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Although Hurricane Gustav’s storm surge on Monday flooded
the entire first floor of the Hard Rock...
Artiste Jerry Lewis helped raise a record $65 million for
the Muscular Dystrophy Association in...
The forty-third edition of The Jerry Lewis Muscular
Dystrophy Telethon, which is known to be a...
When you can’t make a movie that is worth watching, you
choose to mock the ones who can…That is...
Three movies due for theatrical release today – “Babylon
A.D.,” a PG-13 rated sci-fi film starring...
A major, disastrous earthquake is quite likely to occur
around New York City,
a recent study...
Former supermodel Christie Brinkley testified Monday in a
Long Island courtroom that she is a...
It
is always great news when you hear that the fight against cancer brings more
people together,...
Tuesday was Neil Diamond night on American Idol, but it was
Paula Abdul who got all the fame. And...
Miley Cyrus has signed an impressive seven-figure book-deal with Disney to share with the world the...
While to most people Charlton Heston is known for his larger-than-life roles as some of history's...
With Greece facing a nationwide state of emergency after the deadly fires that have killed 51...
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St Paul, Minnesota/Washington - Until Friday, few had ever heard of Sarah Palin, the Republican...
Tokyo - More than 590,000 people Monday participated in earthquake drills across Japan on a...
Washington - Hurricane Gustav churned toward an evacuated US Gulf Coast early Monday, headed for...
Washington - Hurricane Gustav Sunday played havoc with Republican Party plans to nominate their...
Washington - As Hurricane Gustav took aim Sunday at New Orleans, reports said that US President...
Last night, mayor Ray Nagin demanded a quick
evacuation of New Orleans, meant to protect the...
Havana/Washington - Gustav strengthened to a dangerous category 4 hurricane late Saturday, as it...
Port-au-Prince/Kingston/Washington - Tropical Storm Gustav reached hurricane strength Friday, with...
Louisiana called a state of emergency and put the National Guard on standby, preparing for a...
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) reported that
the Arctic sea ice extent presently...
New Delhi - Floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains have affected nearly 1.5...
Madrid - Relatives of the 153 people killed in the Madrid air disaster this week expressed anger...
Rescue workers succeeded to recover the last to bodies from
the Spanair plane crash site at...
Madrid - At the start of what became a journey into catastrophe was a take-off like any other. The...
The process of identifying the victims of Madrid plain crash will be long according to
a Red Cross...
Washington - Tropical Storm Fay struck the Florida Keys Monday afternoon and was expected to take a...
Four deaths have already been blamed on the floods Tropical Storm Fay has caused. They have been...
Flooding and landslides generated by tropical storm Kammuri have killed at least 100 people and...
China launched the 29th summer Olympics Friday with a glittering opening ceremony combining 5,000...
A magnitude-6.6 undersea earthquake shook parts of eastern Indonesia Thursday, damaging more than...
The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is the second largest to
date at 8,000 square miles. The area...
Hurricane Dolly made its way into South Texas and northern Mexico on Wednesday, flooding the Rio...
A powerful earthquake struck Japan on early Thursday morning injuring as much as 102 people and...
Tropical Storm Dolly could strengthen to a hurricane and it is very probable that it will make...
Rescue teams are searching for nearly 800 people who went missing in the Philippines archipelago...
Heavy rains and powerful storms hit the state of Iowa paralyzing large sections in the east. Iowa...
It seems that the Midwest
is more and more affected by storms which are causing severe floods....
The fire from eastern North
Carolina, which started Sunday in a wildlife refuge,
was still...
U.S. President George W. Bush misled the public opinion about the war in Iraq, said the former...
An earthquake that measured 5.6 degrees on the Richter scale shook Bogotá, Colombia’s capital,...
Authorities assessed the damage made by the massive tornado that struck the state of Colorado. The...
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown accused Myanmar for not managing effectively
the distribution of...
A powerful aftershock struck China near the epicenter of the 7.9 earthquake that hit Asia’s biggest...
After Cyclone Nargis wrecked a vast region of Myanmar nearly two weeks ago, the unfortunate south...
As the military junta which currently rules Myanmar raised the Cyclone Nargis death toll to 28,458...
Despite the huge devastation caused by Cyclone Nargys, Myanmar held a referendum on Saturday to...
The last small group of civilians and military personnel which was near an erupting volcano in...
