An electrical fire inside a coal shaft in northern China left 28 miners dead, a government official said today.

A man armed with a meat cleaver killed seven children and two adults at a Chinese nursery today, the latest in a series of savage assaults on the country's schools.

Seven children and a teacher were hacked to death and at least 20 others injured today at a kindergarten in China’s north-west Shaanxi province.

A landslide swept over a village in north-west China covering dozens of homes and leaving at least 17 dead and 11 missing, reports said today.

Hundreds of workers in northern China are battling to contain an oil spill that has left a 20-mile (33-kilometre) stretch of river polluted with diesel.

A CITY in northern China killed more than 20,000 dogs over 10 days to deal with an outbreak of rabies.

The former chairwoman of the dairy company at the heart of China’s tainted milk scandal went on trial today on charges of selling fake or substandard products.

The death toll from a coal mine explosion last week in northern China rose to 24 with the discovery of another body today, a state news report said.

Chinese authorities prepared to begin draining a swelling earthquake-formed lake today after evacuating nearly 200,000 people and warning more than a million others to be ready to leave quickly.

Chinese quake rescuers struggled with flooded rivers and dams in danger of collapse threatening to add to the devastation today.

Heavy rains this week in northern China have triggered flooding that has killed 17 people and left another 33 missing, the official Xinhua News Agency said today.

A piglet with two snouts and three eyes has been born at a farm in northern China’s Shaanxi province.

A cache of illegal dynamite has exploded in a village in northern China, killing at least 11 people, injuring 20 and demolishing buildings, the government announced today.

AT least 166 workers were trapped yesterday after an explosion tore through a central Chinese coal mine, sending smoke billowing from air vents, the government said. Another 127 miners escaped.

At least 166 workers were trapped today after an explosion tore through a central Chinese coal mine, sending smoke billowing out from air vents, the government said.

A gas explosion today in a coal mine in central China has left 187 miners trapped, the government said.

BIRD flu has killed three house cats in Thailand, a development the World Health Organisation described as “very dangerous” because of pets’ close contact with people.

Thirteen people have been killed in an explosion at an illegal fireworks factory in northwest China, a local government official said today.

At least 33 people have been killed and more than 120 are missing after torrential rain in western China.

A blast at a storage site for explosives has killed 41 people and injured 89 in north west China.