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Funchu Tamang (101) sits on a bed in a hospital in Nuwakot district on Sunday around 80 kilometres northwest of Kathmandu where he was taken after being rescued from his collapsed home a day earlier. Photograph: AFP/ etty Images
Nepal: Man (101) rescued seven days after earthquake

A 101-year-old man has been pulled alive from the rubble of his house in Nepal seven days after an earthquake hit the country, police said on Sunday.F(...)

A man watches the burning pyres of victims of the Nepalese earthquake, during a cremation in Kathmandu yesterday. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
Swathes of Kathmandu still to be cleared after earthquake

As the death toll in the Nepalese earthquake passed 6,200 yesterday, rescue work was still continuing in downtown Kathmandu, nearly one week after the(...)

Earthquake survivor Krishna Kumari Khadka (24), is rescued by French, Israeli and Norwegian rescue teams from a collapsed building five days after the earthquake in Kathmandu, Nepal. Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
Nepal earthquake: woman and teen rescued after five days

Hundreds of people cheered as rescuers toiling amid rubble left by Nepal’s earthquake pulled a boy and a woman to safety on Thursday after they had be(...)

Nepalese victims of Saturday’s earthquake lie inside an Indian air force helicopter as they are evacuated from Trishuli Bazar to Kathmandu airport in Nepal. Photograph: AP
Nepal earthquake death toll passes 4,000

Nepalese officials scrambled on Monday to get aid from the main airport to people left homeless and hungry by a devastating earthquake two days earlie(...)