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By Daniel Trotta, Reuters Emergency responders were attempting to repair the elevator to bring back the 11 tourists and one tour guide who were trapped Photo: KUSA One person was dead and 12 others were trapped 1000 feet (300 metres) underground following an elevator failure at a former Colorado gold mine that is now a tourist attraction, officials said. Another 11 people were rescued from the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine attraction in Cripple Creek, Colorado, Teller County Sheriff Jason Mikesell told reporters. Emergency responders were attempting to repair the elevator to bring back the 11 tourists and one tour guide who were trapped starting around midday (1800 GMT), Mikesell said. With one tour group below ground, the elevator experienced some type of mechanical failure with anothe...

A dog was rescued Thursday morning from the rubble of a home hit by a tornado spurred by Hurricane Milton at a 55 and older community with some help from a CBS News Miami crew. Photo: WFOR via CNN Newsource A dog was rescued Thursday morning (Friday NZT) from the rubble of a home hit by a tornado spurred by Hurricane Milton at a 55-and-older community with some help from a CBS News Miami crew. A resident found the shitzu, Lulu, at the Spanish Lakes Country Club Village retirement community near Fort Piece. CBS News Miami reporter Morgan Rynor was on the scene while appearing live on CBS Mornings when the pet was found. A neighbour who found the dog in the debris originally confused her with another animal in the retirement community, named Benji who actually was safe with its owners. "I...

Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert (left) stands with her great-grandson Dov Forman after being appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire following an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, on 31 January, 2023. Photo: AFP / Pool / Andrew Matthews King Charles has paid tribute to the "extraordinary resilience and courage" of Auschwitz survivor Lily Ebert, who has died at the age of 100. Ebert, born in Hungary, was taken in 1944 as a 20-year-old to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, where her mother, younger sister, and brother were sent to the gas chambers. Along with three of her other siblings, she managed to survive. They were freed in 1945 and reunited in Switzerland before eventually heading to Israel. She later settled in London in 1967, where in her later years she became well k...

By Rebecca Trigger, ABC News Photo: 123RF Warning: This story contains details some readers may find distressing, including details about an alleged sexual assault A UK rapper has been granted bail after being charged with raping and choking a Perth woman in his hotel room while on his Australian tour. The YouTuber and musician Andres Felipe Valencia Barrientos - also known as Yung Filly - is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in his Perth hotel room after a performance in the city's north last month. WA police arrested the 29-year-old in Brisbane before he was extradited to Perth. Police opposed his request to be released from custody at his first appearance in the Perth Magistrates Court on Thursday. But Magistrate Tanya Watt did not agree with prosecutors that Barrientos's risk...