Rescue teams are racing to reach thousands of people trapped under collapsed buildings after an earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Officials say between 100 and 200 have been confirmed killed, but Siti Fadillah Supari, the Indonesian health minister, said on Thursday that given the widespread damage the number of victims “could be more [...]
As the People’s Republic of China celebrates its 60th founding anniversary, patterns of the number “60″, and the national flag — the five-star red flag — can be seen everywhere throughout the country, even on children’s heads. In a barbershop in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Huang Xianlong, 5, smiled at his new hair [...]
Israel is set to release 20 Palestinian women in its prisons in exchange for information on kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, local daily newspaper “Ha’aretz” reported on Wednesday. The move marks a dramatic development concerning the fate of Shalit, who was taken away three years ago by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip and is [...]
A total of 645 children went missing in Turkey during the first five months of this year, local daily newspaper “Today’s Zaman” reported Wednesday. The report said the figure is very high when compared with 528 missing children during the whole year of 2008, and 210 in 2007. The number of missing children this year is [...]
The Canadian province of Ontario said on Tuesday it has filed a lawsuit seeking $45.9 billion in damages from tobacco companies for healthcare costs incurred by taxpayers since 1955. In doing so, Ontario became the third of Canada’s 10 provinces to sue the country’s tobacco manufacturers, all of which are units of foreign tobacco makers, [...]
A massive 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck 120 miles southwest of American Samoa in the Pacific Ocean, leading to a tsunami warning being issued for a number of surrounding islands. The quake hit at a depth of 20.5 miles according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Shortly after the tremor a tsunami warning was issued for New Zealand [...]
Here’s Barack and Michelle Obama with Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his family. The U.S. State Department uploaded it to Flickr; however, no one in Spain has ever seen Zapatero’s Goth daughters before since their photos are prohibited from broadcast or publication. According to Zapatero, Spanish law allows him to prevent the [...]
At least 58 people are reported to have been killed after security forces opened fire on opposition protesters in Guinea, a human rights group has said. The unrest on Monday occurred near a stadium in Conakry, the capital, where demonstrators had massed to protest against the expected decision of Moussa Dadis Camara, the country’s military leader, to stand in forthcoming elections. [...]
Jordanian and Palestinian officials have condemned the Israeli security forces for storming Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque on Sunday during clashes that left many Palestinian worshippers wounded. Deploring the Israeli action, the officials said it amounted to a “violation of the mosque’s sanctity”. Trouble had broken out after a group of about 150 Israelis turned up and entered the mosque compound, reportedly [...]
Honduran soldiers have raided a radio station aligned with Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president, and shut down its operations. David Romero, the director of Radio Globo de Tegucigalpa, said on Monday: ”Soldiers assaulted the radio this morning, took over the station and took it off the air.” He said that all the staff had managed to [...]
Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, is to seek a coalition deal with the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) within a month, after her ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won Sunday’s general election. The result should allow the CDU to end their awkward four-year-old partnership with the left-wing Social Democrats (SPD) and establish a new government with the FDP. The two [...]
Young British wildlife photographer, under 18 category winner: Red squirrel, Kielder forest, Northumberland, by Will Nicholls. Grand Prize Winner: Ross Hoddinott, for his image entitled: “Damselfly silhouette.” Sue Herdman, Judge and Editor of the National Trust Magazine, said, “We were looking for a winning image that stood out as the most memorable and striking. Almost [...]
The United Nations Security Council today stressed the need to ensure the security of the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, where ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya has taken shelter since his return to the country earlier this week. This came after Brazil’s Foreign Minister, Celso Amorim, said that he was gravely concerned that the same people [...]
Barely a year after the recession-hit Indian airline industry sought one billion U.S. dollars from thecountry’s government, some of the leading carriers are still in a state of disarray as their constant efforts to ride out the global meltdown are somewhat being affected by what is very unusual in India — pilots’ strike. First pilots [...]
South Korean Lee Jung-ho (L) cries as he meets his North Korean elder brother, who was originally from the South and was a war prisoner from South Korea during the Korean War, at the DPRK resort of Mount Kumgang September 26, 2009. Hundreds of families from the two Koreas on Saturday met at the DPRK’s [...]
Roman Polanski, the award-winning film director, has been arrested in Switzerland on a US arrest warrant, dating from 1978, for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl. The Swiss justice ministry on Sunday confirmed the arrest of the film-maker, whose life has on occasion resembled the often violent world of his work. A Swiss justice ministry spokesman [...]
