A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck off the Hokkaido, Japan Region at a depth of 32.3 km ( 20.1 miles), the quake hit at 00:07:09 UTC Monday 22nd August 2011.
A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 54.2 km ( 33.7 miles), the quake hit at 21:39:58 UTC Sunday 21st August 2011.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake has struck off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra, Indonesia at a depth of 39 km ( 24.2 miles), the quake hit at 21:14:05 UTC Sunday 21st August 2011.
Libyan rebels raced into Tripoli Sunday and met little resistance as Moammar Gadhafi's defenders melted away and his 42-year rule rapidly crumbled. The euphoric fighters celebrated with residents of the capital in Green Square, the symbolic heart of the fading regime.
Libyan government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said on Sunday that 1,300 people have been killed in a rebel assault on the capital, describing the fighting as a "real tragedy."
Muammar Gaddafi's former right-hand man Abdel Salam Jalloud, who has defected to the Libyan rebel side, said on Sunday Gaddafi would be toppled within 10 days.
REBELS "NOW IN CONTROL" OF MOST OF TRIPOLI'S NEIGHBOURHOODS. NATO BOMBING RUNS CONTINUE OVER CITY TO ASSIST REBEL ADVANCES. GADDAFI'S SONS BEING TRANSFERRED TO INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURTS. GOVERNMENT VOWS "NO SURRENDER." MORE UPDATES AS SITUATION UNFOLDS.
Playing video games and using smartphones are helping parents and children bond, according to new university research.
Italian art experts who restored a cryptic medieval fresco depicting a tree of fertility have been accused of censuring the work by painting over the numerous phalluses which dangle from its boughs.
Libyan rebels claimed they sent fighters into Tripoli in a dawn raid by sea, reinforcing gunmen who launched the first uprising against Col Muammar Gaddafi since the start of the war.
Pope Benedict XVI urged a crowd of nearly two million young Catholics to become missionaries for the faith, Sunday, as he celebrated an open-air mass to conclude World Youth Day in Madrid.
Aaron Denham, who was left in a coma after a road accident has made a miraculous recovery - as his family stood at his bedside deciding what songs to play at his funeral.
For the first time in months, witnesses in Tripoli reported heavy fighting across the capital late Saturday night, even as rebel forces claimed to have encircled the city by taking major towns to its east, west and south.
The number of deaths caused by the cholera epidemic in the Dominican Republic have reached 109, while there are 15,876 suspect cases, according to figures revealed Friday by the health authorities.
After returning late Wednesday night from a three-day bus tour of Middle America, President Obama left Washington once again Thursday afternoon -- this time for Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts and a 10-day vacation with his family.
The flash flooding that killed four people and forced others to swim to safety or climb onto car roofs was a freak accident caused by heavy rainfall that overwhelmed the sewer system just as rush-hour traffic clogged low-lying city streets, officials said Saturday.
Costco, the membership warehouse-club chain, was an early leader in offering electric-vehicle charging to its customers, setting an example followed by other retailers, including Best Buy and Walgreen. By 2006, Costco had installed 90 chargers at 64 stores, mostly in California but also some in Arizona, New York and Georgia. Even after General Motors crushed its EV1 battery cars, the Costco chargers stayed in place.
Mr. Hoover said that E.V. charging was “very inefficient and not productive” for the retailer. “The bottom line is that there are a lot of other ways to be green,” he said. “We have five million members in the region, and just a handful of people are using these devices.” more
Interests in the Caribbean, Bahamas and the Southeast Coast, will want to keep close tabs on the status of Tropical Storm Irene.
Authorities in Mexico found the decapitated bodies of four men and a woman in Acapulco on Saturday, the latest in a string of slayings in the popular Pacific resort this week.
Diplomats scrambled to avert a crisis in relations between Egypt and Israel on Saturday, and the Israeli government issued a rare statement of regret for the killing of three Egyptian security officers by an Israeli warplane.
The latest deals to "save" American and Greek public finances - those countries can now put themselves into even deeper debt - should puncture the illusion the welfare state was ever a success; fact is, it was always built on borrowed time and borrowed money.
Just when Wall Street seemed to have settled down, a barrage of bad economic reports collided with fresh worries about European banks on Thursday and triggered a global sell-off in stocks.
If the despair in global stock markets is your guide, it seems that we’re already in a new recession. “The market is trading off of really primal fear,” one U.S. stockbroker told the Bloomberg financial wire Friday.
Interactive gaming allows many youngsters access to an action-packed, adrenaline-fuelled world - while in reality, they can sit undisturbed for hours.
Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, a son of Libya's ruler Moammar Gadhafi and a top official in the regime, has been captured by opposition forces, a rebel official said Sunday night.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake has struck Java, Indonesia at a depth of 78.9 km ( 49 miles), the quake hit at 16:54:21 UTC Sunday 21st August 2011.
