wildfires blaze around the Greek capital
| 2008 |
|
| Sep.11 |
Fire breaks out in channel tunnel |
| 2007 |
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| Aug.26 |
Fires inch closer to Olympic cradle |
|
| Aug.25 |
63 died from forest fires
Map of Peloponnese Greece Greece: The emergency workers continue to find the bodies of people burned to death by forest fires that are raging in the south of the country
|
| May.20 |
Fire rips through Cutty Sark |
| 2005 |
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| Aug.25 |
Apartment fire kills 16. Paris
|
| Apr.14 |
Many killed in hotel fire |
|
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| 2012 |
|
| May.30 |
Death toll from Italy earthquake rises |
|
| May.29 |
Deadly earthquake hits northern Italy
Map of Modena Italy Northern Italy: At least 12 people were killed in a 5.8-magnitude earthquake, nine days after a 6.0-magnitude quake in the same region killed seven people
|
| May.19 |
Deadly earthquake hits heritage sites
Northern Italy: A 6.0-magnitude earthquake has killed at least six people and caused serious damage to buildings in several towns
|
| Mar.3 |
Poland suffers deadly train crash |
| 2009 |
|
| Apr.9 |
Italy mourns earthquake victims |
|
| Apr.7 |
Death toll rises to 207 in quake. Italy
|
| Apr.5 |
About 300 dead in strong quake
Map of L%27Aquila Italy| Italy: A 6.3-magnitude earthquake jolted central Italy, after a series of about a hundred minor tremors since January. This quake was caused by movement on a NW-SE trending normal fault.
The majority of the damage occurred in the medieval capital city of the Abruzzo region and the sur... | |
| 2002 |
|
| Oct.31 |
Children killed in earthquake. Southern Italy
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| 2007 |
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| Jul.22 |
Bus crash kills 26 Polish pilgrims |
|
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| 2011 |
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| Jun.5 |
Beansprouts 'likely E.coli cause' |
|
| Jun.2 |
Outbreak is new form of E. coli. Germany
|
| May.30 |
E. coli infections kill 6, sicken hundreds
Hamburg: An E. coli outbreak in northern Germany was likely caused by consuming raw tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce
| 2006 |
|
| Dec.1 |
Pair test positive for polonium |
|
| Feb.11 |
Deadly bird flu spreads in Europe. Italy
| 2005 |
|
| Oct.15 |
Romania has deadly bird flu virus |
|
| Feb.24 |
Pope has surgery to aid breathing |
|
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| 2013 |
|
| May. 9 |
Sailor dies as US race boat capsizes San Francisco Bay Area: A British Olympic sailor has died after a Swedish catamaran capsized during a training session for the America's Cup in San Francisco Bay
|
| May. 8 |
Deaths as ship rams Genoa tower. Northern Italy
|
| May. 7 |
Deaths as ship rams Genoa tower |
| 2012 |
|
| Dec.5 |
Rescue under way after ships collide in North Sea |
|
| Feb.29 |
Stricken vessel nears dock in Seychelles |
|
| Jan.23 |
2 more bodies found in Italy cruise crash |
|
| Jan.21 |
12th body found in cruise ship search |
|
| Jan.20 |
Rescuers halt search as cruise ship moves |
|
| Jan.17 |
Cruise captain under house arrest. Italy
|
| Jan.17 |
Five bodies found in cruise wreck |
|
| Jan.16 |
Cruise ship captain 'off course' |
|
| Jan.15 |
Bodies recovered from inside ill-fated ship |
|
| Jan.14 |
S. Korean Couple rescued from Italian ship |
|
| Jan.14 |
Italy divers scour capsized liner |
|
| Jan.13 |
Cruise ship runs aground in Italy