Vitali Klitschko retained his WBC heavyweight title with a 10th round technical knockout over previously undefeated challenger Cristobal Arreola in Los Angeles. Arreola, who was outclassed by the taller and more mobile Ukrainian, did not answer the bell at the start of the 11th round. The victory was Klitschko’s third since returning to the ring in 2008 [...]
G20 members are under pressure to back reform of the International Monetary Fund in order to give emerging economies more clout. Speaking at a two-day summit in Pittsburgh, USA, of the world’s major developed and developing countries, Xie Duo, director-general of the People’s Bank of China, said he expected a major political decision on Friday. “We think the [...]
Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has reversed his decision to deploy missiles in the Baltic region of Kaliningrad in response to the US scrapping missile shield plans in Europe. “When I first mentioned this idea, I said we would site Iskander missiles in response to the decision to implement the missile shield,” Medvedev told reporters on Friday after [...]
Pakistan’s army and its intelligence service, the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), have long been accused of supporting armed groups fighting in Afghanistan. But the latest warning has come from no less than the US forces’ commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal. In a report submitted to the Obama administration recently, he says “Afghanistan’s insurgency is clearly [...]
Wolves are seen in a forest in the 19 mile exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor during a foggy morning near the abandoned village of Borshchevka, which is situated now in the radiation-ecology reserve some 242 miles southeast of Minsk, September 6, 2009. Wildlife in the exclusion zone has been teeming despite radiation, since [...]
An Audi veteran race car is displayed during the 2009 Geneva Veteran Car Show which opened in Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 25th. A 1933 Rolls-Royce is displayed during the 2009 Geneva Veteran Car Show on Sept. 25, 2009 A 1929 Bugatti is displayed during the 2009 Geneva Veteran Car Show which opened in Geneva A 1910 [...]
Iran will put its newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant under the supervision of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the country’s vice president has said. “This site will be under the supervision of the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] and will have a maximum of five per cent [uranium] enrichment capacity,” Ali Akbar Salehi, the Iranian [...]
At least 40 people have been killed and 2,000 have fled their homes amid widespread flooding after tropical storm Ketsana lashed the Philippines. Manila and 25 other provinces were declared by the government to be in a “state of calamity” on Saturday as heavy rains caused the worst flooding seen in the capital in some 20 years. Five children drowned [...]
Over 10 Million voters chose Beijing’s T3 Capital Airport Terminal as the most advanced architectural project in the last ten years. It is the world’s largest airport terminal complex and cost $4 Billion to develop. Through the ingenuity of designer Norman Foster, the curve of the complex, the shape of the roof, even the color [...]
Binyamin Netanyahu has told the United Nations General Assembly it must prevent Iran’s “tyrants of Tehran” from obtaining nuclear weapons – and accused the world body of bias towards the Palestinians. Israel’s prime minister urged Western states to stand up to what he called the Iranian government’s “religious fanaticism” in an address to the body in New [...]
Experts say the collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces found in a farmer’s field, which may date to the 7th Century, is unparalleled in size and worth over $2 Million. It has been declared treasure by South Staffordshire Coroner Andrew Haigh, meaning that it now belongs to the British Government The Staffordshire Hoard contains [...]
Saudi Arabia has set up a new research university, a multibillion dollar co-educational venture built on the promise of scientific freedom. The King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) – complete with state-of-the-art laboratories, the world’s 14th fastest supercomputer, and one of the biggest endowments worldwide – is scheduled to officially open on Wednesday. [...]
An eerie fog of red dust blanketed homes, the neighboring streets and the sky, reducing visibility to less than 300 feet, and bringing traffic to a standstill in places as motorists turned on their headlights and hoped for the best to go through the surreal conditions. “I saw a blanket of red dust over Sydney [...]
The ousted president of Honduras says he has returned to his home country, nearly three months after he was forced from power and into exile by a military-backed coup. “I am here in Tegucigalpa. I am here for the restoration of democracy, to call for dialogue,” Manuel Zelaya told Honduras’ Canal 36 television network on Monday. The Honduran [...]
Israel and the United States will hold a joint drill in a few weeks, which includes multiple missile defense systems and will be the largest of its kind, Israeli defense officials were quoted as saying. Israeli defense officials said that U.S. warships have headed for Israel well ahead of the drill, named “Juniper Cobra”, for [...]
A Chinese stamp from the Qing Dynasty was sold for US$333,000 in Hong Kong on Sept. 18th. This is the highest price ever obtained for a single Chinese stamp, and the buyer is from Beijing. The stamp is an extremely rare 1897 small one-dollar overprint on a three-cent Chinese Red Revenue stamp which sold during [...]
