PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) – A huge quake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti Tuesday toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP witnesses said. A tsunami alert was immediately issued for the Caribbean region after the earthquake struck at 4:53 pm local time. An AFP correspondent said the ground [...]
National and International press are claiming that Nigeria President Umaru Yar’Adua is suffering brain damage as a result for a heart condition treatment. Senior members of Nigeria’s political elite will hold emergency talks on today Monday after President Umaru Yar’Adua was reported to be “seriously ill” following medical treatment in Saudi Arabia last year (November), [...]
James von Brunn the Holocaust museum shooter has died before facing trial for the murder of the officer Tyrone Johns and attempt of murder of visitors & staff. Sadly, he didn’t live long enough to be found him guilty of the crime he committed. That in itself is a crying shame. He is the man [...]
93-year old Tsutomu Yamaguchi was already recognized as a hibakusha (explosion-affected person) of the August 9 Nagasaki bombing, but on March 24, 2009 the government of Japan officially certified that he had also been in Hiroshima on a business trip during the first atomic bombing. He is the first survivor of both the Nagasaki and [...]