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Water spills over a levee east of downtown Aug. 30, 2005, in New Orleans. It was estimated that 80 percent of New Orleans was under floodwaters as levees begin to break and leak around Lake Ponchartrain, inundating vulnerable low-lying areas of the city. Read more
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Let me start with a disclaimer: I am an unabashed supporter of a free Tibet. One of the best assignments I covered was the protest against the Beijing Olympics torch in San Francisco in 2008. And the 14th Dalai Lama, for all of China’s efforts to paint him as a devil, is a good and [...]
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I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid [...]
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4:22pm UK, Monday August 29, 2011 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is still a threat, the chairman of Libya’s transitional council has warned – as he called for ongoing support from Nato. There is a reward on offer for anyone who captures Colonel Muammar Gaddafi The former [...]
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© WENN / WENN.COM Joe Swash has described his return to EastEnders as “interesting”. The actor, who was axed as Mickey Miller in 2008 after five years on the show, has agreed to film two special episodes for the soap to commemorate on-screen brother Darren’s wedding to Jodie Gold. Swash told PA: “I went back [...]
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A staff member slashed children with a knife at a daycare center for migrant workers in eastern China on Monday, wounding eight children, one seriously. Read more
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Barack Obama wasn’t around the see the show, but from the impassioned bumpersticks, signs, and political merchandise on hand Saturday at the Napa Valley Expo, the Democratic… Read more
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A division of Johnson & Johnson is recalling 43 over-the-counter medicines made for infants and children — including liquid versions of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl — after federal regulators identified what they called deficiencies at the company’s manufacturing facility. Read more
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VENEZUELA Chávez opponents jailed in crackdown Two foes of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez who had publicly criticized the socialist government in recent days found themselves in jail this week as part of a crackdown on opposition figures that has prompted alarm about the state of democracy in the oil-rich Latin American country. On Monday, former [...]
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan rebel forces were converging on Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown of Sirte on Monday, hoping to deliver the coup de grace of their revolution but uncertain if the fallen strongman was holed up there. Read more
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hurricane Irene swept through Manhattan on Sunday but reserved the worst of its fury for towns and suburbs up and down the northeast region where driving rain and flood tides inundated homes and cut power to millions. Read more
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Hundreds of thousands of evacuated New Yorkers are being allowed back home after a weakening Tropical Storm Irene churned over the US financial capital without causing extensive damage. Read more
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JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (Reuters) – The heads of the U.S. Federal Reserve, IMF and OECD stepped up pressure on political leaders on both sides of the Atlantic to shake off their inertia and tackle urgent economic problems. Read more
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan forces closed in on Muammar Gaddafi’s home town Sunday, vowing to seize it by force if negotiations failed, and their leaders ruled out any talks with the deposed ruler. Read more
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The Irish traveller camp that featured in the hit TV series My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding is at the centre of a major confrontation between the traveller community and the British Conservative government. Read more
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It looks to me pretty much like a football crowd armed with AK-47s and bazookas, with the added ingredient of Islamic militancy. Why am I expected to like it? Read more
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Rebel fighters pushed increasingly leaderless regime gunmen to the outskirts of Tripoli yesterday, as severe shortages of fuel, water and electricity paralysed the battle-scarred capital and the stench of growing piles garbage filled the air. Read more
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was the target of a failed assassination plot hatched by Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami in 2000. United States Defense Department Read more
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After months of fighting to gain ground to seemingly lose ground again, the rebels may finally be making serious headway against Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, who just this past week was embroiled in rumors that he was going to flee to Tunisia (didn’t they just get rid of a dictator?) only to vow in a [...]
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Starting at the 52:28 minute mark in the current “Radiolab,” New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell explains why he roots for the favorite, not the underdog: “I’m distressed by the injustice of the person who should win not winning…it is the only humane position….I have a deep distrust and unhappiness with luck.So I do [...]