The Merced Police Department’s Internal Affairs Division is investigating whether an officer twice used a Taser on an unarmed, wheelchair-bound man with no legs. The man who was Tased, Gregory Williams, 40, a double-leg amputee, spent six days in jail on suspicion of domestic violence and resisting arrest, but the Merced County District Attorney’s office [...]
Havana is hosting the biggest open-air concert since the 1959 revolution, featuring some 15 top Latin American, Spanish and Cuban performers. More than One Million people – many wearing white – are attending the free event in Revolution Square, Havana. The above photo shows the incredible turn-out for the Concert with people packed together, side-by-side, [...]
The year was 1968 and as revolutionary fervour spread around the world a group of students stormed the president’s office at Columbia University in New York. Fortunately these were sensible Ivy League radicals and their iconoclasm had its limits. Before things got out of hand they allowed two police officers in to remove the magnificent [...]
Will the “Mad Men” of U.S. television score a second Emmy best drama victory and can anyone stop comic actress Tina Fey and “30 Rock”? The U.S. television industry bestows its highest honors on Sunday at the 61st Prime Time Emmy Awards in a ceremony hosted by actor Neil Patrick Harris that is expected to [...]
This magnificent 360-degree panoramic image, covering the entire southern and northern celestial sphere, reveals the cosmic landscape that surrounds our tiny blue planet. This gorgeous starscape serves as the first of three extremely high-resolution images featured in the GigaGalaxy Zoom project, launched by ESO within the framework of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009). [...]
A model presents a creation by Spanish designer Amai Rodriguez during the Madrid Cibeles Fashion Week in Madrid, Spain, Sept. 18, 2009.
About 4,000 yellow-shirts protestors on Saturday have managed to break the police barricade and continued marching toward an area near the Thai-Combodian border, a move that raised concern of leading to more aggression between the two countries, Thai media reported. At about 2 p.m. the yellow-shirted supporters of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) passed [...]
The Communist Party of China (CPC) central leadership vowed Friday to enhance intra-Party democracy by improving Party congress and election systems. Less than two weeks ahead of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the 17th CPC Central Committee made a consensus at its fourth plenary session which ended [...]
“Tibet has implemented strict environmental protection policies making it so no projects can beapproved unless they pass an environmental assessment”, said Zhang Yongze, director of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Environment Protection recently. “If the economic development project negatively affects the environment, the government will certainly not approve it even if Tibet may lose economic profits”, Zhang [...]
The man who plans on being “the first clown in space” said Thursday he’s got some surprises planned for the crew of the international space station. Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte told reporters he plans to tickle the professional astronauts while they’re sleeping, and he’s also bringing red clown noses to try to lighten [...]
The name Tiffany is synonymous with the finest in jewelry. But a visit to an exhibition at theLuxembourg Museum devoted to Louis Comfort Tiffany is like standing inside a jewel box – without a jewel in sight. The son of the founder of the famed New York jewelry icon preferred to work with glass. These [...]
Thousands of people from the Argentine city of Tandil, located 220 miles from Buenos Aires,welcomed on Thursday the Champion of the U.S. Tennis Open, Juan Martin del Potro. Del Potro was acclaimed by the people, in the southeast of Buenos Aires province, where there are other outstanding tennis players like Mariano Zabaleta and Juan Monaco. [...]
Clues obtained by police increasingly pointed to an inside job in the slaying of a Yale Universitystudent whose body was found stuffed inside a wall five days after she vanished from a heavily secured lab building, which is accessible only to university employees. Police Monday sought to calm fears on the Ivy League campus, saying [...]
Amid contingents of national paraders on the imposing Tiananmen Square in downtown Beijing on October 1, there will be 60 moving color floats, which are unique in shape, splendid and intriguing, with remarkable designs. These floats would display the accomplishments China has scored over the past six decades, the beautiful panoramic landscape, the diligent and hardworking [...]
California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Thursday he will launch an investigation of the major credit rating agencies for the role they played in the financial crisis. The three top agencies — McGraw-Hill’s (MHP) Standard & Poor’s (S&P), Moody’s Investors Service (MCO) and the Fitch unit of France’s Fimalac — raked in huge fees in exchange [...]
The French government has announced it will close a camp in a wasteland district ofCalais known as “the Jungle” where hundreds of migrants trying to get to Britain have set up home. Eric Besson, France’s Immigration Minister, said some of the migrants from Afghanistan, Iraq and other troubled or impoverished nations would be sent home from the zone [...]
