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69 days after being trapped underground at a depth of 625 meters, all of the 33 miners were hoisted to safety on Oct 13...[more]
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Darlene Etienne, 17, survived 15 days under the rubble after an 8-magnitude earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti...[more]
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A Libyan Airbus jet crashed early on May 13, killing 103 people and leaving a young Dutch boy the sole survivor...[more]
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Sean Lian, KMT honorary chairman's son, was shot in the face and critically wounded in an election campaign rally in Taipei at 8 pm, Nov 26. A 3 1/2-hour surgery saved his life...[more]
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Two carriages of a passenger train fell into a river after floods destroyed a bridge on a railway. The driver made an emergency stop and ordered all passengers off the train before it derailed...[more]
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On March 28, an accident at the Wangjialing Coal Mine in Shanxi province trapped 153 miners underground. After an ordeal of eight days and eight nights, 115 were rescued, a remarkable feat in the history of Chinese mines...[more]
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About 400 residents of the Yao ethnic group at a village in Lingyun county of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region were evacuated to safety before a landslide triggered lingering rainstorms and ravaged their homes...[more]
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Three teenaged boys were rescued after spending 50 days adrift in the South Pacific and reached land in Fiji...[more]
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Reporter Liu Yang's life was at risk as she was washed away by floodwaters before firefighters came to the rescue...[more]
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A Beijing cyclist shot to fame after his miraculous escape from a deadly car crash without being injured...[more]
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