At least four people including an eight-year-old girl have been rescued from a high-rise Taiwanese apartment building toppled by a powerful earthquake two days earlier.

Two survivors were pulled out from a toppled high-rise building In Taiwan, two days after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 37 people.

A US jury is deciding whether a former BP engineer broke the law or harmlessly swiped his finger across a mobile phone when he deleted hundreds of text messages in the aftermath of the deadly Gulf of Mexico oil spill.