Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:50:02 +0200 (Reuters) - The statue of Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortez is tangled up in police tape, usually used to demarcate crime scenes, and his head covered with a plastic bag in Cuernavaca October 12, 2011. People wrapped the statue with tape and a bag to protest against the spiralling drug violence and to mark 519th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas. REUTERS/Margarito Perez Retana (MEXICO - Tags: ANNIVERSARY CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY)
The United States and the world struggled to come to grips with ...
Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:20:05 +0200 (AFP) - The United States and the world struggled to come to grips with the first-ever US credit rating downgrade, as Washington is held to account for months of political acrimony and years of swelling US debt. Duration: 01:54
Workers clear the wreckage of mangled carriages after a Chinese ...
Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:40:05 +0200 (AFP) - Workers clear the wreckage of mangled carriages after a Chinese high-speed train derailed when it was hit from behind by another express late on July 23 in the town of Shuangyu near the city of Wenzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province. Chinese railway stocks have slumped after the deadly accident.(AFP)
Chinese firefighters work on the mangled wreckage of a train ...
Sun, 24 Jul 2011 09:10:02 +0200 (AFP) - Chinese firefighters work on the mangled wreckage of a train carriage as they work to rescue survivors in eastern China's Zhejiang province. Hours after the accident, which occurred on the outskirts of the city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, the government launched an "urgent overhaul" of rail safety nationwide.(AFP)
People walk through the grass near the mangled carriages of ...
Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:40:02 +0200 (Reuters) - People walk through the grass near the mangled carriages of a train which derailed near Fatehpur, about 80km (50 miles) southwest of Kanpur in the state of Uttar Pradesh, July 10, 2011. At least nine people were killed and more than 150 injured in northern India when nearly a dozen coaches of a passenger train got derailed, officials said on Sunday. REUTERS/Jitendra Prakash (INDIA - Tags: TRANSPORT DISASTER)
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