The ruins of a 2,000-year-old walled city have been found in a reservoir on north-eastern China’s border with North Korea.

Patients leapt from the windows of a four-storey hospital in northeastern China to escape a fire that killed at least 39 people, the government said today.

Japan’s government apologised today for an accident in which three people in Southern China inhaled poison gas from decaying chemical weapons abandoned by Japan’s former Imperial army.

Rescuers in northeast China were working today to free 69 coal miners trapped in a flooded mine, the government said.