In the aftermath of the devastating cyclone Nargis which wreaked havoc in Myanmar, there are many...
People in Yangon, Myanmar faced today a horrible test as the powerful Tropical Cyclone Nargis...
Two state judges have reportedly reached a deal on Friday that would compensate the victims of the...
A fire that raged through a mattress factory killed 55 people and injured as many as 24 others in...
President George W. Bush is joining the conservative leaders
of Canada and Mexico, in his final...
China experienced a new wave of protests yesterday, this
time conducted by a group of Buddhist...
Forecasters predicted floods for various parts of Arkansas’s
prairie, as the state’s largest...
Heavy rain has created flooding across the US Midwest, as rivers came out of their banks in...
The string of heavy rains and the floods caused by it have
killed at least 13 people and made...
Almost 200 vehicles crashed into
each other Tuesday on a highway in the United
Arab Emirates...
Chinese authorities announced Sunday that they foiled two
terrorist attacks, one of which was...
Almost three people lost their lives and 25 others were
injured in the powerful earthquake which...
Indonesia's western province of Aceh was struck by a powerful earth quake. The United States...
A retired New York Police Department sergeant was fatally
shot in a confrontation with his wife...
At least 53 people were killed and 85 others were injured
when two bombs were detonated on Friday...
A Paris
court found oil giant Total guilty of negligence over the 1999 sinking of the
tanker...
More than 100 people have been killed or are reported missing after landslides buried dozens of...
A 12-story building collapsed Monday in Egypt’s Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, killing at...
A large earthquake struck off the Andreanof Islands in the
Aleutian Islands in southern...
An express train crowded with holiday travelers derailed early
Wednesday in southern...
According to the latest reports, tropical storm Olga left at
least 11 people dead in the Dominican...
On Saturday South Korean workers armed with oil skimmers and
containment fences struggled to clean...
Powerful tropical cyclone Daman hit
the small islands on Fiji
on Friday, with wind gusts up to...
An oil tanker collided with a vessel that was carrying a
crane off the west coast of South
...
The 80th birthday of the Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej was
celebrated on Wednesday in...
On Friday typhoon Mitag increased as it moved towards the Philippines.
It set off evacuations,...
In Bangladesh
cyclone Sidr’s death toll reached 2,300 on Sunday and according to officials...
Official rescuers in Bangladesh counted another 300 bodies
of people killed in Friday's cyclone...
On Thursday, as President Michelle Bachelet was visiting
residents in Tocopilla reassuring them...
On Thursday Indian and Bangladeshi authorities warned
thousands of people to evacuate as Tropical...
On Tuesday over 700 people worked to find the 20 sailors
that are still missing after the Sunday...
The bodies of three sailors were recovered on Monday by the
rescuers after the Russian freighter...
A powerful storm in the region between the Black Sea and the Azov Sea led to the breaking of a...
The Mexican civil defense authorities in the south-eastern
Mexican state of Tabasco announced...
In the firestorm that occurred Thursday the flames drew near thousands of homes in Southern...
US President George W Bush made his promised tour in the state of California and particularly to...
The earthquake that struck Indonesia Thursday morning had a magnitude
of 7.1 on the Richter scale...
Around a million people have already been displaced by the disastrous fires in Southern California,...
Typhoon Krosa weakened to a tropical storm but still drenched China's southeast coast Sunday after...
After thousands of Greeks criticized the government’s slow response to the wildfires ravaging the...
A group connected with al-Qaeda announced it is responsible for the assassination of a prominent...
Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, a prominent Sunni tribal leader and one of the key US allies in Iraq was...
Almost two months after an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease ravaged the farming industry in...
Indonesia’s islands of Sumatra and Java were seriously jolted Wednesday by an earthquake measuring...
Hurricane Felix is gone, but his devastating force left behind a trail of suffering and dismay in...
Security forces in Denmark arrested eight people accused of having links with a terrorist cell and...
Hundreds of firefighters, soldiers and volunteers continue their titanic battle with the raging...
North Korea will receive an aid of 7.5 million dollars from its neighbour South Korea after floods...
Peru
was hit late Wednesday by a magnitude-7.9 earthquake and dozens of aftershocks.
According to...
North Korea is seriously affected by floods after rain fell incessantly for almost a week, hundreds...
The deluges that struck hard South Asia during this year’s monsoon season caused nearly 1,300...
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