A magnitude 4.7 earthquake has struck South of the Fiji Islands at a depth of 131.3 km (81.6 miles), the quake hit at 22:44:42 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011.
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck Vanuatu at a depth of 209.9 km (130.4 miles), the quake hit at 21:28:28 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011.
A magnitude 5.3 earthquake has struck near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan at a depth of 57.5 km (35.7 miles), the quake hit at 20:59:05 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011.
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake has struck the Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska at a depth of 18.1 km (11.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:24:59 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011.
A radio station run by Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist group has awarded weapons to children who won a Koran-reciting and general knowledge contest.
Windsor Police say thieves stole more than 1,000 pairs of high-end sunglasses from a specialty store overnight Friday.
Rapidly escalating street battles between opponents of Yemen's regime and forces loyal to its embattled president spread to the home districts of senior government figures and other highly sensitive areas of the capital on Tuesday. A third day of fighting, including a mortar attack on unarmed protesters, killed nine people, medical officials said.
At least 80 students, teachers and staff at Ennis High School have tested positive for exposure to tuberculosis.
A group of Italian scientists went on trial Tuesday for failing to predict an earthquake that killed more than 300 people in central Italy in 2009 despite signs of increased seismic activity in the area.
The number of people killed by a contaminated batch of Colorado cantaloupes has risen to four, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) said Monday.
At least 25 Shia Muslim pilgrims have been killed after gunmen opened fire on a bus in western Pakistan, officials said.
German industrial firm Siemens has withdrawn 500m euros (£436m) from a French bank and put it in the European Central Bank, according to reports.
Japan's top weapons maker has confirmed it was the victim of a cyber attack reportedly targeting data on missiles, submarines and nuclear power plants.
Draped in a white shroud, the body of a man is engulfed in flames atop a massive pile of wood, the insatiable fire churning out ashes for hours.
Autumn has come twice this year, according to the Woodland Trust, after the dry spring and invasive pests caused some trees to drop their leaves early.
Super Girl, one of China's most popular talent shows, has become the first major casualty of a new campaign to cleanse Chinese television of "vulgar" programming.
Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief executive of Alliance Trust, has dismissed Europe's attempts to solve its debt crisis as "economic cosmetic surgery", warning there is "more pain" to come over the next few months.
An english-speaking boy who claims he lived rough for five years in a German forest walked in off the street and told staff at Berlin's City Hall: "I'm all alone in the world, I don't know who I am. Please help me."
Greece is quickly running out of the cash it needs to keep the lights on as the latest lifeline from the rest of Europe remains just out of reach.
A look at the plot of the No. 1 film at the box office, “Contagion,” shows a striking thematic resemblance to the debt crisis in Greece.
A French banking system shaken by a crisis of confidence and hobbled by the need to deleverage and write down assets could choke off credit to consumers and businesses and shatter France's fragile recovery.
Greece on Sunday pledged to take the tough decisions needed to avoid default but announced no new austerity measures to secure international bailout funds next month.
The looming showdown at the United Nations this week over Palestinian statehood could be either a "once-in-a-lifetime" opportunity to restart peace talks or the spark that inflames a new wave of violence in the region, officials said Sunday.
British Airways faces a bill of nearly €50m, the highest of any airline, when carriers around the world are brought into the European Union’s carbon emissions trading scheme next year, a new study estimates.
As Washington looks to squeeze savings from once-sacrosanct entitlements like Social Security and Medicare, another big social welfare system is growing as rapidly, but with far less scrutiny: the health and pension benefits of military retirees.
In a blunt rejoinder to congressional Republicans, President Barack Obama called for $1.5 trillion in new taxes Monday, part of a total 10-year deficit reduction package totaling more than $3 trillion. "We can't just cut our way out of this hole," the president said.
A teenage girl almost died in a million-to-one case of blood poisoning caused by her tampon.
A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has struck Greece at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 20:02:48 UTC Tuesday 20th September 2011.
Scientists' predictions about the mysterious dark matter purported to make up most of the mass of the Universe may have to be revised. Research on dwarf galaxies suggests they cannot form in the way they do if dark matter exists in the form that the most common model requires it to.
That may mean that the Large Hadron Collider will not be able to spot it.
