White House Proposes $60.4 Billion for Hurricane Recovery U.S. President Barack Obama is asking Congress to approve $60.4 billion in aid to help rebuild East Coast states battered by Super Storm Sandy in late October. The spending plan was announced in... (photo: USAF / Bryan G. Stevens) Voa News Hurricane Photos US White House Wikipedia: Hurricane Sandy |
Venezuela's Chavez returns from Cuba after treatment CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez made a theatrical return home on Friday after medical treatment in Cuba, walking and joking in a first public appearance for three weeks that... (photo: AP / Ariana Cubillos) Reuters Health News Photos Politics Wikipedia: Hugo Chávez |
The World Has Spoken The UN General Assembly has now voted, by 138 votes to 9, with 41 abstentions and 5 no-shows, to recognize the existence as a state “of the State of Palestine on the Palestinian Territory occupied... (photo: UN / UN) CounterPunch Palestine Photos Territory UN Wikipedia: Palestine |
Where are world's deadliest major cities? New York City was violent-crime free for a day earlier this week, but where does the Big Apple rank in the world's deadliest major cities? • Get the data • More data journalism and data visualisations... (photo: AP / Timur Emek) The Guardian Cities Crime Photos Security Wikipedia: Crime in Venezuela World |
Vienna tops list of countries providing best quality of life in world Tweet Sydney, Dec. 4 (ANI): Austria's capital Vienna gives its residents the best quality of life of any city in the world and Baghdad is the worst, according to the latest global survey.... (photo: Creative Commons / Bauer Karl) Newstrack India Photos Security Sydney Vienna Wikipedia: Vienna World |