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Crash investigators hunt for India plane black box (Reuters) PDF Print E-mail

Forensic officials inspect the wreckage of a crashed Air India Express passenger plane in Mangalore May 23, 2010. REUTERS/Rupak De ChowdhuriReuters - Investigators scoured the slopes of a ravine in southern India on Sunday looking for the black box of a Boeing 737-800 that crashed off a hilltop runway, killing 158 people.


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BA strikes set to go ahead after talks founder (AP) PDF Print E-mail

British Airways planes are seen behind fencing at Heathrow airport in London, Friday, May 21, 2010. British Airways PLC has posted a record full-year net loss of 425 million pounds ($612 million) thanks to the recession, a tough winter and strikes by cabin crews in March. Friday's earnings update from the carrier, which is currently facing 15 more days of walkouts in a bitter dispute with cabin crews over changes to pay and working conditions is slightly better than had been feared. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - The union representing British Airways cabin crew said no new talks with the airline were scheduled and a series of planned strikes will begin Monday.


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Train hits landslide, derails in China, killing 19 (AP) PDF Print E-mail

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescuers work at the site where a passenger train derailed in Dongxiang County, east China's Jiangxi Province, Sunday, May 23, 2010. The passenger train hit by landslides derailed Sunday in eastern China, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 50 others, state television reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua,Chen Chunyuan) ** NO SALES **AP - A passenger train hit by landslides derailed Sunday in eastern China, killing at least 19 people and injuring more than 70 others, state media reported. The latest death toll jumped from initial reports of eight killed, as rescuers dug out more bodies from mangled and overturned train carriages, the official Xinhua News Agency said.


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Hunt for clues after India crash kills 158; 8 live (AP) PDF Print E-mail

An earth remover cleans the site of the Air India Express plane crash in Mangalore, in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, Sunday, May 23, 2010. Grieving relatives collected the victims' remains from the crashed plane and investigators sifted through the rubble Sunday for the cockpit voice and the flight data recorder after India's worst air disaster in more than a decade. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)AP - Investigators searching for clues as to what caused India's worst air disaster in more than a decade recovered the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder Sunday from the charred remains of an Air India flight.


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Australia says door open on mining 'super tax' (AFP) PDF Print E-mail

A coal dredger tears into the face of the Loy Yang Open Cut coal mine in Latrobe Valley near Melbourne. Australia has signalled it is open to compromise on the controversial plan to tax the AFP - Australia signalled Sunday it is open to compromise on the controversial plan to tax the "super profits" of the Asian-driven mining boom but insisted the 40 percent headline rate will stay.


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