Leading cosmologist Carlos Frenk spoke of the "disturbing" developments at the British Science Festival in Bradford.
The current theory holds that around 4% of the Universe is made up of normal matter - the stuff of stars, planets and people - and around 21% of it is dark matter.
The remainder is made up of what is known as dark energy, an even less understood hypothetical component of the Universe that would explain its ever-increasing expansion.
Scientists' best ideas for the formation and structure of the Universe form what is called the "cosmological standard model", or lambda-CDM - which predicts elementary particles in the form of cold dark matter (CDM).
These CDM particles are believed to have formed very early in the Universe's history, around one millionth of a second after the Big Bang, and they are "cold" in the sense that they are not hypothesised to be particularly fast-moving.
The existence of the particles has not yet been proven, as they are extremely difficult to detect - they cannot be "seen" in the traditional sense, and if they exist, they interact only very rarely with the matter we know. Read More
Renowned: Robert Raecke carries an American Flag with him while jumping from an aeroplane at the Schenectady Airshow in 2001.A veteran skydiver killed himself by shedding his parachute mid-air and freefalling 8,000 to his death.
Horrified bystanders watched as Robert Raecke, 60, hurtled to the ground on Sunday afternoon, after unbuckling his parachute above a New York field.
He had left a suicide note, police said, although the reason for him wanting to kill himself remains unclear.
His body was found in a New York field in the Saratoga County town of Northumberland, 35 miles north of Albany.
Mr Raecke, who was known as Señor, had skydived more than 9,000 times before and was an instructor at Saratoga Skydiving Adventures in Northumberland.
Saratoga County Sheriff's Investigator Rick Capasso said an investigation by the sheriff’s department concluded the death was a suicide. Read More
BUSHFIRES started by arsonists in the Blue Mountains will take days to extinguish after strong winds yesterday brought down power lines and fanned dozens of blazes across NSW. Two blazes threatened homes in the Blue Mountains and several grass fires spread in parts of western Sydney.
Firefighters also worked to contain larger blazes in the Hunter and the state's central west. Residents in parts of the Hunter, as well as on Sydney's north shore and northern beaches, were left without power for several hours due to high winds.
Police said arson was suspected in Leura and Katoomba, with extra officers called to search for culprits.
Wind gusts of up to 80km/h hampered efforts to extinguish the main blaze, which dropped off cliffs into the Jamison Valley.
Rural Fire Service Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons said the actions of arsonists were "disgraceful" and "sickening". Read More
Seismologists around the world watch trial of officials who have been charged with manslaughter for not warning the public aggressively enough of an earthquake that killed more than 300 people.
Poachers in Zimbabwe have poisoned waterholes in five game reserves to kill animals, say wildlife officials. Nine elephants were found dead with their tusks removed from the carcasses.
Five lions also died but officials said their skins were not taken, suggesting they were accidental victims of the poisoning.
The incidents are the first of their type on record and tests are being carried out to determine the nature of the chemicals used.
A spokeswoman for the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority, Caroline Washaya Moyo, said two buffalo were also killed, as were vultures that had eaten the dead animals.
Ms Washaya Moyo said the parks authority had deployed teams in the affected game reserves to investigate the poisoning.
Zimbabwe has been battling to curb poaching, which has mainly targeted rhinoceros and elephants for their horns and tusks.
Ten rhinos have been killed in Zimbabwe by poachers so far this year.
The crime is driven by booming demand for rhino horn in Asia, where it is believed to have medicinal properties, despite ample scientific evidence to the contrary.
Conservationists have warned that rhino populations are facing their worst poaching crisis for decades, especially in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya.
In May, authorities in Kenya seized more than one tonne of ivory at Nairobi's international airport.
About 115 elephant tusks were found inside metal containers by sniffer dogs. Source
Little Rock -The view of the Arkansas River enjoyed by bicyclists and walkers using the new Two Rivers Bridge is currently being marred by hundreds of dead fish. Investigators with both the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission and the Arkansas Department of Pollution Control and Ecology are looking into what caused the death of the fish...which appear to be white bass or freshwater drum fish.
Game and Fish will be working to count the dead fish Tuesday afternoon. They are easily seen at the base of both sides of the pedestrian bridge.
