Rescuers wearing headlamps and oxygen backpacks carried dozens of miners to safety today after a gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China killed at least 74.

A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in northern China today, killing at least 73 miners and trapping dozens in the still-burning shaft, an official said. It was the country’s deadliest coal mine accident in more than a year.

A two-storey building collapsed as it was being demolished in central China, killing six workers and trapping 26 others in the rubble.

CHINA launched a second research satellite into orbit yesterday as part of a joint project with the European Space Agency to study the Earth’s magnetic field.

China launched a second research satellite into orbit today as part of a joint project with the European Space Agency to study the Earth’s magnetic field.

A five-year-old boy was beaten to death by his father in northern China after he failed to count to 100 as demanded, a newspaper reported today. The father was charged with murder.