Australia celebrates rescue of trapped miners

Punching the air and hugging their families, two Australian miners who spent two weeks trapped in a kennel-sized cage nearly 3,000 feet underground walked out of Beaconsfield Gold Mine before dawn today after a marathon effort to free them.

Hundreds of well-wishers gathered at the mine gates erupted in cheers when Brant Webb, 37, and Todd Russell, 34, emerged, their head torches glowing in the pre-dawn light.