Sunday 13 October 2013
India began has begun sorting through miles of wreckage after Cyclone Phailin roared ashore, flooding towns and villages and destroying tens of thousands of thatch homes, but officials said massive evacuation efforts had spared the east coast from widespread loss of life.
India began has begun sorting through miles of wreckage after Cyclone Phailin roared ashore, flooding towns and villages and destroying tens of thousands of thatch homes, but officials said massive evacuation efforts had spared the east coast from widespread loss of life.
Choje Akong Rinpoche, who was murdered last Tuesday aged 73, was a remarkable man. He and his brother fled Tibet in 1959 under fire from Chinese troops. Yet he later persuaded China to let him back each year to help schools and other charitable projects for Tibetans. He and his brother were guests of honour at a private lunch in Aras an Uachtarain in 1998.
India was on a "war footing" last night as the most powerful cyclone in more than a decade hit its east coast, with wind, rain and waves battering the shore, prompting the evacuation of more than half a million people.
A Chinese man has amputated his own leg using nothing more than a saw and a fruit knife, after doctors told him an infection had left him just one month to live.
Strong winds and heavy rain are pounding India's eastern coastline as 420,000 people take shelter from cyclone Phailin, which is expected to reach land this evening.
RAIN and wind lashed India's east coast today, forcing about 450,000 people to flee to shelters as one of the country's largest cyclones closed in, threatening to cut a swathe of devastation through farmland and fishing hamlets.
A Chinese man has amputated his own leg using nothing more than a saw and a fruit knife, after doctors told him an infection had left him just one month to live.
INDIA'S east coast braced today for a cyclone covering half the size of the country, with tens of thousands of residents in low-lying areas fleeing their homes after authorities forecast a risk to life and extensive damage.
The mother of jailed U.S. missionary Kenneth Bae has arrived in North Korea to visit her ailing son, who was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in May on charges of state subversion, his family said on Thursday.
A Farmer in China cut off his own infected leg after a hospital gave him one month to live.
A CYCLONE heading towards India's southeast coast intensified on Thursday, disaster management and weather officials said, warning tens of thousands of farmers to save their crops before the storm reaches land in the next 72 hours.
Critics have long viewed Azerbaijan's elections as predetermined, but the country appears to have gone a step further this year by publishing results before the polls had even opened.
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