Taiwan leaders, already under fire over the response to a typhoon that likely killed hundreds, have accepted foreign aid after earlier refusing the offers, officials said on Saturday, as the president apologized. Trying to repair its image after Typhoon Morakot …
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Death Toll Rises to 17 in Italy Train Derailment
More than a day after a freight train derailed and exploded on the Italian coast, officials raised the death toll to 17, including two small children and an unidentified man who subsequently died of severe burns, news agencies reported. The …
Missing plane sent 24 error messages
Air France Flight 447 sent out 24 automated error messages — including one saying the aircraft’s autopilot had disengaged — before it vanished with 228 people on board, aviation investigators said Saturday. But even as they analyzed the error messages …
Air France plane lost: officials say ‘no hope’ of finding airliner
More than 200 people are believed dead after an Air France passenger jet disappeared over the Atlantic on a flight from Brazil. Officials said they had “no hope” for Air France Flight 447 which dropped off the radar three hours …