1.   A coal miner has been rescued after three weeks trapped in a flooded mine in central China with just dirty water to drink, a newspaper reported Friday.

2.   Eight injured miners were rescued immediately and five bodies were recovered.

3.   Eleven other miners were rescued, two of them injured, the Chinese-language Ming Pao Daily reported.

4.   Four miners were rescued and five were confirmed dead Friday following a cave-in earlier in the week at a coal mine in Ruda Slaska, in southern Poland.

5.   Thirteen miners were rescued after the explosion Sunday at the mine in Xuzhou, a city in the eastern province of Jiangsu.

6.   Twenty-five miners had been rescued from the Chengzihe mine in Heilongjiang province and eight of them were receiving emergency treatment in hospital, Xinhua said.

7.   Thirteen miners were rescued immediately but it took two hours to reach the other five, one of whom died immediately and another in hospital.

8.   Two injured miners were rescued and are expected to recover fomr their injuries, the report said.

9.   Ninety-six other miners have been rescued, and six of them were airlifted to the central city of Cebu with severe burns.