World News
 Prime Minister arrives to survey damage in Christchurch
The St Petersburg News.Net
Christchurch residents are taking stock of the damage to their city following the major earthquake that struck in the early hours of Saturday morning with local officials calling the lack of fatalities a miracle.
 Mexican shootout kills dozens of people
The St Petersburg News.Net
25 or more people have died in a gunfight between Mexican soldiers and suspected drug gang members near the northern Mexican city of Monterrey.
Nine killed in New Zealand tourist spot plane crash
West Australian
WELLINGTON, Sept 4, 2010 (AFP) - - Nine people, including four foreigners, were killed when a skydiving plane crashed and burst into flames at a popular New Zealand tourist spot Saturday, officials sa...
Australian among dead in NZ plane crash
West Australian
An 18-year-old Victorian man has died in a plane crash on Fox Glacier, on New Zealand's South Island, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has confirmed.The skydiving aircraft crashed while try...
Irish tourist dies in New Zealand plane crash
RTE
An Irish tourist is among nine people who have been killed in a plane crash in New Zealand. The accident happened at Fox Glacier Airport on the west coast of the country's South Island. The fixed-wi...
Zsa Zsa hubby 'stiff' rebuke
New York Post
Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband vehemently denied reports yesterday that he would have the star's body preserved by plastination after her death. Prince Frederic von Anhalt talked to reporters outside his Cal...
New Zealand earthquake opens door to looters
New York Post
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- A 7.4-magnitude earthquake damaged much of New Zealand's South Island early yesterday, but by evening there had been just two reports of serious injury -- including a person...
Hill's sense of urgency
New York Post
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to inject urgency into Israeli-Palestinian peace talks yesterday, warning that the negotiations may be "the last chance for a very long t...
DC crystal 'cheat' sues for pay
New York Post
WASHINGTON -- The DC interior designer charged with committing fraud to get a $1.3 million homeland-security contract sued the feds to try to collect $130,000 under the very same contract, court docum...
Prez is on the 'jobs'
New York Post
WASHINGTON -- President Obama lauded the modest job-growth numbers released yesterday, but said still-rising unemployment numbers mean there's more that needs to be done -- new measures that will be a...
Nurse's patient is long lost pa
New York Post
In a one-in-a-million twist of fate, a Bronx nurse welcoming a terminal-cancer patient to her unit discovered he was her long lost father, who had vanished when she was just months old. "It was fate a...
'Idol' judge Kara out with J.Lo on the way
New York Post
"American Idol" judge Kara DioGuardi is leaving the show, in a strong indication that pop diva Jennifer Lopez has made a deal to replace her, a source said. Reports late this week said J.Lo was very c...
Briton among plane crash victims
Independent.ie
A Briton is among nine people who died when a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company crashed and burst into flames near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps.The plane caught ...
Dubai plane crash investigation begins
7 Days
The state news agency WAM, quoting the General Civil Aviation Authority, reported that the "bodies of two pilots" had been found at the scene.The plane went down inside a UAE air base near t...
Nine killed in New Zealand tourist spot plane crash
Times of India
WELLINGTON: Nine people, including foreigners, were killed when a skydiving plane crashed and burst into flames at a popular New Zealand tourist spot on Saturday, police and media said. The plane went...
11-year-old mauled by sea lion at zoo
New Zealand Herald
SYDNEY: An 11-year-old boy is recovering after being mauled by a sea lion at a popular Sydney zoo in front of horrified visitors. The boy was identified by his stepmother as Jack Lister. He had been ...
Taleban bomber kills 43 in Pakistan
New Zealand Herald
PAKISTAN: A suicide bombing claimed by the Pakistani Taleban killed at least 43 Shiite Muslims at a procession in southwest Pakistan. The assault sharply drove up the toll of sectarian assaults in a c...
Migrant survivors tell tale of Mexican massacre
New Zealand Herald
HONDURAS: A Honduran who survived the massacre of 72 migrants in Mexico helped untie the only other survivor - a wounded Ecuadorean - and the two fled together. In an interview with El Heraldo newspa...
Nine die in New Zealand skydiving plane crash
USA Today
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) Nine people have died after a light aircraft belonging to a skydiving company burst into flames and crashed Saturday near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's So...
Nine die in New Zealand air crash
BBC
Nine people, including four foreigners, have been killed in a light aircraft crash in New Zealand, say reports. The plane, owned by a skydiving company, burst into flames shortly after taking off at ...
Council could cut over 1,000 jobs
BBC
One of Scotland's largest local authorities has warned that it may have to cut more than 1,000 jobs. North Lanarkshire Council is set to discuss ways of saving £70m over the next three years. ...
Andes Crash Survivors Support Trapped Miners
Sky News
A group of former rugby players who survived more than two months of isolation in the Andes after their plane crashed are in Chile to support 33 miners trapped underground.
Aussie among plane crash dead
News.com.au
NINE people including an Australian tourist have died in a light plane crash near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, police said today.
Aussie among plane crash dead
The Daily Telegraph
NINE people including an Australian tourist have died in a light plane crash near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, police said today.
Australian among plane crash dead
News.com.au
AN Australian tourist is among nine people to have died in a light plane crash near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, police said today.
Australian among plane crash dead
The Daily Telegraph
AN Australian tourist is among nine people to have died in a light plane crash near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, police said today.
Australian among plane crash dead
The Courier Mail
AN Australian tourist is among nine people to have died in a light plane crash near a popular tourist spot in New Zealand's Southern Alps, police said today.
Nine people killed in NZ plane crash
The Australian
The plane, belonging to a skydiving company, burst into flames after takeoff from an airstrip at Fox Glacier, said Ian Henderson, a spokesman for local ambulance services.Greymouth Police Senior Serge...
Mexican mayor killed in plane crash
IOL
Oaxaca, Mexico - At least six people, including two Mexican federal lawmakers and a governor, were killed when their small plane crashed in southern Mexico on Friday, the attorney general's office sai...
NYT: Blackwater Created Shell Companies
CBS News
Blackwater 61 "Blackwater 61" is the call sign of a plane flown by the embattled government contractor Blackwater that crashed into a mountain in Afghanistan killing all onboard. The widow of one of t...
Fox: Kara DioGuardi departs 'American Idol'
Philadelphia Daily News
FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2009 file photo, Kara DioGuardi of "American Idol" arrives at the FOX Winter All-Star Party in Los Angeles. Fox TV says Kara DioGuardi is leaving as `American Idol' judge, Frid...
9 killed in New Zealand tourist spot plane crash
Yahoo! News
WELLINGTON (AFP) – Nine people, including foreigners, were killed when a skydiving plane crashed and burst into flames at a popular New Zealand tourist spot Saturday, police and media said. T...
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