Two American couples have been jailed for two years in Egypt for “illegal child trafficking”, when infact they were trying to adopt Egyptian children from an orphanage. Seven other people were also sentenced in the case, the first of its kind in Egypt. It first became public earlier this year after the U.S. Embassy in Cairo reported its suspicions of the [...]
Astronomers have finally found a place outside our solar system where there’s a firm place to stand — if only it weren’t so broiling hot. As scientists search the skies for life elsewhere, they have found more than 300 planets outside our solar system. But they all have been gas balls or can’t be proven [...]
While browsing through the inventory at an Ukranian orphange, Elton John suddenly exclaimed “I’ll take this one!!” Elton and his partner, David Furnish, think that “Lev”, the Ukranian orphan is “just adorable” and would compliment their interior decor. Lev, unrepresented by an attorney, has his fate in the hands of the Ukranian officials who decide [...]
Forty-seven people have been injured and dozens arrested in clashes between demonstrators and police after a street festival in the German city of Hamburg, police have said. Riot police fired water canons as youths threw stones and bottles in the Schanzenviertel neighbourhood early on Saturday. A group of about 200 people hurled stones at a police station [...]
At least 38 people have been killed after a fire engulfed a drug-treatment facility in a city outside Kazakhstan’s largest city Almaty, emergency officials say. The fire, whose cause has not been established, started at roughly 5:30am (2330 GMT) on Saturday in Taldykorgan. Officials said the blaze spread rapidly because firefighters were not informed quickly enough. The [...]
It happened quietly, out of public scrutiny, right after Afghanistan’spresidential elections two weeks ago. An international cause celebre that had been a diplomatic thorn in the side of President Hamed Karzai was finally resolved: Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh, the 25-year-old journalism student who spent nearly two years in prison for downloading materials from the internet, was [...]
The state Senate on Friday approved nearly $1 billion in cuts to California’s prison system, resolving a key piece of the budget-balancing plan lawmakers struck earlier this summer. The amount is less than lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had intended to cut but represented a compromise between a more ambitious bill passed previously by the [...]
An earthquake shook Venezuela’s capital and nearby states Saturday, injuring 14people and causing damage to a few buildings. The U.S. Geological Survey reported a preliminary magnitude of 6.4 for the quake, saying the epicenter was off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast 110 kilometres west of Caracas. The head of Venezuela’s seismological agency, Francisco Garces, put the quake [...]
Juan Almeida, a Cuban revolutionary who fought alongside former Communist leader Fidel Castro, died of a heart attack Friday evening, according to state media. Almeida, 82, was among only a handful of surviving Cuban leaders who still bore the title “Commander of the Revolution.” A vice president and member of the Communist government Central Committee, [...]
40,000 mourners gathered Saturday to remember two California firefighterswho died last month battling the largest fire in the history of Los Angeles County. “We were all blessed by these two men, and we will continue to be blessed by their example and their spirit. Their deeds and their names live on,” Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger told [...]
Police stand guard outside the Harrow Central Mosque in northwest London, September 11, 2009. London police intervened to quell clashes between Muslims and anti-Islamic extremists protesting outside the mosque on Friday.
A poster depicting Al-Baghdadiya TV reporter Muntadhar al-Zeidi displayed at his home. He is to be released from jail for throwing his shoes at then U.S. President George W. Bush in Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Zeidi, is to be released September 14, 2009 after nine months in prison. The poster, in Arabic, reads “Release who achieved national [...]
New York Yankee’s Derek Jeter raises his fist after hitting a single in the second inning for his 2,722 hit breaking Lou Gehrig’s record for most hits ever by a Yankee in the Yankees’ MLB American League baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles, September 11, 2009.
A Tibetan mastiff called Yangtze River Number Two is believed to have broken the world record as the most expensive dog, having been sold to a Chinese woman for a reported four million yuan ($586,000). In keeping with its status the dog — 18 months old and 32 inches high — arrived at its new [...]
The Hubble Space Telescope is to end its life in a blaze of glory after the final upgrade to the orbiting observatory was declared a success with the release of a spectacular series of images. The remarkable pictures, which include a butterfly-shaped nebula created by the death throes of a vast star and a “pillar [...]
The honorary consul to the British High Commission in Jamaica has been found murdered at his home in Montego Bay. John Terry, 65, was discovered with a cord and an item of clothing tied around his neck outside his house in Mount Carey on Wednesday. The British official, who worked as a magistrate on the [...]
In a remarkable transaction, France and Brazil have agreed in principle to a reciprocal trade agreement, which provides that Brazil will purchase 36 Rafale Fighter Jets from France. All the more remarkable is the fact that the Rafale was virtually unsaleable prior to this deal. At $7 Billion for the 36 Fighter Jets, France has [...]
