Update: 10 students injured as quake jolts parts of Pakistan

A tremor measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale jolted northern parts of Pakistan Friday morning, Most of the areas of Pakistan that were ravaged by an earthquake on October 8, 2005 were among the areas hit by the quake.The quake created panic among people who rushed out of...

5.7 tremor jolts Pakistan, strong quake likely in six months

As an earthquake with 5.7 magnitude jolted Pakistan's northern region Monday morning, the chief meteriologist of the country predicted that a strong is likely to hit the country during the next six...

Powerful earthquake rocks Taiwan

"A powerful 6.0-magnitude earthquake jolted Taiwan on Tuesday but there were no immediate reports of damage, casualties or tsunamis, the Seismology Centre said. The undersea tremor, which could be felt in the capital Taipei, struck at 11:16 am (0316 GMT) about 31...

Ex-Cop May Face Taser Death Charges

This is a follow up on NowPublic Member Glc3 's post found here I read this story as I would any other but what is sad are the comments left under the CBS story highlighted here. Everyone blaming others once again. I believe, and this is only my opinion, that we all need to...

Squat - Ride - Busted - Dyed!

"(CNN) -- The risk of being jolted by 1,500 volts of electricity hasn't scared them off. Neither have fears of falling off the speeding electric...

Quake sparks panic in Indonesia`s West Papua

jAKARTA (ANTARA News) - A 6.2 magnitude undersea quake jolted eastern Indonesia on Monday, damaging some houses and sparking panic among residents but causing no deaths, a meteorology agency official said. The U.S. Geological Survey placed the strong quake, shallow at only...

Vancouver: Young, poor, nowhere to live

This young man says it best " All I want to do is wake up in my own place, make a coffee" instead of waking up in an alley and going to a Mission at 10am and waiting 20 minutes for a coffee.  I am not...

Warsaw questions Mounties' conduct

This may turn out to be one of the most significant instances of citizen reportage since Rodney King:"Tens of thousands of people around the world saw a troubling record of Robert Dziekanski's final moments in a bystander's 10-minute video, which media outlets ranging from...

Three earthquakes shake Indonesia on early Thursday

Bandarlampung (ANTARA News) - The National Meteorological and Geophysics office (BMG) reported that three earthquakes shook Indonesia early Thursday, respectively in Timika (Papua Province), Tolitoli (Central Sulawesi), and Blitar (East Java). At 3.02 am Western Indonesian...

Aftershocks continue to rattle Bengkulu

"The epicenter of the first earthquake was located at 8.03 degrees southern latitude and 107.74 degrees eastern longitude, around 94 km southwest of Tasikmalaya, West Java, at a depth of 30 km, a spokesman of the national Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (BMG), Edison...

Powerful Earthquakes Rock Indonesia

"An injured man is carried on a stretcher at a makeshift hospital in Bengkulu, Sumatra island, Indonesia, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2007. A second powerful earthquake in as many days jolted Southeast Asia and triggered...

Head chopping continues: Newspaper Industry In Death Spiral?

"The East Bay newspapers operated by MediaNews Group Inc. (the private company known for buying '€œfire sale'€ papers) made a statement last week that it has eliminated jobs in several locations, with the cuts affecting every part of the publishing operation. This comes...

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