Villagers too scared to sleep in the houses spared by the earthquake in southwestern Pakistan swelled the need for shelter onFriday as aid workers scrambled to help the estimated 15,000 people made homeless in the freezing mountains. The 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck an impoverished
Australia became an integral link in a network of tsunami warning hubs across the Indian and Pacific oceans with the official opening of a national monitoring center on Friday. The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Center that opened in the southern city of Melbourne joins India as a “tsunami
Barack Obama burst onto the national stage four years ago with a speech describing himself self-deprecatingly as a skinny guy with a funny name and an improbable life story. On Tuesday, he may make history by becoming the first black man elected US president. Born in Hawaii to a white mother
Despite having her own store and working on The Devil Wears Prada and Ugly Betty , Patricia Field will always be known as the stylist who turned Carrie Bradshaw into a worldwide fashionista in the TV series Sex and the City ( SATC ). Carrie’s wardrobe has been the [...]
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A California man was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of sending hoax letters labeled “anthrax” to scores of media outlets, the FBI said on Wednesday, warning that many of the threats may still be in the mail. Marc M Keyser, 66, sent more than 120 envelopes containing a compact disc that had
Twelve bomb blasts in quick succession shook the main city of India’s troubled northeastern Assam state and three other towns on Thursday, killing at least 20 people and wounding more than 80, police said. Firefighters doused smouldering remains of cars and motorcycles at one of the blast sites
China sent a team of officials to Sudan on Thursday to seek the release of kidnapped oil workers in the disputed aftermath of rescue efforts after four Chinese hostages were killed. Officials from the Foreign Ministry, Commerce Ministry and China National Petroleum Corpn (CNPC) left Beijing to
As a weak sun rose over the rubble of their homes, shivering Pakistani earthquake survivors on Thursday begged for shelter, food, medicine, or indeed any help at all. Abdul Qadeer, his wife and his five children spent a freezing night huddled under the stars after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake
Firing wildly, Congolese soldiers commandeered cars, taxis and motorbikes in a retreat from advancing rebel fighters, joining tens of thousands of terrified refugees struggling to stay ahead of the violence. As gunfire crackled in this eastern provincial capital, the Tutsi rebels said they had