BEIJING - Six people have been killed and one injured in a gold mine accident in northern suburbs of Beijing, local authorities said Sunday.

Rescuers have found two miners' bodies in a flooded colliery in Shaanxi Province, but nine remain missing more than 75 hours after the flood.

XI'AN - Eleven miners were missing in a coal mine flooding accident Monday in Northwest China's Shaanxi province, authorities said.

Four more people have been found dead after last week's explosion at a petrochemical plant in southeastern Mexico, raising the death toll to 32, state oil giant Pemex and Mexican plastic pipe maker

A fire broke out at a chemical plant in Eastern Saudi Arabia on Saturday at 11:40 am.

URUMQI -- Three people were killed, one injured and seven more trapped after a coal mine collapsed Sunday afternoon in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, local authorities said Mon

TWO people were killed after a waste water treatment device exploded Sunday night in a chemical plant in east China's Shandong Province, local government said Monday.

Johannesburg - South African gold-mining companies, some of which are being sued for historical incidents of lung disease, formed a working group to pay compensation to affected workers and prevent