As earthquake survivors braced themselves for the possibilities of more aftershocks on Tuesday, reports emerged of a man being rescued after spending 179 hours trapped under a heap of rubble in China's devastated Sichuan province. Ma Yuanjiang, a 31-year-old power plant executive, was at a meeting when the massive earthquake struck on May 12 and his office building in Wenchuan County collapsed around him, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported. Rescuers spotted him Monday while working to free one of his colleagues, but it took them more than 30 hours to get Ma out. While rescuers worked, they kept Ma alive by sending him sugar water to drink through a long straw. When Ma was finally pulled free at 5 a.m. local time on Tuesday, he was able to speak and eat, fellow power plant employee Wu Geng said. The other colleague rescued at the Yingxiu Bay hydro power plant could only be freed after having her legs amputated during a more than...
Flooding across southern China has killed 57 people in recent days. More than a million have been forced to abandon their homes for safer ground. China's rainy season is notoriously deadly. But...
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Accepting his Nobel Peace Prize on Monday at Oslo's city hall, former U.S. vice-president Al Gore said the United States and China would be held accountable if they fail to move boldly against...
Talks at the UN climate conference were extended Friday as U.S. and European Union negotiators were reportedly close to a compromise solution to end a stalemate on how far a new international...
Dogged by continuing questions over the Maxime Bernier resignation, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stopped off in Bonn, Germany, Wednesday to tell a United Nations biodiversity conference that...
Leaders of the 53-member Commonwealth produced a statement on Saturday stripped of any reference to binding targets for greenhouse gas emissions. - Canada and Australia had been the lone...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is facing heavy political pressure to agree to binding targets for greenhouse gas emissions as Commonwealth summit delegates in Uganda attempt to form a strong, united...
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