Map of Giglio island Italy At least six people are reported dead after the Costa Concordia carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground off Italy
| The ship hit a sandbar on Friday evening near the island and listed about 20 degrees, after which people tried to reach land in lifeboats or by swimming
|
| |
| 2011 |
|
| Apr.6 |
150 missing after boat capsizes off Italy |
| 2010 |
|
| Dec.5 |
Egypt shark attack kills German |
|
| Mar.3 |
Giant waves hit cruise ship; 2 killed |
| 2009 |
|
| Feb.16 |
British, French nuclear submarines collide |
| 2007 |
|
| Apr.5 |
1,200 rescued from cruise ship |
| 2002 |
|
| Oct.6 |
French tanker explodes |
|
|
| 2011 |
|
| May.24 |
Volcano ash shuts German airports |
| 2010 |
|
| May.16 |
Ash cloud to close Heathrow and Gatwick |
|
| May.16 |
Ash closes airports in England, Ireland. Northern England
|
| May.9 |
Volcanic ash cloud disrupts flights |
|
| Apr.17 |
Volcanic ash wreaking travel chaos 
Iceland: A cloud from an Icelandic volcano continued to blanket Europe, shutting down airspace in 23 countries and causing misery for millions of travelers
| Virtually all of Europe's major airports remain closed as a huge plume of ash drifts south and east across the continent. Airlines are losing some $200m a day in an unprecedented shutdown of commercial air travel
|
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|
|
| 2006 |
|
| Nov.22 |
No survivors in mine blast |
|
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| 2013 |
|
| May. 9 |
Lightning strike injures 39 at party in Germany |
| 2010 |
|
| Dec.24 |
Snow paralyses transport in W. Europe Thousands of travellers have had their Christmas plans disrupted by further snowfalls across Western Europe
|
| Dec.20 |
Europe is digging airports out of snow |
|
| Dec.1 |
Snowfall disrupts northern Europe |
|
| Feb.28 |
Storm batters Europe, at least 51 dead France: A winter storm named 'Xynthia' battered the western coast of Europe, its high winds downing trees and power lines
| 2009 |
|
| Dec.21 |
80 dead in European winter weather |
|
| Feb.2 |
Heaviest UK snow in 18 years hits flights |
|
| Jan.24 |
Four boys killed as storms collapsed roof |
| 2007 |
|
| Jan.18 |
47 dead as storm batters Europe. London
| 2003 |
|
| Aug.14 |
10,000 dead in heat wave France: Paris morgues are full and air conditioned tents have been set up to hold bodies
|
|
| 2010 |
|
| Feb.20 |
Madeira floods and mudslides kill 43
Portugal: After torrential rains 63 others were reported have been injured on the Atlantic island, which is popular with foreign tourists
| 2007 |
|
| Jul.23 |
UK fights worst floods in 60 years. England
| 2005 |
|
| Aug.24 |
Floods cause havoc across Europe. Romania
| 2002 |
|
| Aug.13 |
Prague floods surge to new peaks. Czech Republic
|
|
| 2010 |
|
| Jul.24 |
Festival stampede kills 19
Ruhr: At least 17 people have been killed at the Love Parade electronic music festival in the German city of Duisburg after panic sparked a stampe...
|
|
| 2013 |
|
| May. 16 |
Invasive ladybirds wage 'biological war' on natives. Germany
|
| Apr. 21 |
French fisherman survives Australian croc attack |
| 2011 |
|
| Aug.5 |
Polar bear kills 1 Briton, injures 4 |
|
|
| 2013 |
|
| Jan.16 |
Helicopter crashes in London rush hour
|
| Jan.5 |
Italian fashion boss Missoni missing off Venezuela
A small plane carrying six people, one of them Vittorio Missoni, a director of Italy's Missoni fashion house, is missing off the coast of Ve...
| 2012 |
|
| Jul.5 |
Pilots blamed for Air France disaster
Paris: A series of errors by pilots and a failure to react effectively to technical problems led to the crash of Flight 447, Bureau of Investigation...
