Sandy humbles New York, but not for long
“The struggle between man and elements helps to define America’s character. Some day it might even define this country’s policies towards the environment.”
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International flights to Damascus are grounded as fighting intensifies in the Syrian capital.
A carefully crafted message sent by pigeon remains a mystery after government officials admit defeat and appeal for help from former code breakers.
New Yorkers are doing it for themselves. As the flood waters recede from the city’s streets, local communities are cleaning up the damage. One of Brooklyn’s best-known chefs is leading the way.
“The struggle between man and elements helps to define America’s character. Some day it might even define this country’s policies towards the environment.”
A British oil executive is shot dead in front of his wife in what appears to have been an assassination-style killing in Brussels.
Devastating factory fires in two of Pakistan’s biggest cities have killed 314 people. Many lost their lives because they could not escape the blazes in buildings without basic safety features.
Senior Taliban commanders have vowed to kidnap Prince Harry at any cost – or kill him.
Prince Harry is back in Afghanistan. He arrived at Camp Bastion in the early hours of this morning, and it is intended he will spend four months flying missions in Apache helicopters.
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales campaigns to stop the extradition of a British student to the US to face charges of copyright infringement.
Hackers groups target Justice Department website, after US officials arrest the heads of content sharing website Megaupload and shut it down.
As Wikipedia stages a blackout and people claim they will be “helpless” without it, FactCheck looks at how heavily people rely on Wikipedia? And how reliable a source it is.
A van driver is killed by a falling oak tree in Kent as high winds cause power cuts and force ports and bridges to close. A sailor has also died after his ship was struck by a large wave.
“Mr Clark told MPs that there were more than 50 occasions between May and July when fingerprint checking of non-EU nationals with visas was abandoned at Heathrow Airport. And Warnings Index checks for adults were suspended at Calais more than 100 times, MPs were told. The reason given for both of these situations was Mrs May’s old friend ‘elf and safety.”
Two hundred protesters have been arrested following a raid of the Occupy Wall Street protest camp by New York police, amid reports of a “media blackout”.
Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers went back to business as usual, however commuter services remained chaotic still in the wake of Hurricane Irene.