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Worker dead after being pulled from rubble of collapsed Roman medieval tower

Firefighters managed to extract a worker from beneath rubble inside a medieval tower that partially collapsed during renovation work in the heart of Italy’s capital, but died shortly after.

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UN secretary-general calls for Sudan cease-fire as conflict is ‘spiraling out of control’

The United Nations secretary-general warned Tuesday that the war in Sudan is “spiraling out of control” after a paramilitary force seized the besieged and famine-stricken Darfur city of el-Fasher.

Wild video shows moment high-speed passenger train plows into truck carrying thousands of pears

CCTV footage has captured the terrifying moment a high-speed passenger train ploughed into a cargo truck carrying thousands of pears in the Netherlands.

Typhoon leaves at least 26 dead in Philippines after floods ravage central region

Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 26 people dead in the Philippines, mostly in flooding set off by the storm, which barreled across the central part of the country, disaster response officials said.