Member 4936Soldiers hike to quake-buried Chinese villages (AP)14-05-2008 08h02AP - Soldiers hiking over landslide-blocked roads reached the epicenter of China's devastating earthquake Tuesday, pulling bodies and a few survivors from collapsed buildings. The death toll of more than 12,000 was certain to rise as the buried were found. Police report 60 killed by bombs in western India (AP)14-05-2008 07h54AP - A series of bombs exploded across the ancient city of Jaipur on Tuesday, killing at least 60 people and transforming busy markets, a jewelry bazaar and a Hindu temple into scenes of carnage. Trapped students had little time to escape quake (AP)14-05-2008 03h22AP - The high school students were settling in to afternoon arts and humanities classes when the massive quake struck. The school collapsed so rapidly one floor "pancaking" atop another that there was practically no time to escape. China moves quickly to deal with quake (AP)14-05-2008 04h49AP - Within 24 hours of China's deadly quake, some 20,000 troops converged on the disaster area to help dig out the dead and injured, and military planes and trucks ferried in another 30,000 reinforcements. Myanmar police block aid workers, food piles up (AP)14-05-2008 05h53AP - Police barred foreign aid workers from reaching cyclone survivors in hard-hit areas Tuesday, while emergency food shipments backed up at the main airport for Myanmar's biggest city. Green aliens and UFOs said to visit UK-secret files (Reuters)14-05-2008 08h07Reuters - Aliens from outer space have been visiting Britain for years and UFO sightings doubled after the film Close Encounters was released in 1977, according to secret files collating reports by members of the public. Israel Museum puts Dead Sea scroll on rare display (AP)14-05-2008 07h51AP - One of the most important Dead Sea scrolls is going on display in Jerusalem this week more than four decades after it was last seen by the public. The 24-foot scroll with the text of the Bible's Book of Isaiah had been in a dark, temperature-controlled room at the Israel Museum since 1967. It went on display two years earlier, but curators replaced it with a facsimile after noticing new cracks in the calfskin parchment. Brazil's environment minister resigns (AP)14-05-2008 08h18AP - Environment Minister Marina Silva resigned Tuesday, ending an often stormy six-year term that put her in conflict with developers in the Amazon rain forest. <<< Prev member Next member >>> Randon Members Member 4260 Member 3284 Member 3381 Member 4536 Member 1320 Member 2197 Member 5168 Member 2749 Member 1840 Member 4087 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 | |
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