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MANILA — The last missing passenger from a ferry that sank in southern Philippine waters with nearly 1,000 people on board has been found, disaster response officials said Tuesday.

Beijing - At least 35 people died and 44 were missing after underground gas exploded early Tuesday at a coal mine in the central Chinese province of Henan, the government said.

Authorities in Macedonia say they have detained the skipper of an overloaded sightseeing boat that sank on Saturday, killing 15 Bulgarian tourists.

Coastguards said today nine people were confirmed dead and more than 30 missing after a ferry carrying nearly 1,000 people capsized on Sunday in the southern Philippines.

HYDERABAD, India — Rescuers retrieved the bodies Thursday of a powerful Indian politician and four others whose helicopter crashed in dense jungle in southern India during a pounding rainstorm.

A Greek fire-fighting plane crashed while battling a blaze on the Ionian Sea island of Kefalonia on Thursday, killing the pilot, authorities said.

ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A small plane made an emergency landing in a mall's parking lot on Tuesday, stunning back-to-school shoppers, and the pilot and a passenger emerged with only minor injuries.

TETERBORO, N.J. — Two men ferrying medical specimens walked away from a fiery small-plane crash Friday morning at an airport, and emergency responders found them at a nearby bus stop, alert and conscious, but badly burned.

Sixty-four people missing after a flooding disaster at Russia's largest hydro-electric dam are most likely dead, its owner said on Tuesday, indicating a likely death toll far higher than the 12 confirmed so far. "Finding anyone alive in the flood ...

At least 54 people are missing after an explosion at Russia's largest hydro-electric power station killed eight workers, investigators say.