Greymouth: Flags flew at half mast and church bells tolled across New Zealand on Thursday to mourn the country's worst mining disaster in nearly 70 years.

The government promised an independent inqui

Greymouth: All 29 miners trapped underground in a New Zealand mine for five days are believed to be dead following a second explosion in the Pike River Coal mine, police said on Wednesday.

"It is our

Greymouth: More mine rescue specialists were being rushed to New Zealand Tuesday as the grim wait to search for 29 trapped miners entered its fifth day.

The expected arrival of 18 personnel from Aust

Greymouth: The New Zealand Defence Force has decided to send in a robot into the Pike River Coal mine in a bid to rescue 29 trapped miners.

The specially adapted robot will be sent into the mine, whi

Beijing: Twenty-nine miners who were trapped in a flooded coalmine in southwest China were on rescued Monday, reports Xinhua.

The miners were pulled out of the pit around 1.18 p.m. The accident occu

Chinese rescuers lifted all the 29 miners trapped in a flooded mine in sichuan in south western China after a 30-hour operation, apparently taking a cue from a dramatic rescue in Chile last month.

Wellington, New Zealand: An explosion ripped through New Zealand's largest coal mine on Friday with about 30 people underground, officials said. Five workers, dazed and slightly injured, stumbled to t

London: It seems rescued Chilean miners are finding it tough to live a normal life, with many of them still grappling with mental and physical problems.

One of them rescued after more than two month

Beijing: Twenty-one miners were killed and 16 others are trapped underground on Saturday in a coal mine blast in China, Xinhua reported.

The blast occurred around 6am in Yuzhou city in central Henan

Beijing: With the recovery of five more bodies, the death toll in the gas explosion that hit a coal mine in China's central Henan province rose to 26 today while 11 others are still trapped undergroun