| 2011 |
|
| May.27 |
Air France crash pilots lost speed data |
| 2010 |
|
| May.12 |
Child is sole Libya jet crash survivor
Map of Tripoli Libya 92 passengers and 11 crew members were killed. An 8-year-old boy who is a Dutch citizen is the sole survivor of a deadly Afriqiyah Airways crash
|
| Apr.10 |
Polish president died in plane crash
Map of Smolensk Russia Russia: Tupolev 154, carrying Lech Kaczynski, has crashed near a Russian airport. 87 people were killed; there were no survivors. Kaczynski, his wife Maria and several senior government figures were in Russia to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. They included the army chief ... | |
| 2009 |
|
| Aug.8 |
Helicopter and plane collide, 9 died. Manhattan
|
| Jun.8 |
Air France tail section recovered |
|
| Jun.7 |
Bodies found from missing Air France plane |
|
| Jun.1 |
Air France plane crashed
Map of Northeastern Brazil| Northeastern Brazil: The Airbus A330-200 with 228 people aboard reported electrical problems in stormy weather before it lost contact. The plane sent an automatic message signaling a... | |
|
| Feb.25 |
Nine killed as Turkish plane crashes. Netherlands
| 2008 |
|
| Aug.20 |
153 dead in Madrid plane crash
Map of Madrid 19 people survived when the passenger plane swerved off the runway at Barajas airport but some are in critical condition
|
| Jan.17 |
Heathrow jet lands short of runway |
| 2006 |
|
| Sep.2 |
14 Britons die in NATO crash |
|
| May.23 |
Greek, Turkish fighter jets crash |
|
| May.6 |
UK troops attacked after copter crash |
|
| Jan.19 |
Slovak military plane crashes. 42 die |
| 2005 |
|
| Aug.16 |
Spanish troops die in crash |
|
| Aug.14 |
Cypriot jet crashes; 121 dead. Athens
| 2004 |
|
| Jan.2 |
Airliner crashes into Red Sea |
| 2002 |
|
| Jul.1 |
71 dead in midair collision. West Germany
|
| Apr.18 |
Plane hits Milan skyscraper |
| 2000 |
|
| Jul.25 |
Concorde crash kills 113
Paris: Fuel tanks were ruptured by bursting tyres on 6 separate occasions before the fatal accident
|
|
| 2012 |
|
| Mar.2 |
BP reaches $7.8bn oil spill deal |
| 2010 |
|
| Dec.15 |
U.S. to sue BP over Gulf of Mexico oil spill |
|
| Oct.7 |
Hungarian sludge reaches Danube
Hungary: Toxic red sludge from a spill at an industrial plant in Hungary has reached the River Danube
|
| Jul.15 |
BP says oil has stopped leaking Louisiana: BP says it has temporarily stopped oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from its leaking well, the first time the flow has stopped since an e...
|
| Jun.16 |
US Congress set to grill BP chief |
|
| Jun.4 |
BP fits cap but yet to stop leak in Gulf |
| 2007 |
|
| Feb.1 |
Warming 'very likely' human-made. Paris
| 2006 |
|
| Oct.30 |
Warming 'may cause economic chaos' |
| 2002 |
|
| Nov.19 |
Tanker sank spilling oil |
|
|
| 2013 |
|
| Apr. 28 |
French building collapse 'kills two' |
| 2006 |
|
| Jan.28 |
Hall collapse traps many. 66 died. Poland
|
| Jan.2 |
Rink collapse kills 15. Bavaria
| 2004 |
|
| May.23 |
Deadly airport roof collapse. Paris
|
|
| 2012 |
|
| Aug.19 |
British director Tony Scott dead |
|
|
| 2000 |
|
| Jun.19 |
58 immigrants suffocated in Dutch truck. England
|
|
| 2013 |
|
| May. 4 |
Train with chemicals derails in Belgium |
| 2010 |
|
| Feb.15 |
18 killed in Belgian train crash |
| 2009 |
|
| Dec.18 |
Eurostar trains stuck in tunnel. England
|
| Jun.29 |
14 die in Italian Riviera train-gas blast. Northern Italy
| 2006 |
|
| Sep.22 |
Magnetic train crashes |
|
| Jul.3 |
Subway crash: 41 dead |
|
|
| 2012 |
|
| Jan.18 |
Hope fades as search is suspended |
| 2010 |
|
| Feb.21 |
Flood rescuers search streets and houses. Portugal
|
|
| 2007 |
|
| Aug.3 |
Farm infected with foot-and-mouth |
|
|
| 2013 |
|
| Apr. 29 |
Powerful blast in central Prague. Czech Republic
| 2011 |
|
| Sep.12 |
Explosion reported at French nuclear site |
|
| Jul.10 |
Blast at Zygi naval base munitions dump |
| 2005 |
|
| Dec.11 |
Fuel depot blasts injure dozens |