Typhoon Parma caused widespread flooding and landslides that buried at least two families in the Philippines, then hung threateningly off the coast Sunday drenching the country's north as well as Taiwan. At least 16 people died when Parma hit the main ...Read More
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The fugitive Islamic militant killed by Indonesian security forces traveled to Indonesia from the Philippines within the last few months, police officals said on Wednesday, an admission that raised concerns about the country's ability to keep known ...Read More
Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average was off 0.29 percent to 10,555. Shanghai's composite index eased 0.42 percent to 3,040. South Korea's Kospi slipped 0.35 percent to 1,654, while Australia's market added 0.05 percent to 4,810. Singapore's market rose slightly as those in ...Read More
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - Thailand's Kiradech Aphibarnrat held a one-shot lead after an unfinished second round at the rain-interrupted Malaysian Open on Friday after chipping in for a sensational eagle. The former world junior champion completed 14 holes of his ...Read More
Residents are using hoes to lift the mud and search for survivors
Uganda's Red Cross has launched an appeal to help survivors of mudslides which swept away three villages near the eastern town of Bududa.
More than 80 bodies have been ...Read More
During heavy rains, village elders told schoolchildren to seek shelter in the hospital. That sanctuary turned into a death trap as a landslide engulfed the building, leaving more than 50 pupils missing and among hundreds feared dead as avalanches of ...Read More
NAMETSI, Uganda (AP) - During heavy rains, village elders told schoolchildren to seek shelter in the hospital. That sanctuary turned into a death trap as a landslide engulfed the building, leaving more than 50 pupils missing and among hundreds feared ...Read More
NAMETSI, Uganda (Reuters) - Soldiers and villagers in eastern Uganda hacked at mounds of thick mud with picks and hoes on Wednesday in a desperate bid to find more survivors from a landslide that killed at least 80 people.
Waves of ...Read More
More than 300 people are feared dead after heavy rain caused a series of landslides in the mountainous eastern region of Bududa in Uganda. Minister for Disaster Preparedness Musa Ecweru has gone to the area to assess what help is needed. Rescuers ...Read More
BUDUDA, Uganda (AFP) – Rescuers clawed through mud in driving rain Wednesday in a desperate bid to find survivors from a huge landslide feared to have killed hundreds in villages in eastern Uganda.
At least 80 bodies have already been found ...Read More
Rescuers search for survivors and victims of a landslide in Nametsi Village in Bududa District, eastern Uganda, on March 2, 2010. Rescue workers recovered 55 bodies as of noon on Tuesday after the Monday night mudslide covering an area ...Read More
The death toll in a landslide in eastern Uganda has risen to 55, as the search and rescue efforts for hundreds of missing continues.
Head of Uganda's Red Cross, Michael Nataka, said Tuesday that the landslide has buried three villages in ...Read More
KAMPALA (AFP) – A landslide triggered by torrential rain has buried entire villages and left more than 300 people missing in eastern Uganda, where at least 55 people have been killed.
Rescue workers began pulling bodies from the mud after the ...Read More
More than 100 people have been killed in a landslide in the mountainous eastern region of Bududa in Uganda, a minister has told the BBC.
Minister for Disaster Preparedness Musa Ecweru has gone to the area to assess what help is ...Read More
That iPhone you adore may have been built by a child.
Nearly a dozen underage teens were working for Apple-contracted facilities in 2009, the company has revealed. The news was posted to Apple's Web site under a section labeled "Supplier Responsibility."
The ...Read More
After a four-day march, Marines and Afghan troops who fought through the center of Marja linked up with a U.S. Army Stryker battalion on the town's northern edge. The hookup means the operation is somewhere between the clear and hold ...Read More
The 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck off coastal Chile in the early hours of the morning is one of the biggest temblors anywhere in more than a century. Data from the U.S. Geological Survey suggests that this morning's Chile quake tied ...Read More
CIWIDEY, Indonesia -- A tea plantation owner may have helped cause a landslide that killed up to 45 people in central Indonesia by cutting down too many trees, a Cabinet minister said Thursday.
Welfare Minister Agung Laksono said the government would ...Read More
JAKARTA, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers have found 17 dead bodies after the landslide in West Java of Indonesia on Tuesday morning, and struggled to find 26 others predicted to be buried under the rabbles, Head of National Disaster Management ...Read More
CIWIDEY, Indonesia (AP) - Rescuers used heavy digging equipment Wednesday to move tons of dislodged clay strewn with splintered remnants of upended houses after a mudslide on Indonesia's main island of Java buried dozens, leaving at least 46 dead or ...Read More
CIWIDEY, Indonesia (AFP) – Hopes faded Wednesday for up to 70 people buried by a landslide that killed at least 16 in Indonesia, as more rain and fears of fresh slippages forced rescuers to suspend their search.
Stunned villagers stood by ...Read More
