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Compressed air turns NZ trucker into human balloon

May 26, 2011

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A New Zealand truck driver said he blew up like a balloon when he fell onto the fitting of a compressed air hose that pierced his buttock and forced air into his body at 100 pounds a square inch.Steven McCormack was standing on his truck's foot plate Saturday when he slipped and fell, breaking a compressed air hose off an air reservoir that powered the truck's brakes
Joplin tornado death toll rises to 125

May 26, 2011

JOPLIN, Missouri (AP) - Rescuers refused to be deterred from their efforts to find survivors beneath Joplin's jagged piles of tornado rubble, even as the death toll rose Wednesday to 125.No new survivors had been pulled from the city's wrecked neighborhoods, but determined crews carried on with the search, checking some areas for a fourth time since Sunday's disaster. They planned to do a fifth sw
U.S. tornado death toll mounts

May 25, 2011
Israel’s peace deal unacceptable: Palestinians

May 25, 2011

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) ― Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parameters for a peace deal, outlined in a speech to the U.S. Congress on Tuesday, fell far short of what is needed to resume negotiations, Palestinian officials said.Nabil Shaath, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said Netanyahu’s insistence on keeping key parts of the territories the Palestinians want for their
Give hotel maids panic buttons: lawmaker

May 25, 2011

The American and French flags hang over the Sofitel hotel Sunday, May 15, 2011 in New York where International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, 62, was staying Saturday and is accused of an alleged assault involving a maid. Strauss-Kahn was plucked from a first class seat on a Paris-bound Air France flight that was just about to leave the gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport abo
British police 'target Asians': report

May 25, 2011

LONDON — British police are up to 42 times more likely to use counter-terrorism powers to stop and search people of Asian origin than white people, a report said on Tuesday.Police are using a power, granted under the Terrorism Act 2000, which allows them to stop people at ports and airports for up to nine hours without the need for reasonable suspicion of involvement in a crime.More than 85,000 su
Rescuers seek survivors of U.S. tornado

May 24, 2011

Authorities fear toll could rise as full scale of destruction becomes clearJOPLIN, Missouri (AP) ― Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search for victims of a half-kilometer-wide tornado that killed at least 116 people when it blasted much of this Missouri town off the map and slammed straight into its hospital.It was the deadliest single twister in the
Obama's motorcade hits snag on Irish trip

May 24, 2011

DUBLIN (AFP) - One of Barack Obama's presidential limousines on Monday became stuck on a ramp at the US embassy in Dublin, but US officials denied the car was "The Beast" which was carrying the president at the time.Earlier, Irish state radio station RTE reported that it was Obama's heavily armoured Cadillac which had become grounded, but a Secret Service spokesman later said "it was a spare limo
German insurer starts probe into sex party allegations

May 24, 2011

BERLIN (AFP) - A German insurance firm that admitted its top salesmen took part in a sex party with prostitutes during a company junket to Budapest said Monday it was probing allegations that it was not a one-off."We are extremely sure that since 2007 there have been no other cases," Alexandra Klemme, a spokeswoman for Ergo, told AFP. As to before 2007, "we are looking into it."The company said Th
Death toll from US tornado climbs to 116

May 24, 2011

Coworkers Cindy Albers, left, and Kim Hoosier hug on 20th Street near New Hampshire Ave in Joplin, MO., Monday, May 23, 2011. A large tornado moved through much of the city Sunday, damaging a hospital and hundreds of homes and businesses and killing at least 116 people. (AP-Yonhap News)JOPLIN, Missouri (AP) _ Rescue crews dug through piles of splintered houses and crushed cars Monday in a search f
Missouri officials say tornado killed at least 89

May 23, 2011

JOPLIN, Missouri (AP) -- A massive tornado that tore through the southwest Missouri city of Joplin killed at least 89 people, but authorities warned that the death toll could climb Monday as search and rescuers continued their work at sunrise.City manager Mark Rohr announced the number of known dead at a pre-dawn news conference outside the wreckage of a hospital that took a direct hit from Sunday
Complicated problems still exist after Tent City rescue

May 23, 2011

CAMDEN, New Jersey (AP) ― The charter bus arrived on a warm day in May a year ago, and when the doors opened, close to 50 people climbed aboard. They brought with them hopes for a better future, in decent homes, free of drugs and crime and all the woes that come from living on the margins.For days, months or years, they had been living in a ragtag city of tents, tucked away in the woods near Camde
Bigger Icelandic volcano eruption, less airline angst

May 23, 2011

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) ― An Icelandic volcano flung ash, smoke and steam kilometers into the air and dropped a thick layer of gray soot in an eruption far more forceful ― but likely far less disruptive ― than the one that grounded planes across Europe last year.The country’s main airport was closed Sunday and pilots were warned to steer clear of Iceland as areas close to the Grimsvotn volcano wer
Police disperse demos in Morocco

May 23, 2011

RABAT, Morocco (AP) ― Moroccan police on Sunday spent hours chasing hundreds of pro-democracy activists through the streets of the capital in an effort to prevent any pro-reform demonstrations from taking place.Riot police armed with truncheons charged any attempts at protest gatherings, injuring some activists and hauling others off to waiting police trucks.Morocco’s Feb. 20 movement, which is ca
24 people killed as tornado strikes Missouri: local media

May 23, 2011

Death toll may rise to 100CHICAGO, (AFP) - A tornado killed 24 people Sunday in the Missouri town of Joplin, local media reported, less than a month after twisterscarved a swathe of destruction through the US southeast.The Springfield News-Leader newspaper reported that Ryan Nicholls of the Springfield-Greene County office of emergency management confirmed that 24 people were killed.Joplin, locate