Category: World News
Mother, son killed hours apart in road crashes
A son rushing to hospital to see his mother after she was hit by a car and died was killed in a separate road accident. Mary Moore, 45, died after being hit by a car in the US state of Wisconsin at 1am on Sunday morning local time. Her son Thomas Olson, 22, heard of [...]
6.4-magnitude earthquake strikes off Tonga
A STRONG 6.4-magnitude earthquake has struck off the Pacific nation of Tonga, US seismologists said today. There are no immediate reports of damage and no tsunami warning has been issued. The quake happened at 11.08pm (8.08pm AEST) 78 kilometres from the town of Neiafu, on the south coast of the island Vava’u, at a depth [...]
Accused boyfriend said Kiwi teen was ‘going down tonight’, court told
The man accused of killing Emily Longley told a friend “she’s going down tonight”, a British court has heard. Elliot Turner, 20, is alleged to have killed 17-year-old Longley, an aspiring model who went to secondary school in Auckland, in a jealous rage at his parents’ home in Bournemouth before they allegedly helped him cover [...]
Obama to launch re-election campaign next week
US President Barack Obama will hold the first official campaign rallies of his re-election bid on May 5 in the crucial battleground states of Ohio and Virginia. The rallies will take place almost six months to the day before Obama asks voters to give him a second term despite the still stuttering US economic recovery. [...]
Wealthy children live at home for longer
YOUNG adults from disadvantaged backgrounds are much more likely to have moved out of home by age 20 than their more privileged peers and to be disengaged from education and employment, a study shows. More than one-third of 20-year-olds from families with a long history of welfare dependence live independently of their parents. In contrast, [...]
Carer jailed after nursing home abuse filmed
An English nursing home carer has been jailed for assaulting an elderly patient with Alzheimer’s after being secretly filmed by his victim’s daughter. Jane Worroll installed a hidden camera at London’s private care home Ash Court in June last year after noticing suspicious bruises on her 82-year-old mother’s arms, Daily Mail reports. When she later [...]
China and Russia start first navy drills
China and Russia on Sunday launched their first joint naval exercises, state media said, amid tensions between China and its Asian neighbours over regional territorial claims. The six days of drills are talking place in the Yellow Sea off China’s east coast, the official China News Service said, adding these were the first exercises involving [...]
127 dead as plane struck by lightning
A PAKISTANI airliner carrying 127 people crashed and burst into flames as it tried to land in Islamabad during a thunderstorm Friday, apparently killing all aboard. “There is no chance of any survivors. It will be only a miracle. The plane is totally destroyed,” police officer Fazle Akbar told AFP from the crash site near [...]
Retired couple win share of mega $656m lottery
A retired southern Illinois couple claimed the third and final share of last month’s record $US656 million Mega Millions jackpot on Wednesday, and said they plan to treat themselves — possibly even to a holiday — once they’ve sorted out how to invest their windfall. Merle and Patricia Butler bought a $3 quick-pick ticket to [...]
Warning as another Mac virus discovered
THERE’S more bad news for Mac users. An online security company has found another virus that has been infecting the Apple computers via a Java plug-in, spreading across computers when people open email messages with links directing them to malware. The virus is the second to be discovered in a week, after news earlier that [...]
6.8 earthquake off Papua New Guinea
A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake has struck off the coast of eastern Papua New Guinea, Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology says. The undersea quake happened at 5.13pm local time (7.13pm, New Zealand time). The United States Geological Survey initially measured the quake as magnitude 7 and said it was centred 440km north of PNG’s capital, Port [...]
Moderate earthquake off Sumatra
A 6.4-MAGNITUDE earthquake has struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island, with no reports of damage and no tsunami alert. “The epicentre is in the sea and there is no tsunami warning because at less than 7.0 magnitude it is still considered moderate,” said Arif Nurahim, an official at Indonesia’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency. [...]
Aceh sees disasters as sign of God’s wrath
WHEN pentecostal pastor Danny Nalliah thundered that the 2009 Victorian bushfires were caused by God’s wrath at that state’s decision to decriminalise abortion, he was an outlier even among radical Christians. But in Aceh, Indonesia’s most devout province (and its most disaster prone), it’s not just common but mainstream to believe that Wednesday’s terrifying earthquake, [...]
Rocket failure raises fear of nuclear test
THE failure of North Korea’s rocket launch has raised concerns Pyongyang’s untried young leader will order an underground nuclear test, further provoking tensions on the Korean peninsula, to ease the embarrassment of yesterday’s abortive mission. The launch of the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite, via a towering long-range rocket, was meant to mark the centenary of Great Leader [...]
Indonesians feel lucky after quake
Residents surveying damage from two powerful earthquakes that awoke memories of the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami say they could hardly believe their luck. Five people died from heart attacks in Indonesia’s westernmost province of Aceh – closest to the epicentre of Wednesday’s temblors – and several others were injured as they tried to flee [...]
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