Reports emerging from the Indonesian island of Sumatra suggest more than 1,000 people are feared dead and thousands more are trapped under rubble after last night’s devastating earthquake.
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The first plane carrying survivors of the tsunamis in Samoa touched down in Sydney last night, bringing reports of fear and horror.
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As the roll-back of the boosted first home owners grant begins, economists say it has helped construction, but may have made houses less affordable.
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Teenage Queensland sailor Jessica Watson has left the Gold Coast on board a yacht she is planning to sail solo around the world in.
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A Bangladeshi farmer who killed more than 80,000 rodents this year has won a colour television as he was crowned the country’s 2009 champion rat killer, officials said.
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Australia qualified for the Champions Trophy semi-finals overnight with a thrilling two-wicket win over Pakistan at SuperSport Park, thanks to a last-ball bye.
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At least 75 people have been killed and thousands more trapped under flattened buildings in a powerful earthquake off Sumatra island on Wednesday, Indonesian officials said.
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Disaster officials rushed food, medicine and a temporary morgue to the Samoas on Wednesday after a powerful earthquake unleashed a tsunami that flattened villages.
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Many people who’ve died from swine flu also have been infected with pneumonia bacteria, underscoring the need for vaccination against that bug, too, federal health officials said.
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Closing schools and day care centers because of swine flu could cost between $10 billion and $47 billion, a report by the Brookings Institution think tank found.
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The mayor, the president and Oprah Winfrey may hope to return to Chicago from Copenhagen with the 2016 Olympic Games, but some around town hope the International Olympic Committee deems the Second City the second city.
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A surprise drop in a key regional economic indicator sent stocks reeling Wednesday, with the Dow Jones industrials sliding more than 70 points.
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Authorities inspect a jet at Logan International Airport in Boston after a note saying “bomb on board” was found in a plane bathroom.
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Joseph S. Nye Jr., who pioneered the theory of soft power, says while he doesn’t expect any major breakthroughs from the U.S.-Iran talks, Washington nonetheless has a responsibility to push Iran to come clean. CFR.org reports.
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A magnitude 5.9 quake struck in southeastern Peru on Wednesday, close to Bolivia’s capital of La Paz, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
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American and Iranian diplomats may hold rare face-to-face negotiations at a meeting Thursday on Iran’s nuclear program, a senior U.S. official says.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake, which struck near the city of Padang on Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Wednesday, has killed between 100 and 200 people, a disaster agency official said early on Thursday morning.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court revived the legal battle over gun rights in America, saying it would decide whether the constitutional right of individuals to own firearms trumped state and local laws.
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Reuters – A powerful earthquake, which struck near the city of Padang on Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Wednesday, has killed between 100 and 200 people, a disaster agency official said early on Thursday morning.
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Reuters – The U.S. Supreme Court revived the legal battle over gun rights in America, saying it would decide whether the constitutional right of individuals to own firearms trumped state and local laws.
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Reuters – President Barack Obama’s drive to fight global warming got a boost on Wednesday as Democrats in the U.S. Senate unveiled a bill aimed at slashing greenhouse gas emissions in the next four decades.
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Reuters – President Barack Obama announced a plan on Wednesday to spend $5 billion on medical and scientific research, medical supplies and upgrading laboratory capacity, which he said would create tens of thousands of new jobs.
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Reuters – Top Obama administration officials on Wednesday said recent arrests in alleged bombing plots highlight the challenges they face combating “self-radicalized, homegrown extremists” as well as foreigners in the United States determined to carry out attacks.
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Reuters – The United Nations on Wednesday dismissed the top U.S. diplomat at the U.N. mission in Afghanistan after he quarreled with his European boss over the Afghan presidential election.
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Reuters – The U.S. Supreme Court said on Wednesday it would hear an Obama administration appeal defending part of the Patriot Act, which has been criticized by civil liberties groups for giving the government broad powers.
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