Rescuers sent back from earthquake
msn.com: British specialists have been refused visas to help with the Chinese rescue operation msn.com
msn.com     May 17, 2008            

Rescuers in earthquake-hit China continued to pull bodies from collapsed buildings as a specialist British team was refused permission to join the operation.Five days after the 7.9-magnitude quake, the official death toll reached almost 29,000, with 148,000 soldiers and police, involved in the... [read full story]                

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