Disasters and Accidents
Japan acknowledges first radiation death from nuclear plant.
A magnitude 6.7 earthquake hit the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Emergency services have received hundreds of calls about missing and injured people. The quake triggered large scale landslides which covered surrounding homes.
Passengers were marooned after a tanker hit a bridge.
Vladimir Begiyan died of a heart attack.
The incident, in March, was the Himalayan nation's worst aviation disaster for 26 years.
President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency on the island.
A break in the relentless monsoon rains has allowed Indian rescue workers and military to access people stranded by the record-breaking flooding. 370 people have died during the monsoon season due to floods and landslides and hundreds of thousand of people are displaced and relying on emergency relief camps.
She said she is 'lucky to be alive'.
Dozens lost their lives in the disaster.
Hundreds of rescue workers search for survivors as a state of emergency is declared.