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At least 91 dead as massive tornado strikes Oklahoma city

Flipped vehicles are piled up outside the heavily damaged Moore Medical Center after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. AFP

A powerful tornado swept through an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday, tearing down blocks of homes, two schools and leaving at least 91 people dead, including 20 children, local officials said.

Posted: May 21st, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

Tornado hits Oklahoma City suburb

A child is pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Oklahoma, and passed along to rescuers Monday, May 20, 2013. A tornado as much as two miles wide with winds up to 200 mph (320 kph) roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods, setting buildings on fire and landing a direct blow on an elementary school.  AP PHOTO SUE OGROCKI

A powerful tornado with winds of up to 200 miles (320 kilometers) per hour pulverized an Oklahoma City suburb Monday, hitting at least two schools and wiping out block after block of homes.

Posted: May 21st, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

Gay man’s killing in NYC leads to police increase

Pedestrians pass a makeshift memorial for 32-year-old Mark Carson, Monday, May 20, 2013, in New York. Police said Elliot Morales yelled anti-gay slurs before shooting Carson point-blank in the face in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood long known as a bedrock of the gay rights movement. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

A number of anti-gay attacks in New York City is prompting police to increase their presence in some gay-friendly neighborhoods just before Gay Pride Month in June.

Posted: May 21st, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

Protest rally planned after gay man murdered in Manhattan

Pedestrians pass a makeshift memorial for 32-year-old Mark Carson, Monday, May 20, 2013, in New York. Police said Elliot Morales yelled anti-gay slurs before shooting Carson point-blank in the face in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood long known as a bedrock of the gay rights movement. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

New Yorkers—including mayoral candidate Christine Quinn—planned a rally Monday to protest the shooting death of a gay man in the neighborhood that was the cradle of the modern US gay rights movement.

Posted: May 21st, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

Obama hosts Myanmar leader in symbolic White House visit

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Myanmar's President Thein Sein at the end of their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013. Thein Sein is the first Myanmar president to be welcomed to the White House in almost 47 years.  AP PHOTO/JACQUELYN MARTIN

Myanmar President Thein Sein on Monday became the first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century, as Washington offers a strong symbolic gesture to back his reforms.

Posted: May 21st, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

Winner of $590M US lotto jackpot remains a mystery

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Life definitely has gotten a lot sunnier for one lucky lottery player in this Sunshine State.

Posted: May 21st, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

More bodies recovered in collapsed Indonesia mine

In this photo released by PT Freeport Indonesia, the Indonesian unit of Arizona-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc, rescuers gather inside a tunnel that collapsed on Tuesday morning as they continue the attempt to rescue trapped workers at Big Gossan mining area in Mimika, Papua province, Indonesia, Sunday, May 19, 2013. AP Photo/PT Freeport Indonesia

Rescuers recovered four more bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant US-owned gold and copper mine in Indonesia, bringing the confirmed death toll to 13, police said Monday. Fifteen other workers were still missing and feared dead.

Posted: May 20th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

US kidnap suspect to plead innocent—lawyer

This undated file photo provided by Cuyahoga County Jail shows Ariel Castro. Cleveland officials are trying to keep Castro's house, where three women were imprisoned for a decade, intact until his trial is concluded. AP photo

The man accused of holding three young US women captive for around a decade in a house in Cleveland will plead innocent to charges of rape and kidnapping, one of his lawyers said Wednesday.

Posted: May 15th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

US faces cicada invasion, millions poised to emerge

This photo provided by the University of Connecticut, shows a cicada in Pipestem State Park in West Virginia on May 27, 2003. Any day now, cicadas with bulging red eyes will creep out of the ground after 17 years and overrun the East Coast with the awesome power of numbers.  AP PHOTO/UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT, CHIRS SIMON

The hordes are rising. A cicada invasion is imminent in the United States, with millions of the large cricket-like insects poised to emerge from the earth after 17 years lying in wait.

Posted: May 15th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

South Korea president apologizes for sex assault scandal

Park Geun-hye AP FILE PHOTO

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye personally apologized Monday for an “unsavory” incident during her US summit visit that led to the dismissal of her chief spokesman.

Posted: May 13th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

19 hurt at New Orleans parade shooting—police

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Nineteen people were hurt in a shooting at a Mother’s Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday, police said as the US city’s mayor vowed to find those responsible.

Posted: May 13th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

Victims in US kidnap case won’t give interviews yet

Photos show Amanda Berry (L) and Georgina DeJesus (R), both who went missing as teenagers about a decade ago and were found alive May 6  in a residential area of Cleveland, Ohio, not far from where they were last seen. A third woman, Michelle Knight, was also found in the same house.  AFP/FBI

The three US women freed after a 10-year ordeal of beatings and rape by their kidnapper said Sunday they will not give any interviews until after the criminal proceedings are completed.

Posted: May 12th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

US kidnap suspect’s brothers swear they were unaware

Ariel Castro AFP PHOTO

The brothers of the US man charged with kidnapping and raping three women, locking them in his home for a decade, said they had no idea what was happening, in an interview aired in part on Sunday.

Posted: May 12th, 2013 in Latest News Stories,World | Read More »

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