A coal mine blast in northern China left at least 54 workers dead and another 22 missing, the government said today.

An explosion tore through a mine in northern China today, leaving at least 123 workers missing, the government said.

SOME 50,000 people may have died in Friday's Iranian earthquake, officials said yesterday, as relief workers pleaded for more aid for survivors of one of the deadliest natural disasters of modern times.

A strong earthquake in western China’s Xinjiang region today killed seven people and caused the collapse of some houses, the government said.