Nine people are in hospital under police supervision, a spokeswoman for the force said. Illegal miners, most of them foreign nationals, had occupied the shaft -- once part ... down the 2.6 ...

Sudanese volunteer rescuers said shelling in the greater ... said that an estimated 3.2 million children under the age of five are expected to face acute malnutrition this year in Sudan.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — (AP) — Rescuers sent a cage-like structure down into one of South ... too weak or ill to climb out. The mine is 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) deep with multiple ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa - South African rescuers were making final efforts ... miners up to the surface so they could be arrested as part of a crackdown on illegal mining, which the government ...

Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought ... where companies close down mines that are no longer ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — (AP) — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies ...