BEICHUAN, China (AP) — Piles of broken concrete rise seven stories high, and a few buildings stand askew, knocked at odd angles. People cry out the names of

Four days after earth-shattering tremors left huge swathes of southwest China in ruins, the region suffered renewed chaos today after a powerful aftershock

By VOA News China's state-run news agency says a strong aftershock has struck near the epicenter of Monday's earthquake, as authorities have increased the

A couple builds a shelter on the ruins of their house in Luoshui in China's Sichuan province on Thursday. (Greg Baker/Associated Press) Rescuers freed a

BEIJING, China (CNN) -- President Hu Jintao arrived in southwestern China on Friday to observe the country's devastated earthquake zone, state-run media

A woman rushes forward to check the identity of a dead teenager removed from the rubble at a secondary school in Sichuan Province.

By Michael Bristow There were collapsed buildings all along the road to Beichuan, the mountainous district close to the epicentre of the biggest earthquake

For nearly two days Li Ke lay trapped in the ruins of Wudu School. Yesterday doctors brought him a drip. Today army rescuers lifted the last chunk of

MIANYANG, China (AP) — Soldiers hiking over landslide-blocked roads reached the epicenter of China's devastating earthquake Tuesday, pulling bodies and a

Rescuers try to move the debris weighing a trapped middle school student Yang Hong in quake-striken Beichuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province,

By Zheng Chu Foreword: EO reporter Zheng Chu arrived in Beichuan, one of the worst-hit areas by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake on May 12, a day after the

The official death toll from China's earthquake is now more than 20000 but it is feared it could rise beyond 50000. As survivors of the earthquake come out

By Yang Jian 2008-5-16 PRESIDENT Hu Jintao told rescuers that saving lives was still the top priority as soldiers, firefighters and medical personnel

By Jane Macartney in China THE death toll in China's deadliest tremor in 32 years could soar to 50000, state media reported yesterday as time began to run

By M&C News May 15, 2008, 16:22 GMT A woman crouches beside her dead child near by many bodies at Beichuan middle school in Beichuan country of Mianyang

China will deploy 30000 extra troops and 101 more choppers to help with the rescue operation after a devastating quake hit the country.

China (MNN) ― The death toll from China's massive quake has soared beyond 12000, and that's expected to go up as more missing people are found in the rubble