Cave divers are squeezing through narrow, flooded corridors in a delicate operation to reach seven villagers trapped underground in a cave in Laos for nearly a week.

The family of a construction worker killed in the collapse of a nine-story building in the city of Angeles, north of Manila, gathered outside a funeral home on Tuesday (May 26), mourning a man his daughter described as a devoted father who gave everything he had for his family.

Emergency officials said late on Monday they had ended a two-day rescue operation for at least 12 people believed buried in the debris of a collapsed building in the northern Philippines.

Two of the men were dead, while emergency personnel struggled in the early morning hours to revive one in an ambulance near the pile of concrete slabs, twisted iron bars and aluminum scaffoldings that...