President Obama’s Letter To Morning Post Readers U.S. President Barack Obama wrote to Morning Post editor, Michael Morrison, urging readers to back the national health insurance initiative; Michael – I just finished laying out my plan for health reform at a joint session of Congress. Now, I’m writing directly to you because what happens next [...]
Baltasar Garzon, Spain’s most well-known judge, has appeared before thecountry’s supreme court accused of overstepping his authority in a case involving Spanish civil war atrocities. The court agreed in May to investigate a complaint from an ultraconservative group that accuses Garzon of knowingly acting without jurisdiction in ordering an inquiry into abuses of civilians by forces [...]
At least 31 people have been killed in flash floods in Istanbul, Turkey’s largestcity, which has left cars and lorries stranded across highways after the heaviest rains in the region in 80 years. The dead included seven women who drowned in a minibus taking them to work on Wednesday, the Anatolian news agency said. Mustafa Demir, [...]
The Toronto International Film Festival ranks among the most prestigious international film festivals in the world. For ten days, film lovers, filmmakers, industry professionals and media watch the best in new cinema from established masters and new talent. As one of the world’s most important cultural events, the Festival consistently strives to set the standard [...]
A small curry shop in Malaysia has won an eight-year battle against global fast-food giant McDonalds over the name of its restaurant. The court ruling on Tuesday in favor of the McCurry restaurant, based in Malaysia’s largest city, Kuala Lumpur, effectively ends McDonald’s legal bid to retain exclusive use of the “Mc” prefix in Malaysia. [...]
Three men have been found guilty of plotting to kill thousands of people by blowing up planes flying from London to the United States and Canada with home-made liquid bombs. A Woolwich Crown Court jury convicted Abdulla Ahmed Ali, 28, Tanvir Hussain, 28, and Assad Sarwar, 29, of conspiring to activate liquid bombs disguised as [...]
The film “Baaria” premiered at the Palazzo del Cinema building during the 66th Venice International Film Festival September 2, 2009. The screening of “Baaria”, by Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore, opened the 66th International Film Festival with movie stars, celebrities and those who wished to be seen, walking the red carpet to the first screening. The [...]
The chatter is loud and frequent. Al Qaeda intends to make a “Present” to Muslims worldwide during Ramadan. Osama Bin Laden claims that the “Present” is from him, personally, to all Muslims and that we will see the “Present” very soon. Intelligence suggests that Bin Laden and Al Qaeda have another disaster planned. Perhaps in [...]
In California, more than one of every five requests for medical claims for insured patients, even when recommended by a patient’s physician, are rejected by California’s largest private insurers, amounting to very real Death Panels in practice daily in the nation’s biggest state, according to data released today by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing [...]
Dr. Adam Wasserstorm, scientist and co-founder of Nucleix, holds up bloodsamples, one of them containing fabricated DNA (L), at the company’s laboratory in Tel Aviv August 19, 2009. Scientists at the Israeli biotech company say that DNA evidence collected at a crime scene, often considered by investigators and courts to be a critical indication of [...]
This image of Victoria Crater in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at more of a sideways angle than earlier orbital images of this crater. The camera pointing was 22 degrees east of straight down, yielding a view comparable [...]
True to form, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced today that the State is appealing the Federal court order which requires the State to release 40,000 prison inmates within the next two years. Schwarzenegger says the State will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on the theory that the Federal Courts should not determine when the [...]
Chilean Superior Court Judge Victor Montiglio has issued arrest warrants for 129 people for allegedly helping to murder the critics of former ruler General Augusto Pinochet. The suspects are the largest group so far to face arrest warrants. All worked for the Chilean secret police agency, DINA. They are accused of taking part in the [...]
The wildfires north of Los Angeles continue to spread and now affect an area of 190 square miles with evacuation orders for 12,000 homeowners effective immediately. The fires have seemingly subsided only to explode with fierce flames raging over entire hillsides in moments. Four thousand firefighters cannot stop, or slow, the onslaught of the flames [...]
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Romania Attempts To Tax Witches And Fortune Tellers
Pirates Seize Greek Ship In Protected Gulf Of Aden Corridor
Bangladesh Anthrax Spreads, Public Panics
Top Police Official In Siberia Accused Of Taking $450,000 In Bribes
Russian Banker Shot Dead In Moscow
Russian Performers Drop Fish-Eating Circus Act
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French Unions Stage Nationwide Strike
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