Relief efforts continue

Over 116,000 are reported dead in the coastal areas of Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and other regions. As international aid begins to flow to the region, casualties caused by outbreaks of cholera, typhoid and related diseases, as well as by increasingly unsanitary conditions, threatens to push the death toll even higher.

‘Fockers’ set to meet another weekend title

With no new wide releases, last weekend’s films are set to rule U.S. and Canadian box office receipts once again.

Yushchenko claims victory in re-run

In Ukraine, the opposition candidate wins, and the Ukraine Elections commission rejects Prime Minister Yanukovych’s claims over election.

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  • Temple idols vandalized in Fulbari, Bangladesh
  • NASA shuts down Spitzer Space Telescope
  • US president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial moves to question phase
  • At least 2 dead from explosion at Houston, Texas plant
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  • New secessionist group forms in Australia
  • Temple idols vandalized in Fulbari, Bangladesh
  • NASA shuts down Spitzer Space Telescope
  • US president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial moves to question phase
  • At least 2 dead from explosion at Houston, Texas plant

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