Britons led rescue from sole hotel
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LAST call, last call, came the cry as the minibuses chugged through the ruins of the palm-fringed paradise that was once Unawatuna.
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Helicopters and boats rescued people in Britain and Northern Europe as heavy rains caused flooding and 128 mph winds downed trees and power lines.
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Rescuers dug through the rubble of a luxury hotel on Egypt&#39;s Sinai Peninsula yesterday as the confirmed death stood at 24, with about 100 people
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A Briton living in Thailand today told how survivors of the sea surges which have wrecked the countryâs southern tourist resorts had to tread over bodies to escape.
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Rescuers were hoping for "individual miracles" of survival as they combed the beaches and islands of southern Thailand Wednesday for missing tourists and locals swept away by earthquake-powered tidal waves. Among them were more than 2,000 Scandinavians and 200 guests at a French-owned hotel.
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Eighty exhausted snorkelers were rescued after the huge tsunami that hit southern Thailand swept them into a famed limestone cave killing a Malaysian couple.
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One person is injured and another remains trapped after the top two floors of a London building collapse.
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Eleven students and two supervisors rescued after being trapped for four hours in North Yorkshire
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One rescued hostage details what happened during the 53-hour ordeal.
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LONDON, July 23 -- Britain's worst flooding in decades left tens of thousands of families without water or electricity Monday night and forced thousands from their homes, including some dramatically rescued from rising waters by helicopters and boats.
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A rescue boat is brought in to help five people trapped in a building after flash floods in south Wales.
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LONDON, England -- A massive rescue operation is continuing for 15 people missing from a flood-ravaged coastal town in southwestern England.
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Two people are rescued by fire crews after becoming trapped inside a burning flat in Antrim.
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A major rescue operation begins after a yacht capsizes in the English Channel, with one crew member still missing.
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LONDON: Rescue workers combed an English coastal village in north Cornwall yesterday for people missing after a flash flood caused by torrential rain hit Britain&#39;s southwestern Atlantic coast.
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Emergency services tackle a major incident as a building in east London collapses.
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Five people were rescued by coastguards today after spending eight days at sea in a life-raft. The survivors were picked up off the coast of Cornwall this morning and are being treated in hospital, a coastguard ...