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Mecca crane collapse highlights city's development boom The deadly collapse of a construction crane in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca has highlighted the controversial pace of high-end urban development in the birthplace of Islam.

14 September 2015

Japan PM visits flood-hit town as rescuers search for missing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited a disaster-struck city north of Tokyo in the aftermath of massive flooding that killed at least three people.

12 September 2015

No 'specific or credible threats' linked to 9/11 anniversary: FBI chief The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that it has picked up no "specific or credible threats" linked to the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.

11 September 2015

Floods spark evacuations as Japan is deluged Tens of thousands of people were ordered to flee homes across Japan as heavy rain pounded the country, sending radiation-tainted waters into the ocean at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

10 September 2015

France confirms wing part found on Reunion is from MH370 French prosecutors confirmed Thursday that a wing part found on a remote Indian Ocean island was from ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

04 September 2015

20,000 march in Austria after migrant truck tragedy Around 20,000 people took to the streets of Vienna on Monday to demonstrate against ill-treatment of migrants.

01 September 2015

Five dead in explosion at Spain fireworks factory At least five people died and another six were injured on Monday in an explosion at a fireworks factory in northeastern Spain.

01 September 2015

Bush praises New Orleans 'resilience' after Katrina Former president George W. Bush, who faced fierce criticism for the botched government response to Hurricane Katrina, returned to New Orleans to mark the storm's 10th anniversary.

29 August 2015

More than 70 dead in Austrian migrant truck tragedy: government The bodies of more than 70 dead migrants have been recovered from an abandoned truck found on an Austrian motorway, more than the initial estimate of between 20 and 50.

28 August 2015

Fires in US state of Washington largest in its history A group of wildfires blazing in the western US state of Washington have become the largest in the state's history, and 2015 has become the state's worst fire year on record.

25 August 2015

Obama declares wildfire emergency in Washington state President Barack Obama declared an emergency for wildfire-ravaged Washington state, as Australia and New Zealand sent firefighters to help US crews.

22 August 2015

Remembering New Orleans chaos, 10 years after Katrina Hurricane Katrina's deadly winds tore up roofs, yanked trees from the ground, and pushed towering walls of seawater miles past the coast.

22 August 2015

France calls off search for MH370 wreckage off Reunion France said it was calling off the hunt for wreckage from missing flight MH370 after 10 days of air and sea searches off its Indian Ocean territory of Reunion yielded no results.

18 August 2015

Chinese media lambast Tianjin officials over blast response Chinese state-run media lambasted officials in the port city of Tianjin for a lack of transparency over the massive explosions at an industrial site.

17 August 2015

Indonesian plane searching for missing aircraft spots debris: official A plane searching for an Indonesian passenger aircraft that went missing in the remote eastern province of Papua with 54 people on board at the weekend on Monday spotted debris.

17 August 2015

Death toll rises to 85 in China blasts: officials The number of people killed in giant explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin has risen to 85.

15 August 2015

Huge China explosions leave scores dead, hundreds injured Enormous explosions in a major Chinese port city killed at least 44 people and injured more than 500, leaving a devastated industrial landscape of incinerated cars, toppled shipping containers and burnt-out buildings.

13 August 2015

France to conduct MH370 searches off Reunion until Monday France will conduct air and sea searches off its Indian Ocean territory of Reunion until the start of next week for debris from missing flight MH370.

13 August 2015

Typhoon Soudelor kills 14 in China: state media Typhoon Soudelor killed 14 people in eastern China and four are missing after parts of the country were hit by the heaviest rains in a century.

10 August 2015

France hunts for more MH370 debris off Reunion island France launched a hunt for more wreckage from the ill-fated MH370 plane off Reunion island on Friday in a fresh effort to shed light on one of aviation's biggest mysteries.

08 August 2015

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