Leadership is about self-sacrifice, not personal gain.
Animals and plants are shifting their natural home ranges towards the cooler poles three times faster than scientists previously thought.
A new drama tells the story of a Jewish lawyer who confronted Hitler 80 years ago - earning the dictator's life-long hatred. So who was Hans Litten?
nternational concern is growing over a fresh wave of violence between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants.
A Saskatoon businesswoman is making a folk remedy for new mothers a little easier to swallow.
The United States, the world's biggest economy, has never defaulted on its debt and never will, said Vice President Joe Biden as he wrapped up his five-day visit to China on Sunday.
A barrage of rockets and mortars fired into southern Israel continued Sunday, the latest in a four-day escalation of violence sparked by a series of attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers Thursday.
He is a good Christian, Michael is telling his two therapists. He goes to church most Sundays. He’s a devoted husband and father of two daughters.
A statue resembling the goddess Athena and jewelry bearing images from Greco-Roman mythology may not be objects you'd expect to see in a museum exhibit of Buddhist art from Pakistan. Their presence among carvings of Buddha and Indian deities is meant to serve as a reminder of Pakistan's oft-forgotten multicultural roots, which form the basis of a new exhibit, "The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara."
The show, which runs until October 30 at New York's Asia Society, is the first to bring works of Gandharan art to the United States since 1960. The pieces, on loan from museums in Karachi and Lahore, highlight Pakistan's history as a crossroads of cultural influences, despite present-day associations of the country as an incubator of religious extremism, museum director Melissa Chiu said.
"When we think of Pakistan, Americans might associate it with the place where Osama bin Laden was captured, with terrorism and natural disasters," she said. "But actually, it has a much longer history that dates back to an ancient culture that gives us a sense of a pluralistic tradition that was all about tolerance." more
Don't be a denialist. Instead put on your jeggings (breathe in) or mankini (be careful) and retweet this article.
Ron Paul is getting more publicity out of not getting publicity in the wake of his virtual tie with Bachmann in the Ames poll than he’s gotten to date. Suddenly everyone’s noticing the “mainstream” media is trying very hard not to notice the twelve-term Texas congressman and libertarian icon, despite his success in quadrupling his previous Iowa showing and barely being edged out by Bachmann. Jon Stewart’s takedown of the Ron Paul media blackout is devastating, and, for the most part, funny. Barring that crack about Paul being “the ‘Patient Zero’ of the Tea Party” – likening tea partiers to HIV-positives is offensive on so many levels, I don’t know where to start – Stewart’s critique of the anti-Paul bias in the mainstream media is 100 percent accurate. Roger Simon, writing in Politico, found it “amazing” and “disturbing” that “Paul almost wins the thing and he remains poison.”
After months of protests and regime violence, King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia, one of the last absolute monarchs in the world, has called on Syria’s embattled president, Bashar al-Assad, to stop the “killing machine” repressing his own people and accept at least some of the demands of Syrians calling for an end to Assad’s decade old dictatorship. The king backed up his statement by recalling Saudi Arabia’s ambassador from Damascus, and its clients Bahrain and Kuwait quickly followed Riyadh’s lead.
The killing of Osama Bin Laden did not put cuts in national security spending on the table, but the debt-ceiling debate finally did. And mild as those projected cuts might have been, last week newly minted Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was already digging in his heels and decrying the modest potential cost-cutting plans as a "doomsday mechanism" for the military. Pentagon allies on Capitol Hill were similarly raising the alarm as they moved forward with this year's even larger military budget.
The first half of 2011 has been the deadliest six months for civilians in Afghanistan since the decade-old war began, according to the United Nations mission in the country.
Scientists and doctors are calling for a new national policy in Japan that mandates the testing of food, soil, water, and the air for radioactivity still being emitted from Fukushima's heavily damaged Daiichi nuclear power plant.
When considering starvation, context is everything. This fact is easily illustrated. Consider, for a moment, the actions of David Blaine, the US magician, who in 2003 spent 44 days in a six-foot-by-three-foot plexiglas chamber suspended in the air near Tower Bridge, London, without any food.
The Senate and the Roman People have declared that the US government is spending too much money. We have to live within our means. Difficult choices lie ahead. We can't do everything anyone might like us to do. Everything is on the table.
The massive volatility and sharp equity-price correction now hitting global financial markets signal that most advanced economies are on the brink of a double-dip recession. A financial and economic crisis caused by too much private-sector debt and leverage led to a massive re-leveraging of the public sector in order to prevent Great Depression 2.0. But the subsequent recovery has been anaemic and sub-par in most advanced economies given painful deleveraging.
Asia is at the centre of an inevitable development of our digital world: the coming mineral wars.
When the afternoon bell rings at August Town Primary School, children kick around a plastic bottle filled with gravel instead of a soccer ball. When administrators need to buy a copier, they turn to parents, businesses or foreign embassies for donations.
