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FEMA refuses to help local PBS affiliate rebuild
"On the air, WYES-Channel 12 looks fine. Everywhere else, the local PBS affiliate's headquarters near City Park, devastated by 5 feet of Hurricane Katrina levee-failure floodwaters, remains a literal shell of its... Somalia attacks make mosque, market 'human butcher houses'
"MOGADISHU, Somalia (CNN) -- Heavy shelling struck Somalia's capital city on Thursday, leaving pools of blood around a neighborhood mosque, a devastated market and 11 civilians dead, according to witnesses and a local journalist."""Bakaraha market has turned into a human...Georgia says Russian aircraft bombed its air bases
"Russia sent columns of tanks and reportedly bombed Georgian air bases Friday after Georgia launched a major military offensive Friday to retake the breakaway province of South Ossetia, threatening to ignite a broader conflict. Hundreds of civilians... Wife 'died a hero' in Afghanistan
" Wife 'died a hero' in Afghanistan Cpl Bryant, Cpl Sean Robert Reeve and Paul Stout were among... Myanmar approves all pending visas for UN aid workers
Myanmar has made good on its pledge to Ban Ki Moon, and approved the visas for foreign aid works that it had been delaying on. However it is still unclear if they will accept aid from American and French military... China worries about flood threat in quake zone
Chinese Army had been working hard in clearing the clogged rivers in quake affected Sichuan province. Earth quake sent millions of tons of earth and rock tumbling into some of the region's narrow valleys. Rising... Beware the toads...what's in your emergency kit?
UPDATE: CNN has a video of the Bakersfield "frogswarm"Here's an interesting article from the "Unknown Country" website that just might make you go, "hmmmmm.""In the days prior to the gigantic earthquake that devastatedSichuan province in China, oddswarmsof frogs were... Death Toll From Myanmar Cyclone Nearly Doubles to 78,000
At least 77,738 people have died since the cyclone hit Myanmar may 3, with 55,917 others still missing, reported Myanmar state television.Pressure continues to mount from the international community towards the... Burma is in trouble
UPDATE: 5:53PM ESTSome disturbing allegations are coming to light this evening about the military stealing food from aid organizations that are meant to help the victims of the storms."The directors of several relief... Family's anguish over murdered son in South-East London
A teenager who had just bought his first lottery ticket and was off to Disneyland later this year, bled to death in his brother's arms after an apparently unprovoked assault at a baker's shop in Lee Green, south of... Visitors leaving flowers for spider monkeys at Vancouver Zoo
Visitors to the Greater Vancouver Zoo in Aldergrove are leaving cards and flowers for the two spider monkeys - Jocko who was killed, and Mia who is believed to have been taken. Police have no information on the... 'Columbine III' Bomb Plot: Teen Wanted 'High Body Count' in South Carolina
" A South Carolina teenager arrested for plotting to bomb his school had designs for an arsenal of explosives including a nail bomb that would have "devastated" students in a crowded hallway, a local police chief said today. Ryan Schallenberger, 18, called his plot "Columbine...Devastating News for NZ Sheep Farmers
" Sheep and beef farmers around the country will be devastated to hear that their hopes of industry consolidation have been shredded by PPCS. Meat Industry Action Group Chairman Keith Milne said he was horrified that the Mega Merger was not going to go ahead and he said that...Scientists: Global Warming Cure
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Though fine in theory, perhaps it is best left as a theory. Somehow I don't think the world is ready for worldwide famine, drought and summer blizzards which may last... Plague resurfacing as a worldwide threat
"Plague, the disease that devastated medieval Europe, is re-emerging worldwide and poses a growing but overlooked threat, researchers warned on Tuesday.While it has only killed some 100 to 200 people annually
over the past 20 years, plague has appeared in new countries...
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