Russia says it believes debris from a spacecraft that failed in its mission to Mars has crashed into the Pacific Ocean. The probe, Phobos-Grunt, is one of the heaviest and most toxic ever to fall back down to earth although the Russian space agency says most of it will have burnt up on re-entry. The spacecraft was launched last November in an ambitious bid to
scoop up
rocky fragments from a Martian moon and bring them back for study. But it became
stranded
in Earth's orbit after the launch went wrong.
BBC News
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Divers searching a submerged cruise ship in Italy say they will work through the night to try to find more survivors. Fifteen people are still unaccounted for while five are known to have died. Earlier, two more bodies were found. Filippo Marini is a spokesman for the Italian coast guard.
参与意大利沉没游轮搜救工作的潜水者说,将不分昼夜坚持工作,争取找到更多幸存者。至今仍有15人下落不明,另外5人已确认死亡。早些时候还发现了另外两具尸体,Filippo Marini是意大利海岸巡逻队发言人。
"The bodies of two elderly people have been found. They'll be identified as soon as possible. The correct procedures will be observed, and then we will proceed with identification. It's a sad piece of news to give. Our divers have found themselves with this very sad situation. The bodies are being brought onto the mainland. They're two elderly people found on the third floor in a meeting area section of the ship."