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Death toll from factory collapse in Bangladesh passes 1,000 as recovery operation continues. 

Rescuers found more bodies in the concrete debris of a collapsed garment factory building Thursday and authorities say it may take another five days to clear the rubble. In addition to the 433 confirmed dead, police report that 149 people are still missing in what has become the worst disaster for Bangladesh’s $20 billion-a-year garment industry.

As Bangladesh reels from the deaths of hundreds of garment workers in a building collapse, the refusal of global retailers to pay for strict nationwide factory inspections is bringing renewed scrutiny to an industry that has profited from a country notorious for its hazardous workplaces and subsistence-level wages.

Survivors from a building that collapsed in Bangladesh killing at least 187 mainly women workers described hearing a deafening crack before the complex housing factories supplying Western clothes retailers crashed down in a matter of seconds.

An eight-story building housing several garment factories collapsed near Bangladesh's capital Wednesday morning, killing at least 32 people and trapping many more in the rubble, officials said....

Two Chicago firefighters were killed and 14 others injured battling a blaze when the roof of an abandoned building collapsed, an official says.

A glass canopy fell off of a high-rise condominium building and onto a parking garage two stories below on Friday morning and partially flattened the structure, authorities said.

Officials are trying to assess the damage and whether anyone was hurt in the collapse, Hackensack Fire Capt. Thomas Salsedo said. Emergency officials are looking into reports that two people may be missing.

Two miners were missing Thursday and rescuers were unable to contact them after a roof collapsed in a large underground coal mine in western Kentucky, company and union officials said.

A second worker died Friday after the roof of a stage being built for a Madonna concert collapsed in the French port city of Marseille, officials said.

One person was killed Thursday when a stage being built for a Madonna concert collapsed in Marseille, a fire department spokesman in the southern French city said.