An Australian fisherman has hung onto his father's body, a portable cooler and an emergency beacon after a wave capsized their boat off Brisbane, Australian authorities have said on Monday.
Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi declared the state of emergency in a speech addressing the nation on Saturday, stressing Tunisia is going through difficult circumstances that require exceptional measures.
Chinese health authorities on Friday asked hospitals to use online suppliers to purchase emergency medicine.
The Nigerian House of Representatives on Thursday rejected the request by President Goodluck Jonathan to further extend the emergency rule in the three northeastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe.
The trial of seven Italian scientists and experts for manslaughter over the 2009 earthquake in L'Aquila highlighted Italy's pressing need of an effective emergency risk communication strategy, analysts said.
Hong Kong's Secretary for Security Lai Tung-kwok said on Wednesday that the Occupy movement has had impacts on Hong Kong's emergency rescue services and has put Hong Kong people at risk.
Four people were injured on Thursday when a JetBlue flight with 147 people aboard made an emergency landing due to an engine problem shortly after takeoff from Long Beach Airport, southern California.
An apartment in Pyongyang, capital city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), collapsed on Tuesday during construction, causing serious casualties, the official news agency KCNA said Sunday.
A hospital in Singapore started offering a 50 percent discount on Monday to emergency patients who see a general practitioner first.
An odd-even ban on car use will be implemented on heavily polluted days in Guangzhou City of south China's Guangdong Province
The Philippine government is beefing up emergency employment program to help alleviate the plight of workers displaced by typhoon Haiyan, or Yolanda. a government official said Sunday.
Egypt will end a three-month-long state of emergency and curfew on Thursday, state-run MENA news agency reported on Wednesday, quoting a cabinet source.
Egypt extended state of emergency that was scheduled to end on Thursday by two months, official news agency MENA reported.
A woman in her 50s died Friday in the back of an ambulance during Beijing's afternoon rush hour, as barely any cars made way for the ambulance. The tragedy has triggered a wave of heated debate and soul-searching on the Internet.
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