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UNITED NATIONS — Grappling with what appears to be the organization’s greatest loss of life in a single incident, United Nations officials said Thursday that 36 U.N. staffers, police and peacekeepers have been confirmed dead and up to 160 remain missing in the rubble of the Haiti earthquake — but eight have been rescued alive [...]
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn’t take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends in his populist [...]
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In one more month, Mandy and Matt Poulter could have flown their daughter Maya out of Haiti. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Haitian leaders estimated Wednesday that tens of thousands of people have died in the aftermath of the earthquake that throttled this impoverished Caribbean nation, as the United States and other countries mobilized a vast rescue and relief effort to assist the legion of desperate survivors. Read more
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BEIJING — Google’s threat to shut down its Chinese Web site and offices over cyberattacks and censorship puts the government here in the awkward position of having to choose between relaxing restrictions and raising the ire of the roughly 80 million Chinese people who use the search engine. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Troops and planeloads of food and medicine trickled in to Haiti on Thursday to aid a traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Troops and planeloads of food and medicine trickled in to Haiti on Thursday to aid a traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people. Read more
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The US is sending up to 3,500 soldiers and 2,200 marines to Haiti to help rescue efforts in the wake of the devastating earthquake. Read more
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Play Video CNBC  – Captil Hill Headlines Play Video Video:BofA CEO Moynihan testifies on Capitol Hill WCNC Charlotte Play Video Video:Bank CEOs: Sorry for risky behavior, bad decisions AP Related Quotes Symbol Price Change JPM 44.25 0.00 MTLQQ 0.00 0.00 ^GSPC 1,145.68 0.00 AFP/File – US President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House [...]
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Play Video AP  – Twitter, Facebook play big role in helping Haiti Slideshow:Massive earthquake hits Haiti Play Video Video:U.S. military relief heading to Haiti Reuters Play Video Video:Broadway Kids Care Donate Coats ABC News AP – Gunsly Milsoit, left, comforts his brother-in-law Leo Pierre after Leo’s wife and Gunsly’s sister, Milsoit … By MIKE MELIA, Associated Press Writer Mike [...]
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HIPPOPOTAMUSES mate in water, are born in water and spend most of the day wallowing in muddy pools — but there comes a time in every hippo’s life when she simply wants to have dry feet. Read more
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Northeast Braces for Major Winter Storm Woods’ Wife Buys Island Home in Sweden Ancient City Uncovered in Amazon Jungle Teen Fighting to Sail Around the World Disappears First Case of Rare TB Strain Found in US A Retirement Paradise Gets a Little More Hellish Fireworks Set Off Aboard Northwest Flight 2009′s Weirdest News Stories Cruise [...]
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A High Court judge ruled Alan Johnson may have acted unlawfully by failing to halt the surrender of the Asperger’s sufferer to U.S. authorities. Read more
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The news stories that shaped the first decade of the new millennium, from terrorism to natural and humanitarian disasters. (Note: These are not ranked in order of importance.) Read more
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
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Here’s a frame of reference to keep in mind: A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes off the coast of Northern California on Saturday, causing $21.9 million in damage to the city of Eureka but — thanks to high building standards and retrofitting — no deaths or major injuries. Then consider the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, which occurred [...]
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I realize that many seemingly “simple” jobs are a lot more difficult and draining than they appear, but I can’t figure out what it was about being a judge on “American Idol” that was so time consuming that snarktastic judge Simon Cowell felt he couldn’t do it while still pursuing other interests. Read more
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Britain has sent a team from the Department for International Development (DFID) to assess Haiti’s humanitarian needs. A 64-man team of British search and rescue officers, along with ten tonnes of equipment and sniffer dogs, left Gatwick Airport to head to Haiti. Read more
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Rex Features Doctor Who actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw has signed to co-star in J.J. Abrams pilot Undercovers. Mbatha-Raw will join the previously cast Boris Kodjoe in the NBC project, according to The Hollywood Reporter. She will play the female lead. Undercovers was co-written by Abrams and Josh Reims. The pilot centres on a married couple who [...]
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On Wednesday, Christian televangelist Pat Robertson of the “700 Club,” while stating his Christian Broadcasting Network will be there “to help the people,” blamed the disaster on the victims. He said that the earthquake was a result of a “pact with the devil” that the Haitians made long ago. Read more