BBC News with Sue Montgomery.

Chinese state media say rescue teams are working to free 83 miners buried by a landslide near the Tibetan capital Lhasa. More than 1,000 emergency workers have been sent to the disaster site. Here’s Steve Jackson.

The landslide described by Chinese media was on a huge

scale

spreading mud and rock over an area of 4 square kilometers. The missing miners were working for a subsidiary of a state-owned gold mining company at high altitude in a mountainous region. Many are believed to have been asleep when the landslide struck. Rescue teams with sniffer dogs have been searching for signs of life and dozens of excavators are reported to be digging through the debris. Local officials described the landslide as a natural disaster, although intensive mining activity has in the past been known to trigger such events.

Greek media have published a list of loans written off by banks at the heart of the financial crisis in Cyprus. The Bank of Cyprus, Laiki and Hellenic Bank apparently forgave loans of millions of euros to companies, local authorities and politicians. Here’s Chloe Hadjimatheou.

A list has been published featuring names from all of Cyprus’s main parties apart from the Social Democrats and the Ecologists. The Bank of Cyprus is said to have written off a 2.8m-euro loan to a hotel with ties to the communist Progressive Party, which was in power until last month. And a