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Emergency services rescue three people, including one child, from the rubble of a hotel that collapsed in Kröv, a town some 110 kilometres (68 miles) west of Frankfurt, leaving one person dead. IMAGES
Around 20 bodies have been found at a South Korean lithium battery factory after a massive blaze, the Yonhap news agency says, with firefighters still searching the building. According to one firefighter, over 100 people were working in the factory when workers heard a series of explosions from the second floor, where lithium-ion batteries are inspected and packaged. IMAGES
The Icelandic Prime Minister, Katrín Jakobsdóttir, announces that the authorises have bought "70 flats that people can move into before Christmas which is the people who are in most dire need of housing" following the evacuation of the town of Grindavik because of a volcanic eruption. SOUNDBITE
Pushkar Singh Dhami, the chief minister of the Indian state of Uttarakhand, greets workers after they were rescued from a collapsed tunnel where they had been trapped for 17 days. IMAGES
Indian rescuers dig through the final metres of debris separating them from 41 workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for nearly two weeks. IMAGES
Residents of the southern city of Sderot board buses to evacuate to safer areas in Israel amid ongoing war against Hamas. Situated on the front lines near the Gaza border, Sderot was overrun by Hamas militants in their surprise attack on October 7 and is used to being targeted by rockets fired from the Gaza Strip. IMAGES