Millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein had been taken off suicide watch before he apparently killed himself in jail in New York while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

RESCUE crews have recovered all bodies from a coal mine in northern Mexico hit by a gas explosion last week, putting the death toll at 14.

The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a record $87m (€59m) fine against oil giant BP for failing to correct safety hazards after a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers and injured 170 at its Texas City refinery.

A rebel leader’s son who ushered in a peace plan was sworn in today as the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s first freely-elected president in more than four decades.

Survival was impossible for 65 coal miners trapped underground by an explosion that burned away oxygen and left toxic gases a week ago in northern Mexico, mining company officials announced today.