HONOLULU – The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way with terrifying force and that “urgent action should be taken to protect lives and property.” But the devastating tidal surge predicted after Chile’s magnitude 8.8-earthquake never materialized and [...]
CONCEPCION, Chile – Chile’s president sent the army to help police attack looting on Sunday and appealed for international help in the wake of an earthquake that shattered cities and killed at least 708 people. President Michelle Bachelet announced the sharply higher new death toll after a six-hour meeting with aides and emergency officials struggling [...]
The Ministry of Defence will destroy all future UFO reports it receives so it does not have to make them public, a previously secret memo has revealed. Britain’s official UFO investigation unit and hotline were closed down at the start of December. Since then, reports of strange sights in the skies sent to the MoD [...]
MOSCOW – A court ruled that a Russian man must pay more than 100,000 rubles ($3,330) for medical bills and damages to the parents of a girl he hit when he jumped from a window in a suicide attempt. The 7-year-old girl was in hospital for months after the man fell on her when he [...]
QUETTA, Pakistan – A Pakistani woman gave birth to a baby girl in an auto-rickshaw stuck in a traffic jam when police closed roads to let President Asif Ali Zardari’s motorcade drive by. The woman was being driven to hospital in the city of Quetta on Thursday evening when police blocked roads for Zardari and [...]
GENEVA – Operators of the world’s largest atom smasher restarted their massive machine Sunday in a run up to experiments probing secrets of the universe, a spokeswoman said. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, sent low energy beams of protons in both directions around the 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider [...]
PARIS – A violent late winter storm with fierce rain and hurricane-strength winds ripped across western Europe on Sunday, battering France and four other countries, leaving at least 51 people dead. The storm, named Xynthia, was the worst in France since 1999 when 90 people died. Many of the 45 victims in France drowned, while [...]
MARJAH, Afghanistan – More than 2,000 U.S. Marines and about 1,000 Afghan troops who stormed the Taliban town of Marjah as part of a major NATO offensive against a resurgent Taliban will stay several months to ensure insurgents don’t return, Marine commanders said Sunday. Meanwhile, insurgents are striking back by attacking resupply convoys moving in [...]
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