Fifty-six people have been confirmed dead and another 14 remain missing after an earthquake hit northwest China's Gansu Province on Monday morning, local authorities said.
About 3,000 Los Angeles County government employees staged a rally Tuesday asking for an end to a five-year salary freeze.
On Friday a devastating landslide engulfed a small county in the mountains of southwest China's Yunnan Province, claiming more than 40 lives...Now, families who lost their beloved ones are questioning whether the disaster was natural - or man-triggered.
The death toll from a landslide in southwest China's Yunnan Province on Friday rose to eight as more bodies were retrieved from the debris, local authorities said.