The cyclone’s official death toll has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the devastating storm, state television reported Friday.
The cyclone’s official death toll has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the devastating storm, state television reported Friday.
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May 15, 2008
The tax agency says human error and computer glitches were responsible for the problem
A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Missouri woman for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor girl who then committed suicide.
In a monumental victory for the gay rights movement, the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex couples in the nation’s biggest state to tie the knot.
More than 72 hours after the quake rattled central China, rescuers appeared to shift from poring through downed buildings for survivors to the grim duty of searching for bodies - with 10 million directly affected by Monday’s temblor.
A 48-year-old extreme sports enthusiast has taken human flight to a new level by strapping on a pair of jet-powered wings and performing figure eights above the Swiss Alps. He plans to cross the English Channel later this year.
Schools that had been closed for two days reopened Thursday, electricity was being restored and many residents had already returned to the area where about 20 homes were destroyed and 140 structures damaged.
May 14, 2008
The Feline-ality program wasdeveloped by behaviorist Dr. Emily Weiss of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
A man punched a sheriff’s deputy and tried to grab the officer’s handgun from its holster after a judge in Battle Creek convicted him of murder in the killings of his wife and son.
Emergency food shipments are backing up at the main airport in Myanmar. Relief workers reported some storm survivors were being given spoiled food, adding to fears that the ruling military junta could be misappropriating assistance.
New York police are looking for a suspect who they say robs banks wearing various disguises. They say he’s been terrorizing bank tellers since 2006.
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