Officials and rescue personnel gather around a man who became stuck in a tree Tuesday Oct. 25 in Laguna Hills, Calif. Orange County deputies found the man stuck up to his chest inside a narrow hole in the trunk, which extended about four or five feet underground.

Bolivian miner Carlos Mamani's wife, Veronica Quispe, shows a picture of her husband who is still trapped with other 32 workers in a mine next to Copiapo, Chile, on October 3, 2010.

Barely visible in the thick sludge of crude oil, a worker pulls a struggling colleague to safety in the Chinese port of Dalian, Liaoning province. A massive explosion at a refinery as a tanker was off-loading its cargo Friday night resulted in a slick covering 71 square miles of the Yellow Sea.
Oil imports were still restricted at Dalian, which is home to a 19 million barrel strategic petroleum reserve, as the clean-up operation continued Tuesday.
The authorities have used some 23 tonnes of oil-eating bacteria and called in a total of 800 fishing boats to help some 24 specialist vessels. Dispersant chemicals and absorbent materials are also being deployed. The photo was released Tuesday by environmental group Greenpeace.

The workers were caught in just some of the 1,500 tons of crude which spilled into the sea following an attempt to fix an underwater pump. Chinese officials said a third of the oil had been collected and they expect to resume oil imports by the end of the week.

The two workers, covered head-to-toe in oil, are helped to the shore from a boat by rescuers. No-one was injured in the explosion at the refinery, although the subsequent fire raged for 15 hours. Dalian's Xingang oil port is one of China's four state storage bases currently in operation. It is also a transfer spot for two major refineries, Dalian Petrochemical Corp and WEPEC, both operated by PetroChina with a combined processing capacity of 600,000 barrels per day.

One of the oiled workers tries to help his colleague, who appears to have collapsed following his ordeal in the slick. Several miles of floating booms have been deployed in the area in an effort to contain the oil. Already, questions are being asked about the cost and who is to blame.
"It's not going to be a major cost in the big scheme of things. It's going to be in the tens of millions of dollars, not tens of billions of dollars," said David Johnson at RBS, who estimated the cost at $50 million. "The question is, who owns the oil in the tanker and whether the oil is insured. But some of them will have to pay the clean-up costs. The question is, who's going to be liable? It's like the BP story -- whose fault is it?"