TAIPEI: Gempa berukuran 6.4 magnitud melanda selatan Taiwan awal hari ini sehingga mencetuskan panik sebahagian penduduk di pulau itu yang keluar ke kawasan lapang bagi menyelamatkan diri.
Gempa berpusat di 70 kilometer (km) dari Bandaraya Kaohsiung, lapor Pusat Penyelidikan Geologikal Amerika Syarikat (USGS).
Setakat ini tiada amaran tsunami dikeluarkan manakala belum ada laporan mengenai kerosakan serta mereka [...]
Sekurang-kurangnya 64 disahkan maut apabila satu gempa bumi sekuat 8.8 pada skala Richter menggegar tengah selatan Chile, hari ini.
Tinjauan Geologi Amerika Syarikat (AS) melaporkan, gempa bumi tersebut berlaku pada pukul 3.34 pagi waktu tempatan (2.43 petang ini waktu Malaysia), 90 kilometer dari timur laut bandar Conception pada kedalaman 35 kilometer.
AFP melaporkan sebentar tadi Pusat Amaran [...]
Gempa paling kuat yang melanda Haidi, semalam menyebabkan misi pengaman Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) di negara kepulauan itu terjejas berikutan ramai kakitangannya maut.
Setiausaha Agungnya, Ban Ki-moon, berkata gempa berukuran 7.0 magnitud itu dijangka mengakibatkan ribuan nyawa melayang dengan angka yang dijangkakan melebihi 100,000 orang.
“Ia satu tragedi kepada Haiti dan juga PBB,” katanya.
Perdana Menteri Haiti, Jean-Max [...]
Gempa berkekuatan skala 7,3 melanda kawasan kepulauan Carribean lewat malam semalam dan pihak berkuasa khuatir beribu-ribu orang terbunuh atau gagal diselamatkan.
Gegaran yang sangat kuat sehingga memusnahkan istana presiden dan beberapa bangunan penting kerajaan.
Laporan-laporan sejauh ini menyebutkan sejumlah bangunan, termasuk sebuah hospital musnah. Bangunan-bangunan awam utama yang dilaporkan musnah termasuklah bangunan parlimen, Kementerian Kewangan, Kementerian Kerjaraya, [...]
TIMBUKTU (Mali), – In early 2008, an official at the US Department of Homeland Security sent a report to his superiors detailing what he called “the most significant development in the criminal exploitation of aircraft since 9/11.”
The document warned that a growing fleet of rogue jet aircraft was regularly crisscrossing the Atlantic Ocean. On one [...]
VATICAN CITY, – Pope Benedict held a private meeting on Wednesday with the woman who knocked him to the ground on Christmas Eve and told her he had forgiven her, the Vatican said.
Susanna Maiolo, 25, an Italian-Swiss dual national, shocked the Catholic world and Vatican security when she jumped over a barricade, lunged at the [...]
PARIS, – A French parliamentary commission’s proposal to ban full Islamic veils such as the burqa and the niqab from public places has roused heated debate, and efforts to hammer out a compromise are gathering speed.
The head of the commission said on Wednesday the next step should be a law imposing the ban, but many [...]
“It seems they want the ratings!”
Those are the angry words of The Bachelor contestant Rozlyn Papa, who left the show following accusations she had an “inappropriate relationship” with a producer.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Papa flatly deniesthat she cheated on the season’s star, Jake Pavelka. Asked whether she had sex with a member of The Bachelor’s production team, Papa says, [...]
The rumors are true. The first relationship to emerge from the new season of The Bachelor, which premieres Monday (8 p.m. EST) on ABC, doesn’t involve its star, Jake Pavelka, at all.
The dating show’s host, Chris Harrison, confirmed on Monday that a male producer had a relationship with one of the female contestants during filming and that ABC had [...]
David Hasselhoff is saying goodbye to America’s Got Talent after four years as a judge with Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne.
In an exclusive statement to PEOPLE, Hasselhoff, 57, says, “I am proud that I was part of making America’s Got Talent the No. 1 rated show for the past four summers. It’s been a rewarding experience and now I’m [...]
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