Anxious Chinese families await news of missing coal miners

CHINA — A man nervously smoked a cigarette as he sat by a checkpoint, waiting for news of his older brother caught up in China's worst mining disaster in nearly two decades. His 47-year-old sibling, a father of three, was working in the Liushenyu shaft in northern China's Shanxi province on Friday when a catastrophic gas explosion ripped through the mine, killing at least 82 people. A total of 247 workers were underground at the time, according to state media. Emergency rescuers were racin