This is the dramatic moment a man was pulled alive from the rubble of an apartment building, hours after a massive explosion tore through the city of Beirut. People could be heard cheering ‘Issam is alive!’ as the wounded man was placed on a stretcher and taken to hospital, one of more than 4,000 injured … Read more
Survivors of a massive explosion that devastated the Lebanese capital of Beirut last night were picking through the remains of their city for victims today as the death toll topped 100 and was expected to continue rising, with more than 4,000 wounded. The city, once known as the Paris of the Middle East, resembled a … Read more
Old tyres and building rubble could be used to make sustainable roads while recycling waste that would otherwise end up in landfill, researchers have claimed. Developed by researchers from Australia, the new road-covering material is the first to combine rubble and rubber in a mix optimised to meet road safety standards. The recycled blend, designed … Read more
An 85-year-old woman who died when a 65ft crane collapsed on to her home in east London is still buried beneath the rubble. Specialist firefighters are working to recover the body of June Harvey from her house in Bow after it was crushed by the rig. The rig, which had been working on a new … Read more
World’s oldest cat dies AGED 31 after owner, 52, who was given him as a kitten for her 20th birthday pays tribute Rubble died just before turning 32- almost 150 in human years His owner Michele Heritage, 52, admits she pampered him like a child Rubble beat the record of 30- year old Scooter a Siamese … Read more
Mars’s moon Phobos was once a ring of rubble around the Red Planet that clumped together to form a solid ball – and it may disintegrate again in about 100 million years Astronomers from the SETI Institute looked at the orbit of the two Martian moons They wanted to confirm a 2017 theory that Phobos … Read more
Travellers have built an illegal permanent camp using 1,000 tonnes of rubble and 12 dumper trucks in just three days after moving onto a field in the middle of the night, despite being denied planning permission. Truckers arrived on the land close to the Swan With Two Necks pub at Blackbrook, in Staffordshire, at 3am last … Read more
Forty seven people have been rescued from the remains of a hotel in China being used to quarantine coronavirus victims after it collapsed. The five-storey Xinjai hotel in Quanzhou came down on Saturday, trapping about 70 people, state media said. Rescue workers toiled through the night to pull survivors out, but were still looking for another … Read more