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The mining giant Rio Tinto has apologised after losing a radioactive capsule in Western Australia. The tiny object disappeared along a 1,400-kilometre route between a mining site and Perth. It could put any person within a 5-metre radius at risk. Local authorities have launched investigations to understand how the capsule went missing. We report on how this is not the first time the mining giant has faced bad publicity in Australia. Also in this edition, Indian conglomerate Adani Group fights back against a report alleging it is involved in "brazen stock manipulation and accounting fraud".
Police in Western Australia confirm that a four-year-old girl was found "alive and well" on Wednesday, sparking elation more than two weeks after she disappeared from her family's tent during a camping trip. Deputy Commissioner Col Blanch says the girl Cleo Smith was found alone inside a locked house in the coastal town of Carnarvon, not far from where she was believed to have been abducted 18 days ago.
Australia says it is to intensify its search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which vanished in 2014 with 239 passengers and crew on board. Paul Chapman reports.
Emergency teams on Friday kept up their search for the thousands still posted as missing from the tsunami-sized flash flood that swept the Libyan port city of Derna, killing at least 4,000 people.
At least 16 people were killed Thursday after a landslide smashed into their village in India's Maharashtra state, as emergency workers continue to search for scores of missing people.
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