An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale shook northern Pakistan, just days after the country observed the anniversary of a tremor that killed over 80,000 people in Kashmir in October 2005.
The quake had its epicentre about 17 miles north of Islamabad, officials said. It was shallow at a depth of just six miles, causing strong shaking.
A volcanic plume of iron-laden ash from a 2008 Alaskan volcano eruption led to an unprecedentedly huge bloom of photosynthetic ocean plankton that fed off the ash, researchers have found.
This natural phenomenon is much like a geoengineering scenario proposed by researchers who want to fight global warming by spurring the growth of marine plants that can suck carbon dioxide from the air.
Rescue workers have evacuated nine bodies from the mud following a landslide in Bunta village in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.
A local religious leader, Rev Martinus, said the dead victims were workers of a palm oil plantation company operating in the regency.
"At least nine bodies have been unearthed. Perhaps more people were killed by the disaster as the search for victims buried in the mud is still underway," he said.
Hurricane Paula weakened to a tropical depression over Cuba on Friday, the US National Hurricane Center said.
Paula, the ninth hurricane of the busy 2010 Atlantic season, had reached Category 2 of intensity, blasting through Havana with driving rains and high winds that toppled trees and left large swathes of the city without power.
288,345 homes seized by American banks this summer, more than in any other quarter since the current crisis began.
100,000 pounds sterling paid for a pair of bottles of 64 year-old Dalmore Trinitas whisky. The only other bottle in existence will be sold at the Whisky Show later this month.
481 number of quangos and semi-independent state agencies to be abolished in the UK.
26.4 inches height of Khagendra Thapa Magar, now the world's shortest man.
TO some it might seem like a dream come true, but to the nine Londoners who perished in the Great Beer Flood of 1814, it was a pretty grim way to die.
It was around 6pm on 17 October when a giant vat full of porter was ripped apart by an explosion at Meux's Brewery in the west end. A worker had spotted that one of the metal rings that held together the enormous wooden barrel had broken, but while writing a note to his boss all hell broke loose.
Over half a million litres of beer poured out of the vat, causing a domino effect on the rest of the barrels in the brewing hall. Within minutes more than one million litres of ale, stout and porter were cascading through Tottenham Court Road and the streets of St Giles.
The flood demolished two nearby houses and poured into the Tavistock Arms, killing 14-year-old barmaid Eleanor Cooper. Eight other souls lost their lives, mostly through drowning, but one man died of alcohol poisoning after supping heartily on the free beer.
Hundreds of people ran to the scene to scoop it up in pots, with others lapping at the liquid washing through the streets.
With the courts ruling the tragedy an 'act of god', the brewer was able to claim both the insurance and the duty paid to the crown on the beer.
What The Times described as "one of the most melancholy accidents we ever remember" happened in London town 196 years ago, on this day.
The White House has issued an alert for American tourists travelling in Europe over fears of a terror attack. But the joke's on you, terrorists. We can't afford to go to Europe.
(Jimmy Fallon)
Q: What do you get when you cross a football with Robbie Keane?
A: A goal kick
(Billy)
North Korea is getting a new evil dictator. Kim Jong-Il is appointing his dim-witted son, Kim W Jong-Il
(David Letterman)
Q: What's worse than being captured by the Taliban?
A: Being rescued by the Americans.
(Sickipedia)
The Chilean miners are on their way to Leinster House. They're going to tell Brian Cowen how to get out of a big hole by Christmas
(Sickipedia)
Sex workers in Kolkata have opposed the ritual of collecting soil from their doorsteps, terming it as a "stigmatisation" of the community. The soil from the doorstep of a brothel is collected in the belief that a client "leaves behind his virtues".
Scotland's main voluntary Gaelic organisation is in a fight to stave off closure. TAIC says a decision by Bòrd na Gàidhlig to withdraw funding of £159,000 is because it is "jealous" of TAIC's success in teaching Gaelic to children in a sustainable way, pre-school.
The deputy mayor of Lodz has written an article in which he claims the Nazis did nothing wrong. Arkadiusz Karbowiak of Civic Platform made the comments in a neo-Nazi newspaper in which he also said that the Nuremberg Trials "set a dangerous precedent".
Ugandan health workers are concerned by the growing number of HIV-positive teenagers who are abandoning treatment after turning to religion. "We have noticed a trend of adolescents leaving treatment believing they had been cured in church."
Solomon Burke (70), American R&B singer-songwriter
Dame Joan Sutherland (83), Australian soprano
Claire Rayner (79), British agony aunt and journalist
Huddy Combs (33), US rapper with Harlem World, in a crash in New York city
Malcom Allison (83), ex-Man City football manager
Robert V Tishman (94), US property developer who built the World Trade Center
Angelo Infanti (69), Italian actor who played Fabrizio in The Godfather. ("In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns" was his best line)
Jim Dougal (65), former RTE northern editor
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