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System of phone alerts could warn of extreme weather in India
Jan 07, 2013 (UPI)
Computer scientists in India have created image-based mobile phone alerts for extreme weather they say could prevent casualties in cyclones. When Cyclone Phaili...
Obama signs $9.7 bn aid bill for Sandy victims
Jan 06, 2013 (AFP)
US President Barack Obama signed a bill Sunday approving $9.7 billion in emergency disaster aid for victims of superstorm Sandy, after a delay sparked outrage a...
Obama considers broad arms sales restrictions: report
Jan 06, 2013 (AFP)
The administration of President Barack Obama is considering a broad array of measures to curb the nation's gun violence, including more than just a reinstatemen...
Congress approves $9.7 bn aid for storm Sandy victims
Jan 04, 2013 (AFP)
The US Congress finally approved emergency disaster aid for victims of Hurricane Sandy on Friday, but only after a delay that sparked East Coast Republican outr...
Natural catastrophes caused $160 bn in damage: Munich Re
Jan 03, 2013 (AFP)
Natural catastrophes including US hurricane Sandy caused $160 billion (122 billion euros') worth of damage in 2012, the world's leading reinsurer, Munich Re, es...
Republican leader vows to hold vote on stalled storm aid
Jan 02, 2013 (AFP)
A chastened US House Republican leadership scrambled Wednesday to tamp down seething bipartisan fury over a failure to approve emergency relief for victims of s...
Haitian leader urges unity to help rebuild nation
Jan 01, 2013 (AFP)
Haitian President Michel Martelly made a New Year plea for unity, urging his countrymen to rebuild together their shattered country almost three years after a d...
26 injured in Macau-Hong Kong ferry collision
Dec 29, 2012 (AFP)
Twenty-six people were injured on Saturday in a collision between a Hong Kong-bound passenger ferry and a buoy in Macau, authorities said. The ferry crashed int...
Fukushima 'unprecedented challenge': new Japan PM
Dec 29, 2012 (AFP)
The clean-up at Fukushima after its tsunami-sparked nuclear meltdowns is unlike anything humanity has ever undertaken, Japan's prime minister said Saturday duri...
Burst shark aquarium hurts 15 in Shanghai shopping centre
Dec 28, 2012 (AFP)
Dramatic video footage has captured the moment a 33-ton shark tank exploded in a Shanghai shopping centre, engulfing onlookers in a torrent of water and glass a...
US Navy sailors sue Japan's TEPCO over radiation
Dec 28, 2012 (AFP)
Eight US Navy sailors are suing Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) for hundreds of millions of dollars over allegations the Japanese firm lied to them about r...
N.Z. quake city puts faith in cardboard cathedral
Dec 27, 2012 (AFP)
When Japanese architect Shigeru Ban designed a new cathedral in earthquake-devastated Christchurch, he chose the most unlikely of materials -- cardboard -- for ...
Fukushima operator boosts compensation estimate
Dec 27, 2012 (AFP)
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant on Thursday sought yet more money to pay ballooning bills for compensating victims of last year's...
China suspends officials after 11 kids die in road wreck
Dec 26, 2012 (AFP)
A city in east China suspended 12 officials Wednesday, including a vice mayor, policemen and education administrators, after 11 children were killed in a road w...
'No Christmas' for Philippine typhoon victims
Dec 23, 2012 (AFP)
Survivors of a typhoon that ravaged the southern Philippines will bypass Christmas this year as they hole up in evacuation centres and continue to bury their de...
Christmas misery in Haiti camp, three years after quake
Dec 23, 2012 (AFP)
While people around the world celebrate the arrival of Christmas, residents of a refugee camp in Haiti say hunger and want will mark the holiday, like every oth...
360,000 Haitians still displaced after 2010 quake: IOM
Dec 21, 2012 (AFP)
Nearly three years after a catastrophic earthquake in Haiti, some 360,000 Haitians are still living in emergency camps, the International Organization for Migra...
'Apocalypse Noah': Dutch Christian readies escape Ark
Dec 20, 2012 (AFP)
A Dutch Christian has painstakingly prepared a lifeboat in his garden capable of saving 50 people ahead of biblical floods he expects to accompany Friday's Maya...
China arrests nearly 1,000 doomsday 'cult' members
Dec 20, 2012 (AFP)
China has arrested nearly 1,000 people in a crackdown on a Christian sect that spread doomsday rumours and targeted communist rule, state media said Thursday ah...
Zuckerberg donates $500 mn to charity
Dec 19, 2012 (AFP)
With Christmas just days away, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has announced a donation of about a half-billion dollars worth of his company's stock to char...
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