11.   Exhumation of bodies using mechanical diggers may begin later in the day, he added.

12.   Eleven people were hurt, two of them seriously, when a passenger train hit a mechanical digger and then derailed in Berlin, the German rail company said.

13.   Faaa airport was closed after the main terminal was wrecked by fire and a mechanical digger driven through a wall of the building by one demonstrator.

14.   The protestors moved in at dawn to block ground clearing work by settlers using tractors and mechanical diggers.

15.   The remains of the building were found when mechanical diggers began to tear into the earth outside Swindon, in south central England.

16.   Troops joined several other searches on the third night of the disaster, manning mechanical diggers or even scraping away the earth with their bare hands.

17.   They swung to work however on Sunday clearing away brush-wood from the area to allow a seven-ton mechanical digger to work.

18.   Troops used mechanical diggers and their bare hands to dig through rubble in several other searches going into the third night since the quake.

19.   Late Thursday mechanical diggers were still laboriously moving mud at the site, strewn with the litter of damaged caravans and cars.

20.   Mechanical diggers and containers are standing by, drenched by the rain which has been falling since work started on Sunday morning.