In the early hours of 1 November 1986, the Rhine was still one of Europe’s great working rivers. It flowed…
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Piper Alpha stood in the North Sea, around 120 miles north-east of Aberdeen, a vast steel structure rising above cold,…
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Before it became synonymous with catastrophe, Lac-Mégantic was a small, close-knit town in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada, with…
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In the suburb of Savar, around 24 kilometres north-west of central Dhaka, stood Rana Plaza, an eight-storey concrete structure that…
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