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WORLD / NEWS Fri Nov 23, 2007 @ 8:31am neoform

BBC News -- More than 150 passengers and crew have been rescued from a stricken tourist ship after it hit ice off Antarctica. The M/S Explorer is listing at 30 degrees close to the South Shetland Islands, in the Antarctic Ocean. Coastguards said some 100 passen.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Oct 24, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Fifty-four miners who spent nearly eight hours trapped underground by a fire in an Australian gold mine Wednesday were rescued, the mining company said. Workers at the Barrick Gold Corp.'s Kanowa Belle mine near the southwestern mining town of Kalgoorl.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Oct 4, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

USA Today -- More than 1,500 trapped gold miners were rescued during a dramatic all-night operation in this country's mining heartland, and hundreds more exhausted workers were expected to be brought back to the surface Thursday. About 3,200 miners were trapped Wed.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Jun 8, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

BBC News -- Thirty-one dirty and disorientated workers have been rescued from a brickwork factory in China, where they were being held as virtual slaves. Eight workers were so traumatised by their experiences that they were only able to remember their names. Th.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Feb 9, 2007 @ 10:38am mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- Two anti-whaling protesters were dramatically rescued from the freezing waters of the Antarctic today after angry clashes at sea between environmentalists and the crew of a Japanese whaling ship. One of the men, part of a group of activists trying to s.. Read More