WELLINGTON, New Zealand — An explosion ripped through New Zealand’s largest coal mine Friday while about 30 people were underground, officials said. Five workers, dazed and slightly injured, stumbled to the surface hours later, while more than...

One of two giant statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, right, that will rise again thanks to 12 archaeologists and hundreds of workers. The statues, 18m (59ft) high, which appear to watch over the route to the temples and tombs on the west bank at...