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Emergency workers use heavy machinery in the eastern Taiwan city of Hualien after a powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the area on Wednesday morning. At least nine people died in the quake -- all in Hualien county -- and more than 1,000 were injured across the country. The earthquake is the strongest to hit Taiwan in 25 years. IMAGES
Teams work amid the rubble after a church roof collapsed during a baptism in northeastern Mexico, killing 10 people including children and injuring 60 more, according to authorities. IMAGES
French gendarmes arrive to search a house in the eastern La Plaine village, hometown of Lina, a 15-year-old girl who went missing over a week ago. IMAGES
Tractors shift through rubble a week after a tsunami-sized flash flood devastated the Libyan coastal city of Derna. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES
Rescue and emergency personnel work at the scene of an attack on an counter-terrorism police station, in Swat, Pakistan, where at least seven people were killed and dozens injured. Several blasts ripped through the building in Kabal town in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the latest in a string of high-profile attacks targeting police in Pakistan. IMAGES
Local teams cleaning up the mud and debris after the deadly landslide that swept through the Italian island of Ischia. Italy's government declared a state of emergency after the disaster killed at least one person and left a dozen missing. IMAGES