Morning Chronicle - Boulevard (English)

1.2 million in Japan told to use less water to help sinkhole rescue

Japanese authorities have asked 1.2 million people to cut back on showers and laundry to prevent leaking sewage aggravating an operation to rescue a truck driver in a sinkhole.

Unfazed devotees shrug off stampede at India mega-festival

Swarming throngs of devotees bathed in rivers at the world's biggest religious gathering in India on Thursday, undeterred by a stampede a day earlier that killed at least 30 people.