Rescuers say they could be just hours away from completing an escape tunnel for 33 miners trapped in a Chilean mine, but they will not be rescued until next week.
A powerful drill could reach 33 trapped miners Saturday, but rescuers face difficult engineering and medical decisions in the remaining days of the unprecedented effort.
Virginia Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, has accepted large contributions for her new political nonprofit group, raising questions for some who study judicial ethics.
AP - Sixty-six agonizing days after their gold and copper mine collapsed above them, 33 miners anxiously awaited a way out early Saturday as a drill carved into the last layers of rock above their underground purgatory.
AP - Gunmen armed with a rocket torched 29 NATO oil tankers in southwestern Pakistan before dawn Saturday, the latest attack on the supply line for international troops in Afghanistan since Pakistani authorities closed a key border crossing amid a dispute with the United States.
AP - The Hungarian town of Kolontar near that toxic red sludge reservoir that flooded the area and killed at least seven people was evacuated Saturday over fears of a new leak of the dangerous heavy metal waste, officials said.
A rescue shaft is less than 200 feet away from reaching the underground chamber where the Chilean miners have been entombed since August 5, and Chilean authorities say the men could be pulled to freedom within days.
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As he works around the clock trying to reach 33 trapped miners in Chile, an image flashes through Brandon Fisher's mind: the clothes he saw hanging in their lockers.
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