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Chilean family survives quake, faces mine collapse (AP)

August 27th, 2010

Carola Narvaez, wife of Raul Bustos, one of 33 miners trapped in the collapsed San Jose mine, stands in a shelter for relatives outside the mine in Copiapo, Chile, Thursday Aug. 26, 2010.  Narvaez and her husband survived Chile's massive February earthquake. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - Carola Narvaez breathed in the Atacama Desert’s cold dawn air and slowly began to exhale the story of how her family survived a devastating earthquake and worked to…

Australia votes on whether first woman PM survives (AP)

August 20th, 2010

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, front right, waves as she walks through a shopping center in Sydney's suburb of Ryde Friday, Aug. 20, 2010. A national election will be held Saturday. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)AP - Australians choose Saturday whether they will cut down their first woman prime minister after only two months in power and return to conservative rule in a cliffhanger election…

Stowaway survives flight next to jet landing gear (AP)

June 9th, 2010

AP - A 20-year-old Romanian who said he was looking for work hid himself in the wheel well of a jet parked at Vienna’s airport and survived a 1 1/2-hour…

Thai PM survives no-confidence vote after turmoil (AP)

June 2nd, 2010

Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, right, and his deputy Suthep Thuagsuban watch the voting scores on a screen from their seats during a vote on censure motion against both of them at parliament in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, June 2, 2010. Thailand's prime minister on Wednesday survived a no-confidence motion lodged by the opposition accusing him of brutally suppressing last month's mass protests in the capital. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong)AP - Thailand’s beleaguered prime minister survived a no-confidence vote Wednesday called after months of anti-government protests crippled the capital and street battles left nearly 90 people dead.


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Libyan plane crash kills 96, Dutch boy survives (AP)

May 12th, 2010

Rescue teams search the site of the Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane crash in Tripoli, Libya Wednesday, May 12, 2010. A Libyan Afriqiyah Airways plane with 104 people on board crashed on landing Wednesday at the airport in the Libyan capital Tripoli and a search and rescue operation was under way, the airlines said. (AP Photo/Abdel Meguid al-Fergany)AP - A Libyan plane crashed Wednesday on approach to Tripoli’s airport, killing at least 96 people and leaving a field scattered with smoldering debris that included a large chunk…