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A Canadian family of four has reportedly been killed in a landslide.



The catastroph partially destroyed their house in a town about 50 kilometres west of Montreal.



A family of four was reported missing after their home collapsed.

Big Volcano erupts in south Iceland

Eyjafjallajoekull - Iceland
March 24th, 2010


A volcano at Eyjafjallajoekull in south-central Iceland continues erupting, sending lava a hundred metres high, and raising fears among Icelanders of eruptions under glaciers, which would present a danger of flooding from melt-water.


The Icelandic volcano has been dormant for 200 years!

First Same-Sex Marriage in DC

Washington (CNN.Com) -- A lesbian couple together for more than a decade smiled through tears Tuesday as they became the first same-sex couple to marry in the District of Columbia, on the first day such unions are legal in the nation's capital.

Sinjoyla Townsend and Angelisa Young said they had waited years to marry. They were first in line last week to apply for a marriage license at Washington's marriage bureau.

"You are my friend, my partner, my love," Young, 47, told Townsend, 41. "I will love you today, tomorrow and forever."

After the wedding, those present cheered as the two women embraced and cried. They have been together for 12 years and have children, according to biographical information released by the Human Rights Campaign and D.C. Clergy United for Marriage Equality.

The new law survived a Supreme Court challenge. The measure went into effect last week, but couples had to hold off until Tuesday because of the district's three-day waiting period.

Adam Curtis: How All of us Have Become Richard Nixon!

Adam Curtis is a British television documentary maker who has during the course of his television career worked as a writer, producer, director and narrator. He currently works for BBC Current Affairs. His programmes express a clear (and sometimes controversial) opinion about their subject, and he narrates the programmes himself.

After attending Sevenoaks School (a member of the 'art room' that produced musicians, Tom Greenhalgh, Kevin Lycett and Mark White of The Mekons along with Andy Gill and Jon King of the Gang of Four) Curtis studied for a BA in Human Sciences (which included introductory courses in genetics, psychology, politics, geography and elementary statistics) at the University of Oxford. Curtis taught politics there, but left for a career in television. Accoeding to wikipedia, he obtained a post on That's Life!, where he learned to find humour in serious subjects.

Curtis's intensive use of archive footage is a distinctive touch of his.

Human insanity: Looting in Chile

Police in Constitucion, Chile stop looters attempting to steal goods in the wake of Saturday's deadly earthquake.


Unbelivable footage after giant earthquake.


After Haitï, Japan, Chile, the planet earth shows anger!

First Images of the Tsunami in Hawaï

Recorded just few hours after the earthquake of Chile.


This footage from Hawaï shows a big wave tsu,ami coming..


There's no informations about victims.

SeaWorld Tragedy: The Show Must Go On?

Despite calls to free or destroy the animal, SeaWorld said Thursday it will keep the killer whale that drowned its trainer, but will suspend all orca shows while it decides whether to change the way handlers work with the behemoths.

Also, VIP visitors who occasionally were invited to pet the killer whales will no longer be allowed to do so.

"We're going to make any changes we have to to make sure this doesn't happen again," Chuck Tompkins, chief of animal training at SeaWorld parks, said a day after a 12,000-pound killer whale named Tilikum dragged a trainer into its pool and thrashed the woman to death as audience members watched in horror.

According to Yahoo News, talk-radio callers, bloggers and animal activists said Tilikum — which was involved in the deaths of two other people over the past two decades — should be released into the ocean or put to death like a dangerous dog.

Earthquake (Magnitude 8.8) and Tsunami hit Chile

A massive earthquake with an initial magnitude of 8.8 has struck central Chile. The quake struck at 06:34 GMT (3:34 a.m. local time) about 91km (56 miles) north-east of the city of Concepcion and 317km south-west of the capital, Santiago.


Buildings in Santiago were reported to have shaken for between 10 and 30 seconds, with the loss of electricity and communications.


The US issued an initial tsunami warning for Chile, Peru and Ecuador. That was later extended to Colombia, Antarctica, Panama and Costa Rica.

Japan 7.0 quake strikes off Okinawa

AFP - People in southern Japan on Saturday braced for a possible tsunami after a powerful earthquake struck the south of the country.

The 7.0-magnitude quake was measured at a depth of 22 kilometres (14 miles) and was centred 81 kilometres east-southeast of Naha in Okinawa, the USGS said.

Japan's Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning off Okinawa island, Kyodo News reported, after the quake, which was timed at 5.31 am (2031 GMT Friday).

It later downgraded the warning to an advisory.

The USGS initially reported the earthquake's magnitude at 7.3.

Kyodo, citing local police, said there were no immediate reports of any casualties.

The meteorological agency said waves around 10 centimetres (four inches) high reached land around 30 minutes after the quake, Kyodo reported.

Around 20 percent of the world's most powerful earthquakes strike Japan, which lies near the meeting place of two tectonic plates.

Geologists warn that Japan is overdue for a massive and potentially devastating earthquake.

They point to an 87 percent chance that the "Big One" -- a magnitude-eight earthquake or worse -- will strike the greater Tokyo region, home to around 35 million people, within the next 30 years.

The last time a great quake struck the city was in 1923, when the Great Kanto Earthquake claimed more than 140,000 lives, many of them in fires.

Greek Protests 2010

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