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Workers use a jackhammer to remove dangerous brick parts from a damaged building in Christchurch, New Zealand, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010 after the city was hit by a 7.1-magnitude earthquake Saturday.
(photo: AP / Rob Griffith)
Aftershocks rattle quake-hit New Zealand city
The Siasat Daily
| Wellington, September 06: Aftershocks rocked New Zealand's second-biggest city on Monday causing further damage and forcing authorities to extend a state of emergency after the country's most damaging earthquake in 80 years. | More than 20 aftershocks, the strongest with a magnitude of 4.8, were f...
National Hurricane Center, deputy director Ed Rappaport, tracks tropical storm Ida at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009.
(photo: AP / Alan Diaz)
New tropical storm heads toward Mexico, U.S.
CNN
| (CNN) -- A tropical depression in southwestern Gulf of Mexico strengthened into a tropical storm Monday morning, forecasters said. | Tropical Storm Hermine is headed toward the coasts of Mexico and the United States with 40 mph (65 kph) winds, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, F...
New tropical storm heads toward Mexico, U.S.
CNN
| (CNN) -- A tropical depression in southwestern Gulf of Mexico strengthened into a tropical storm Monday morning, forecasters said. | Tropical Storm Hermine is headed toward the coasts of Mexico and the United States with 40 mph (65 kph) winds, acco...
Guatemala mudslides from torrential rains kill at least 38 and bury 2 buses
The Boston Globe
| NAHUALA, Guatemala - Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused mudslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala - most of them in separate disasters along the same highway. | In the village of Nahuala, rescue crews searched throu...
Guatemala declares 'national tragedy' as several killed in landslides
The Times Of India
GUATEMALA CITY: Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared a "national tragedy" on Sunday after landslides killed at least 36 people and left rescuers digging in the mud for dozens still missing. | Colom declared a state of emergency as fears grew th...
Mudslides kill at least 22 on Guatemala highway
Zeenews
Guatemala City: Officials say that mudslides on a Guatemalan highway have killed at least 22 people. Scores more are missing. | Police say the first slide yesterday buried a bus under tons of mud at kilometer marker 81 on a highway leading north towa...
Rescue workers carry the body of a mudslide victim in Nahuala, western Guatemala, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010. At least 38 people were killed after torrential rains caused mudslides in different areas of the country, injuring 20 others and leaving over 60 people missing.
AP / Moises Castillo
Guatemala landslides bury up to 100 people
The Star
| GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A massive landslide buried up to 100 people in Guatemala trying to dig out a bus caught in deep mud as torrential rains battered the country. | The wee...
Fire and Urban Search and Rescue personnel arrive at a destroyed building in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010, a day after the city was hit by an earthquake. Christchurch was struck by a powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake  that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines and also ripped a new 11-foot (3.5 meter) wide fault line in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday.
AP / Rob Griffith
Quake that tore down a New Zealand's history
The Australian
| "THIS is the greatest disaster New Zealand has ever seen," Agriculture Minister David Carter told The Australian yesterday. | Mr Carter was visiting destroyed farmhouse...
Bricks and other rubble are scattered outside stores in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010.
AP / NZPA, David Wethey
City awakes to billion-dollar aftershock
NZ Herald
5:30 AM Sunday Sep 5, 2010 Share Email Print Expand Shrink | Looting, homeless families and thousands of lives thrown into disarray: Kiwis are coming to terms with the devastation ...
Earl reaches Canada with hurricane-speed punch
The Star
| HALIFAX, Canada (Reuters) - Hurricane Earl lashed into the Canadian Maritime provinces on Saturday, picking up wind speed in warm Atlantic waters after a surprisingly tame brush with the U.S. East Coast. Hurricane Danielle is (L) is seen southeast ...
Hurricane Earl doesn't pack a punch
Newsday
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General Sir Richard Dannatt reveals "perfect storm" of political incompetence and inter-service rivalries
The Daily Telegraph
General Sir Richard Dannatt's autobiography is entitled "Leading from the Front" but it also might equally be called "The Enemy Within". | Previous of Images Next Sir Richard Dannatt in the garden of his Norfolk home. Norfolk Photo: DAVID ROSE As Chi...
USA
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., center, flanked by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., left, and Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Ohio, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 30, 2010, after The House passed a massive overhaul of financial regulations.
(photo: AP / Lauren Victoria Burke)
Barney Frank faces town hall foe in primary
Boston Herald
| BOSTON — Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank’s retort was an Internet sensation. | Questioned at a town hall last year about the "Nazi policy" of health care reform, Frank told the speaker who made the comment that talking to her was "like arguing with a dining room table." Fast forward to this year, the questioner, Rachel Brown, is chall...
OPEC
OPEC Vienna Oct. 2006
(photo: Creative Commons / Gryffindor)
IEA Predicts Greater Reliance on OPEC Oil
Wall Street Journal
By RAKESH SHARMA | NEW DELHI—The global dependency on the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries for oil will rise in the next five to 10 years as production by non-OPEC nations declines, the chief of the International Energy Agency said Friday. | "We have seen an increase in non-OPEC supplies. But in the mid-term, non-O...



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