Air France jet with 228 aboard missing over the Atlantic Ocean, Brazil mounts searchSAO PAULO, Brazil — An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris lost contact with air traffic controllers over the Atlantic Ocean, officials said Monday. Brazil began a search mission off its northeastern coast. Air France jet with 228 aboard missing over the Atlantic Ocean, Brazil mounts searchSAO PAULO, Brazil — An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris lost contact with air traffic controllers over the Atlantic Ocean, an Air France official said Monday. Brazil immediately began a search mission off its northeastern coast. Air France jet with 228 aboard missing over the Atlantic Ocean, Brazil mounts searchSAO PAULO, Brazil — An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris lost contact with air traffic controllers over the Atlantic Ocean, an Air France official said Monday. Brazil immediately began a search mission off its northeastern coast. Air France jet with 228 aboard missing over the Atlantic Ocean, Brazil mounts searchSAO PAULO, Brazil — An Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris lost contact with air traffic controllers over the Atlantic Ocean, an Air France official said Monday. Brazil immediately began a search mission off its northeastern coast. Millvina Dean, last survivor of the 1912 sinking of the “unsinkable” Titanic, has died at 97LONDON — Millvina Dean was the youngest passenger on RMS Titanic, just nine weeks old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered from the sinking ship into a lifeboat bobbing on the frigid North Atlantic. Friend says Millvina Dean, last survivor of the sinking of the Titanic, has died aged 97LONDON — Millvina Dean, the last survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic, died Sunday in her sleep, her friend Gunter Babler said. She was 97. AP IMPACT: More foreclosures in hurricane-prone communities mean more danger if storm strikesLEHIGH ACRES, Fla. — Mike Manikchand points toward his neighbors — a half-dozen empty, foreclosed-upon homes, sitting on weed-strewn yards — and he wonders: What will happen if a hurricane slams into southwest Florida this year? Brit, Canadian Tamils vow to sustain Ealam struggleLONDON/OTTAWA - Large Tamil communities in Britain and Canada have vowed to continue the struggle for Tamil self-determination rights in Sri Lanka following the death of LTTE chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran. Endangered right whales found where there were noneWASHINGTON - Scientists have documented the presence of endangered North Atlantic right whales with the help of underwater hydrophones that can pick up sounds from hundreds of kilometres away. From Frisch to Harnisch, Fordham baseball a winning tradition for 150 years and countingNEW YORK — Danny Leach and his Fordham University baseball teammates congratulated each other with hearty high fives after a recent victory, the latest addition to an impressive tally that began 150 years ago. Brazil floods diminish, but 267,000 still homeless; Death toll reduced to 39SAO PAULO — Thousands of Brazilians returned home Tuesday following devastating floods but water kept on rising in some places and civil defense officials used helicopters, trucks and boats to deliver aid to victims in isolated communities. Brazil uses boats, helicopters, trucks to tote food and water to flood victims; death toll 32SAO PAULO — Brazil rushed aid Wednesday by air, over land and through rapidly rising waters to dozens of cities and towns isolated by floods that have killed at least 32 people and left more than 200,000 homeless. Heavy rains, floods force 186,000 to flee their homes in northern Brazil; at least 19 deadSAO PAULO — Floods and mudslides from months of heavy rains in northern Brazil have driven more than 186,000 from their homes, killed at least 19 people and cut off shipments from a huge Amazon iron mine, officials said Tuesday. Kate Moss pens ‘no-holds-barred’ autobiographyLONDON - British supermodel Kate Moss is writing an autobiography and businessman Richard Branson has agreed to publish. US Attorney General Holder says 30 current Guantanamo detainees approved for releaseBERLIN — About 30 detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay have been cleared for release, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday as he tried to persuade European allies to take some of them. US Airways 1Q loss shrinks with help from improving fuel hedgesMINNEAPOLIS — US Airways said its first-quarter loss shrank as some of its old fuel hedging contracts turned positive. Longer willies aren’t always better for male barnaclesLONDON - A longer willy doesn’t ensure successful fertilisation, at least in case of male barnacles- the hermaphroditic filter-feeders, according to a new study. ‘Cornered’ Pak gets uppity over ‘intrusive’ US conditions in new AFPAK policyWASHINGTON - Pakistan has expressed its unhappiness over the ’stringed’ US aid, terming the conditions put under the new AFPAK policy as ‘intrusive’. George Harrison’s sister shares Beatles family pictures and US debutLONDON - George Harrison’s elder sister Louise has for the first time shared some of the rare family pictures with ‘The Beatles’, and revealed the role she played in the Fab Four’s big American break. Albania, Croatia formally join NATOWASHINGTON - Albania and Croatia have formally joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the US State Department said in a statement Wednesday. Israel could strike Iran if US does not rein in its nuke ambitions: NetanyahuWASHINGTON - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that if US President Obama doesn’t act to stop Iran developing a nuclear weapon, the Israelis may be forced to attack Iran. ‘Halo effect’ causes formation of unusually bright patches of skyLONDON - A new research has shown that unusually bright patches of sky, observed up to several kilometers away from clouds, are a result of the ‘halo effect’, which is light reflected off the cloud and bouncing off the particles in the air. Woes and wins for NATO as it turns 60BRUSSELS - Heads of state and government from the member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) gather in Strasbourg April 3-4 to mark their alliance’s 60th anniversary. But despite the fanfare, they will have few reasons to celebrate. Iran invited to regional security conferenceLONDON - Iran is to be invited to join a South Asian regional security conference centred on Afghanistan, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Friday. Pakistan must take responsibility for fighting terrorists: Gordon BrownLONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Thursday the continued presence of Al Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan requires Islamabad to take primary responsibility for fighting them. |
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