CHICAGO: Three young US women who went missing around a decade ago -- two of whom disappeared as teenagers -- were found alive Monday in a house in Cleveland, as police arrested three suspects.The dramatic discovery -- just a few miles from where the women went missing -- ended years of anguished searching by their families and drew hundreds of cheering people to the usually quiet, residential street in the state of Ohio....
MANILA: Five people are feared dead after one of the Philippines' most active volcanoes spewed a giant ash cloud on Tuesday, with foreign tourists on its slopes during the eruption, authorities said.National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council chief Eduardo del Rosario said local officials reported that up to 20 climbers and guides, including foreigners, were on Mount Mayon when it erupted....
LONDON: A deputy speaker of Britain's lower house of parliament said Sunday that allegations of raping one man and sexually assaulting another were completely false, adding that he had previously regarded both men as friends.Nigel Evans, 55, a lawmaker in Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party, issued the denial a day after he was questioned over the alleged attacks on two men in their twenties....
DHAKA - The UN's labour agency urged Bangladesh to close unsafe factories as rescuers Saturday pulled more bodies from the wreckage of the nation's worst industrial disaster in which at least 548 have died. The collapse of the eight-storey garment factory complex outside Dhaka last week was the latest in a string of catastrophes to befall the country's $20 billion textile industry which accounts for 80 percent of Bangladesh's exports....
DHAKA: The death toll from last week's collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh passed 500 Friday as the country's prime minister said Western retailers had to share some of the blame for the tragedy.With bulldozers now clawing away at the mountain of rubble at the site of last Wednesday's disaster, the number of bodies being recovered from the country's deadliest industrial disaster has been increasing sharply....
BRUSSELS: Europe needs to come up with a plan within weeks to end the nightmare of mounting youth unemployment, Italy's new premier Enrico Letta and European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said Thursday.Winding up his first European tour since being sworn in on Sunday, Letta urged the European Union to offer concrete measures to its recession-hit citizens and jobless youths in order to revive hope in the EU's future....
HANOI: From factory fires to slave labour, the growth of mass manufacturing in Southeast Asia has not been problem-free, but after shedding its sweatshop reputation the region could have lessons for Bangladesh.Last week's building collapse near Dhaka that left 550 dead or missing has unleashed global concern about conditions in the factories that produce fast fashion -- cheap, catwalk-inspired clothes -- for top global brands....
THE HAGUE: Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander became Europe's youngest monarch on Tuesday after his mother, Queen Beatrix, abdicated and his country hailed the avowedly 21st-century king with a massive, orange-hued party."I Queen Beatrix... abdicate in favour of my son Willem-Alexander," the act said, as read out before the signing that was broadcast live from the Amsterdam palace....
ROME: Italy's new prime minister will face an early test of his mission to reverse Europe's austerity course Tuesday as he meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel after vowing to stop a policy he says is killing his country.Enrico Letta's first official trip abroad comes a day after the new PM said his coalition government would act fast to reverse austerity, in a hard-hitting inaugural speech watched...
DHAKA: Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers walked out of their factories Monday, demanding the death penalty for the owner of a tower block that collapsed and killed at least 381 of their colleagues.Managers at all of the country's 4,500 garment factories had given workers an unscheduled two days holiday over the weekend in the hope that anger over last Wednesday's disaster at the Rana Plaza would subside....
