The New York Times: Foreign aid trickled into Haiti’s devastated capital on Thursday morning as survivors of Tuesday’s earthquake, many of them injured and homeless, woke to another morning with no electricity and dwindling water, to search for the missing
Haiti is on my mind and I am very sad today. I was in Port-au-Prince twice in 2009. When I arrived the first time and walked through the streets, the people stared at me cold. At first glance, it was
Watch CBS News Videos Online The New York Times: Calling the death toll “unimaginable” as he surveyed the wreckage, Haiti’s president, René Préval, said he had no idea where he would sleep.
[youtube WF8obw1JVg8 nolink] This is a non-profit group run by Jimmy Jean-Louis. Most of you will recognize him from his role on the television show “Heroes.” He’s also been on Fox News today with Shep. Outside of my political life,
The New York Times: Untold numbers of people in Haiti — including the head of the United Nations mission — remained missing in the rubble of collapsed buildings on Wednesday morning, a day after an earthquake ravaged this impoverished nation.
The New York Times: A powerful earthquake of 7.0 magnitude rocked Haiti just before 5 p.m. Eastern time, 10 miles southwest from the highly populated capital of Port-au-Prince, according to the United States Geological Survey, leveling a hospital and causing
Fox News: “There are some frayed nerves, but I think we’ve come through this pretty well for the magnitude of earthquake we’ve had.”
When Oscar-nominated director John Hancock made the film “Prancer” in the winter of 1988, he didn’t realize that his tale of a small-town girl (Rebecca Harrell) who believes that one of Santa’s magical reindeer has landed in her hardscrabble Indiana
The climate change conference is long gone, but with Christmas just around the corner, I figured there had to be a connection. Also, I’m writing this after a holiday party, so I’m drunk. As President Obama says, let’s be clear:
An Ethiopian Jewish woman soldier takes aim. Both men and women serve in the Israeli Defense Forces. Thus, there is a weapon in almost every Israeli home. Before our son Ariel Chaim ZT”L passed away, age twenty-two, in 2003, we
In Washington, a crisis isn’t real until it has its own budget line-item. The $3-odd trillion we’ll spend this year is, apparently, a ‘best-case’ scenario. Anything unusual happen; a hurricane, earthquake, wild-fires, or, say, a possible flu epidemic, and we’re
Quick! Think fast – who’s making the most morally conservative films in Hollywood? The answer may surprise you, but it’s none other than Judd Apatow. Yes, the writer-director of “The 40 Year Old Virgin,” “Knocked Up” and the new film
I have been trying to figure out how to work the Red Hot Chile Peppers’ (RHCP) 1999 hit, Californication, into a blog. I had known and liked the song for some time. Who doesn’t? But other than simply liking the
AP: George Clooney has toured the ruins of Italy’s recent earthquake and told the survivors he’ll shoot a film in their mountain region. The actor inspected crumbled buildings during a visit on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in L’Aquila.
President Barack Obama is now in Italy for the G-8 Summit. The President will meet with world leaders, as well as tour the damage from Italy’s recent massive earthquake.
Pope Benedict embraced the survivors of Italy’s deadly earthquake as he walked through their muddy tent camp and demanded “serious soul-searching” from those responsible for the shoddy construction blamed for many of the 296 deaths.
Pope Benedict visited some of the areas hardest hit by a recent earthquake in central Italy. Much of the region is still picking up the pieces after the strong earthquake brought down buildings and killed hundreds.
Forty people who lost their spouses in China’s devastating earthquake of last year tied the knot in Sichuan Province on Sunday, state media CCTV reported. It was the first mass wedding after last May’s earthquake.
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy CBC: A 4.9-magnitude aftershock Tuesday briefly halted the frantic search for survivors of an earthquake in central Italy, as officials announced the death toll has reached 207.
Embedded video from CNN Video AP: The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 6.3 quake’s epicenter was about 95 kilometers northeast of Rome and that its depth was about 10 km. The quake was also felt in the Italian capital.
AP: A strong earthquake struck before dawn Wednesday in impoverished southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 170 people, and turning thousands of homes of mud and timber homes into rubble.
AP: The Olympic torch reached its final stop of Chengdu, the provincial capital of Sichuan province in China on Tuesday, marking the last leg of the relay across the earthquake ravaged zone.
A strong earthquake hit China Friday in the same area as the deadly May 12 temblor. There are no reports of casualties.
AP: 22 rescuers who helped victim’s of May’s devastating earthquake helped carry the Olympic torch on Friday. The torchbearers included soldiers, firefighters, and civil servants.
DailyMail: Families are gradually returning to the area after May’s devastating earthquake-In one of the world’s most populous countries, the fact there was no elbow room in the pool was not going to stop the fun.