A PC&E spokesperson says it appears all of the dead fish belong to the same species, which limits but does not eliminate the possibility that pollution or toxins are to blame for the kill.
So far PH levels and dissolved oxygen levels in the water have tested at normal levels.
We will have more information on this developing story on our evening newscasts. Source
Markets continued their now familiar nosedive Tuesday on news that Italy, the eurozone's third largest economy, was downgraded by credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s.
About 80,000 residents have been ordered to flee and more than 1 million people were urged to evacuate Nagoya, a city in central Japan, Tuesday as a typhoon was expected to hit the area.
Two B.C. families whose infants died inexplicably are sounding the alarm about mothers taking antidepressants while pregnant.
The "Big Three" Southern California grocery chains are bracing for a strike and possible shut down after the union representing grocery workers canceled their contract with the stores.
Food shortages, unemployment, 43 million on food stamps… and they say we are in a recovery period? People, it is just beginning.
All over America today, desperate people are doing desperate things. As the economy continues to crumble, the American people are starting to become very frustrated. Millions have lost their homes and millions have lost their jobs. As hopelessness and despair rise, an increasing number of Americans are turning to crime or are lashing out in unpredictable ways. Many parts of America are rapidly turning into lawless hellholes. In some of the areas that have been the hardest hit by the declining economy, police forces are being severely cut back and desperate criminals are being given a lot of freedom to roam. In fact, in some major cities (such as Oakland, California), the police have announced that there are certain types of crime that they will not even respond to any more. For a couple of decades, crime had been steadily declining in the United States, but now we are seeing very disturbing reports from all over the nation of desperate people doing desperate things as they scramble to survive or as they vent their frustrations. If the examples that you are about to read are any indication, then America is headed down a very dark path.
What if a Muslim country, such as Iran, launched a nuclear attack against us, or if agents aligned with Pakistan using dirty bombs were to attack America? Would Barack Hussein Obama retaliate with nuclear force, as has been our stated policy since the 1950s? Would he even unleash a barrage of non-nuclear shock and awe that would level those countries so that they'd be incapable of striking a second time?
The American dream has given way to a rude awakening.
Of California’s 12.1 percent unemployed, not many of them are teachers. Teachers here, thanks to their powerful public employee union, are doing pretty good, pulling down well above average wages and excessive pension rights that taxpayers really cannot afford, which contribute mightily to our state government’s perpetual debt crisis, itself a huge drag on the economy in general. Yet of the unemployed in California, almost 35% are young people in the recent high school graduate age category who are without work. Of those, about half of young black males are unemployed in California – three years into Barrack Obama’s presidency. Over 21% of black Californians in general are unemployed. Where is their hope in Obama’s plan for a job? Well, they have very little hope under Obama.
A FORMER head of Saudi Arabian intelligence and ex-ambassador to Washington, Turki al-Faisal, has warned that an American veto of Palestinian membership of the United Nations would end the ''special relationship'' between the two countries, and make the US ''toxic'' in the Arab world.
Tonight Regulation Nation week continues. It's our look at how the regulatory culture of this country is impacting businesses - and consumers.
For a former high-level official in Israel's security services, the news this week was not upsetting - that Iran on its own had produced new, advanced nuclear centrifuges.
A decade of close ties with the US is now showing its side effects in Delhi. Kissnger said it best when he cliamed that “it was dangerous for countries to be America’s enemies, but even more dangerous for countries to be America’s friend.” This is certainly true for Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. Indian National Congress politicians blamed the ‘foreign hand’-a euphemism for the USA.the INC after the party had dubbed the JP movement as a handiwork of external forces.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul said Monday that America could save trillions of dollars if the country cut funding from wars - "and all the nonsense that we do around the world."
In yet another display of government inefficiency, government officials in Bethesda, Maryland, located just outside of Washington, D.C., have decided to spend $4 million to house 12 homeless people for a single year. That averages out to approximately $330,000 per person, a figure that grows even more absurd when one observes that the average price of a single family home in the United States is just over $170,000.
Greece has a 98 percent chance of defaulting on its debt in the next five years as Prime Minister George Papandreou fails to reassure investors his country can survive the euro-region crisis.
