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At least twelve dead in Mount Everest avalanche
Twelve Nepalese guides are dead and three people are missing in an avalanche on Mount Everest, a Nepal tourism official says.Scientists discover most earth-like planet
Astronomers have discovered what they say is the most Earth-like planet yet detected - a distant, rocky world that\'s similar in size ...Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez dies at 87
Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Márquez, who was praised as the most popular Spanish-language writer since Cervantes, died Thursday in Mexico City ...South Korean ferry rescue efforts failing to find survivors
South Korean divers resumed searching Thursday for 268 people - many of them teenagers - missing nearly 24 hours after an ocean-going ...The Largest and the Smallest Countries in the World by Area
Countries by Area Rank Country / Territory Area (km²) % of Total Continent / Region Notes — Earth 148,940,000 100% ...Powerful earthquake rattles Mexico, shakes buildings
A powerful, magnitude-7.5 earthquake shook central and southern Mexico on Friday. The U.S. Geological Survey said it was centred northwest of the ...South Korea ferry captain arrested as search for survivors continues
The captain of a South Korean ferry carrying 475 passengers that sank on Wednesday -- killing 28 and leaving 268 missing — ...Journalists charged with defaming Thai navy
Thai authorities on Thursday charged two journalists with defaming Thailand\'s navy in an online news report about the trafficking of refugees from ...Search and rescue continues for 290 missing in sunken ferry in South Korea
The search continues for 290 people still unaccounted for after ferry carrying more than 460 people capsized off the southwestern coast of ...Putin says hopes will not have to use force in eastern Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he has "a right" to send troops into Ukraine but hopes he will "not have to ...