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Search resumes for 11 missing in Mexico mudslide (AP)

September 29th, 2010

Soldiers, police officers and residents search for victims after a landslide Santa Maria de Tlahuitoltepec, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010. A mudslide first thought to have buried hundreds of people has left 11 missing and there are no confirmed deaths, authorities said Tuesday night, backing off earlier predictions of a catastrophe in Mexico's rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)AP - Rescue efforts resumed Wednesday for 11 people missing after a hillside collapsed on a town in Mexico’s rain-soaked southern state of Oaxaca.


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Egyptian minister: Search still on for van Gogh (AP)

August 21st, 2010

Two Italians were arrested at Cairo airport trying to smuggle out a Van Gogh painting stolen from a museum earlier on Saturday, Egypt's Culture Minister Faruq Hosni, pictured in 2009, told AFP.(AFP/File/Khaled Desouki)AP - Egypt’s culture minister on Saturday retracted his claim that police had recovered a van Gogh painting stolen from a Cairo museum, saying it was based on inaccurate information…

Relatives search for corpses at Pakistan air crash (AP)

July 29th, 2010

Pakistani rescue workers visit the site of plane crashed in Islamabad, Pakistan on Wednesday, July 28, 2010. A government official says all the people on board the plane that crashed in the hills surrounding Pakistan's capital were killed. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Relatives desperate to find the bodies of their loved ones joined emergency teams battling thick mud, rain and slippery hillsides on Thursday at the scene of Pakistan’s worst-ever…

Rain slows search for dead in Pakistan plane crash (AP)

July 29th, 2010

A video grab shows debris from a commercial Pakistani passenger plane lying scattered amid shrubbery in hills near the capital, Islamabad, July 28, 2010.  Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of at least 20 people from the wreckage of a Pakistani passenger plane which crashed near the capital on Wednesday, an official said.  The Airblue jet was carrying 146 passengers and six crewmen. REUTERS/via Reuters TVbr /<br /></a> (PAKISTAN - Tags: TRANSPORT DISASTER)AP - Emergency teams battled heavy rains and mud Thursday to recover bodies strewn over hills overlooking the Pakistani capital following the country’s worst-ever plane crash.


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Search under way for California teen on solo sail (AP)

June 10th, 2010

FILE - In this Saturday, Jan 23, 2010 picture, Abby Sunderland, 16, looks out from her sailboat, Wild Eyes, as she leaves for her world record attempting journey at the Del Rey Yacht Club in Marina del Rey, Calif. Rescuers searched Thursday, June 10, 2010 for her somewhere between Africa and Australia. He says emergency beacons were activated overnight and there has been a loss of communication. She was feared in trouble in the southern Indian Ocean. (AP Photo/Richard Hartog)AP - Authorities say a search effort is under way in the stormy southern Indian Ocean to find a Southern California girl feared in trouble during an attempt to sail…

Mexico suspends search for missing ex-candidate (AP)

May 22nd, 2010

A billboard with an image of former presidential candidate Diego Fernandez de Cevallos reads in Spanish 'Diego, we are with you' in Queretaro, Mexico, Wednesday, May 19, 2010. Authorities said there is no evidence any armed group is behind the disappearance of Fernandez de Cevallos, and People's Revolutionary Army, Mexico' most active guerrilla group, said it does not know what happened to him. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini)AP - Mexican authorities have suspended their investigation into the disappearance of a former presidential candidate at his family’s request.


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Rescuers prepare for search in flooded China mine (AP)

April 4th, 2010

Rescue workers put on apparatus to assist in breathing before they enter one of the shaft at the Wangjialing Coal Mine in Xiangning county in north China's Shanxi province, Sunday, April 4, 2010. Search and rescue continue almost a week after water flooded a mine, trapping 153 miners. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Rescue workers set up equipment and prepared Sunday to mount an operation to try to find survivors among 153 trapped miners in a northern China, saying they have…

SKorea suspends underwater search operation (AP)

March 31st, 2010

A South Korean Marine looks through a telescope to search for missing members of a sunken naval ship on the beach on South Korea's Baengnyeong Island on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. The 1,200-ton Cheonan, on a routine patrol with other vessels, went down near the tense maritime border with North Korea following a mysterious explosion late Friday. No one has been found since an initial rescue of 58 sailors from the Cheonan. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)AP - Stormy conditions forced the military to suspend the search for 46 sailors missing since a mysterious blast blew apart their navy ship last week, officials said Wednesday, a…

New search starting for Air France black boxes (AP)

March 25th, 2010

Norway's Seabed Worker, one of the ships that will be used in the third search of a crashed plane's black boxes, is seen at the port of Recife, Brazil, Thursday, March 25, 2010. French investigators probing last year's mysterious crash of an Air France jet in the mid-Atlantic are gearing up for a third search for the plane's black boxes and an explanation for why it plunged into the ocean. All 228 aboard died. (AP Photo/Otavio de Souza)AP - The lead investigator of last year’s Air France jetliner crash that killed 228 people off the coast of Brazil said Thursday he hopes a third search for debris…

New tip leads Aruba to search for missing US teen (AP)

March 20th, 2010

In this October 2009 underwater photo provided by John F. Muldowney, is shown a portion of the ocean floor off the coast of Aruba. Muldowney feels the photo, taken by his wife, Patti, while the couple was on vacation in Aruba, may show the remains of Natalee Holloway, the Alabama honors student who disappeared in Aruba nearly five years ago. The Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era reported that the photo has been turned over to the FBI. (AP Photo/Patti Muldowney) NO SALESAP - Authorities will search once again for a missing U.S. teen after an American couple took an underwater picture of what they believe might be Natalee Holloway’s remains, a…