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The Italian Coast Guard deploys an underwater unmanned vehicle to search for six passengers missing after a luxury yacht sank off Sicily as hope fades that they will be found alive. The 56-metre (185 feet) British-flagged "Bayesian" was anchored some 700 metres from Porticello with 10 crew and 12 passengers on board when it was struck by a waterspout -- akin to a mini-tornado -- before dawn on Monday. IMAGES
Neighbours help rescue teams comb through mud and debris for signs of 52 people missing after a landslide swept through Las Tejerias in Venezuela, killing at least 25. IMAGES
Images of rescue teams searching for a missing aircraft as Russia's aviation agency says they have found wreckage of the An-26 passenger plane with 28 people aboard that disappeared in the country's Far Eastern Kamchatka peninsula. IMAGES
Images show damage to houses caught in a landslide as helicopters and members of the Norwegian rescue services search for 10 people still missing. Rescue workers are still searching for survivors of a landslide that destroyed homes in a Norwegian village close to Oslo leaving 10 people unaccounted for, including two children, and 10 injured. Homes were buried under mud and some houses were left teetering on the edge of a crater caused by the slide, with several falling over the edge as the day went on. IMAGES
Gendarmes resume the search operation for Lina in a forest more than 130 km from the place where the teenager disappeared last September in Bas-Rhin. 90 gendarmes, accompanied by dogs trained to detect human remains, have been mobilised for the operation in the Saulx sector of Haute-Saone. IMAGES
The search for Lina, a 15-year-old girl who disappeared last September in the Bas-Rhin region, resumes at the Anould site (Vosges). IMAGES