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Forty-three people died in a plane crash Tuesday night in northeast China, state-run media reported.

CNN’s iReporter caught a water spout fall out of the sky and into the ocean. I was out on my balcony cleaning in the early afternoon. I happened to look at the incoming thunderstorm and I noticed a slight funnel starting to form in the thunderstorms. A few minutes later there was a waterspout present […]

CNN is reporting that the recent flooding in Pakistan has left 1/5th of the country under water. With about one-fifth of the country underwater, almost 900,000 homes have been damaged, the agency said. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday that while he has visited sites of natural disasters around the world, he has never seen […]

A group of scholars and activists including Cornel West and Noam Chomsky are urging France to pay the billions of dollars of debt that Haiti paid them for Haitian independence. The UK Guardian reports : The open letter to the French president says the debt, now worth more than €17bn (£14bn), would cover the rebuilding […]

Via CNN.com: As over 850 out-of-control forest fires rage on just outside of Moscow, Moscovites can only pray that the first day back to work for a lucky few in the morning will mean Air Conditioning in a large office. Others will have to deal with the consequences of smoke that has been reported to […]

From MSNBC LONDON — A mother broke down in tears as she was reunited with her baby girl six months after the earthquake that devastated Haiti. “I had thought Landina was dead and when I heard she was alive I was in shock,” the eight-month-old infant’s mother, Marie Miracle Seignon, told Britain’s Channel 4 News. […]

On January 12, the earth shook here. More than 220,000 people were killed. More than 300,000 people were injured. The city and large stretches of surrounding countryside were devastated. Six months later, not much appears to have changed. It still looks like a bomb just dropped on this city.

A man carrying bags containing more than 70 dead babies has been arrested in Nigeria.

South African track star Caster Semenya was cleared for competition Tuesday by the International Association of Athletics Federations after being sidelined for nearly a year as debate raged over her gender.

Facebook’s alleged revenue for 2009 might come as a colossal relief to those managing the company’s public relations not least of all because the online giant’s reputation has remained largely unharmed by a spate of murders linked intimately to the Facebook brand name.

The sight of a baby girl suckling on the breast of her dead mother changed the course of Abebech Gobena’s life forever.

Ehlers is distributing the female condoms in the various South African cities where the World Cup soccer games are taking place.