Red Cross
Helicopter cameraman caught enormity of tornado's damage
Brian Stelter As a massive tornado tore through Moore, Oklahoma, on Monday afternoon, a news helicopter belonging to KFOR, the NBC-affiliated television station nearby, tracked it the whole time, providing a...
Atrocity claims as Syrians bar Red Cross
Peter Beaumont, Mona Mahmoud Syrian authorities have blocked the Red Cross from entering the Baba Amr district of Homs, where civilians have endured days of fierce fighting, amid reports that soldiers and armed gangs have been...
Captive Red Cross worker killed in 'barbaric act'
The body of a British Red Cross worker held captive in Pakistan since January has been found in an orchard, his throat slit and a note attached to his body saying he was killed because no ransom was...
Live blog: Massive tornado strikes Oklahoma City
Megan Levy A huge tornado up to three kilometres wide has flattened entire neighbourhoods, set buildings on fire and landed a direct blow on a primary school in Oklahoma City.
Afghans captive to murky ADF protocols
David Wroe and Deborah Snow As Australia gradually winds down in Afghan the challenge of war will only get harder.
Skirmish during Guantanamo raid
Charlie Savage At the start of a pre-dawn raid by guards on Saturday, detainees wielding broomsticks hit two guards on their helmets during a brief melee.
Into the smoke: cowboy hero raced to save lives
He literally seared with pain upon losing his son in the Iraq war, setting himself ablaze. His life is now one long act of mourning and homage, and watching the Boston Marathon was another chapter
'Like a nuclear bomb': fertiliser plant explodes in Texas
Rescue workers are searching rubble for survivors of a fertiliser factory explosion in a small Texas town that has killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160 others.
156 dead, thousands injured in China quake
A powerful earthquake struck the steep hills of China's southwestern Sichuan province on Saturday, leaving at least 156 people dead and more than 5,500 injured, nearly five years after a devastating...
China quake death toll hits 186 with thousands left homeless
Gillian Wong Rescuers struggled to rush supplies into the rural hills of China's Sichuan province after an earthquake left at least 186 people dead, more than 11,800 injured and caused frightened survivors to...
North Korea cuts military hotline with South
North Korea says it is cutting a military hotline with South Korea, meaning that all direct inter-government and military contact has been suspended after it previously cut a Red Cross link.
Berlusconi's fiancee polishes first-lady image
Andrea Vogt Bologna SILVIO Berlusconi's 27-year-old fiancee is being groomed for what the former Italian prime minister hopes will be her ascent to ''first lady'' as he plots an audacious return to the front line of...
Syria: the powder keg next door
Sally Williams Thousands of ordinary Syrians fleeing Assad's brutality have been welcomed in Jordan. But these good Samaritans are fast running out of patience - and room.
Clean-up begins after Evan devastates Fiji
Auckland State of natural disaster has been declared for parts of Fiji as the clean-up from Cyclone Evan begins.
Fiji declared a disaster zone after cyclone cuts power, water
AUCKLAND: A state of natural disaster has been declared for parts of Fiji as the clean-up from cyclone Evan begins.
At least 39 dead after tribal raid in Kenya
NAIROBI: At least 39 people have been killed in an attack on a village in a remote part of south-eastern Kenya's coastal region, where deadly tribal violence erupted this year.
Congo rebels begin pullout from Goma
Congolese rebels say they are starting to pull out from the eastern city of Goma as the United Nations issued a new call for an end to foreign support for the fighters to prevent the conflict...
Rebels seize more ground but stall at Turkish border
DAMASCUS: Syria’s rebels have reportedly seized new territory in the eastern Euphrates valley from government forces but have run into resistance from Kurdish militia on the Turkish border in a...
Rebels seize more ground but stall at Turkish border
DAMASCUS: Syria's rebels have reportedly seized new territory in the eastern Euphrates valley from government forces but have run into resistance from Kurdish militia on the Turkish border in a...
Philippines divided over US return to Subic Bay
Lindsay Murdoch The anti-child sex crusading priest Shay Cullen plans to mobilise Filipinos to protest against the return of United States forces to the former home of the US 7th Fleet at Subic Bay, north of Manila,...
