The former Chairman and CEO of the Massey Energy Company was convicted Thursday of a federal charge of conspiring to violate mine safety standards, in the case of the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in 2010, in which 29 miners were killed in a coal dust explosion.

More bad news in New Zealand: Gas levels at the coal mine where 29 are trapped remain too toxic for rescuers.

Thirty-six coal miners are missing following an explosion in a New Zealand mine.