Red Cross overwhelmed by public response to tsunami disaster GENEVA (AFP) – The international Red Cross opened a special website to cope with an overwhelming number of donations from the general public for victims of the tidal waves in the Indian Ocean. Red Cross overwhelmed
Tsunami Death Toll Jumps Over 120,000 By Tomi Soetjipto and Dean Yates BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) – The mercilessness of Asia’s tsunami grew clearer on Thursday as worst-hit Indonesia sharply raised its death toll, taking the number of fatalities around the whole Indian Ocean region above 120,000. Health Ministry sources told Reuters just under 80,000 [...]
Unspeakable loss Death toll reaches 100,000 The death toll in the tsunami disaster soared past 100,000 today – and is set to climb higher. A total of 50 Britons are now confirmed dead and at least 100 are unaccounted for after tidal waves swept away resorts in Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and around the Indian [...]
More than 9,300 people across Asia were killed today after one of the most powerful earthquakes on record triggered massive tidal waves that slammed into coastlines in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, India, Thailand and Malaysia. Scotsman.com News
Mobile phone users have been advised to use a landline whenever possible after researchers claimed that mobiles can damage DNA. In a four-year study, German researchers exposed human tissue to low-power microwaves, which are emitted by mobile phones, and found that the radiation caused damage to the DNA within the cells, which were kept in [...]
The family of a U.S. Marine killed in Iraq was denied access to the soldier’s Yahoo e-mail account due to the company’s policies, raising questions of whether businesses should balance privacy with special requests. The Marine, Justin Ellsworth, 20, was killed in November by a roadside bomb in Falluja while assisting civilian evacuations before the [...]
‘Urinating’ Deputy Resigns Brown Says Media Attention Hurt His Case ORLANDO, Fla. — A uniformed Orange County sheriff’s deputy who was caught on a security camera urinating in a building’s elevator resigned Monday, the same day a hearing was scheduled on the appeal of his firing. local6.com
US to assign military to Taipei office REVERSAL: Active-duty military officers will be assigned to AIT, taking over from contractors and marking a departure from previous US policy In a reversal of its long-standing policy, the US will post military officers to its mission in Taipei for the first time since 1979, leading defense journal [...]
My name is Ellen Simonetti, but I am better known to Web surfers as the Queen of Sky. I had been a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines for almost eight years when I started my blog, or online diary, in January of this year. I entitled it ‘Diary of a Flight Attendant.’ On Saturday, [...]
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