Month: November 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hurricane Tomas flooded camps of earthquake victims, turning some into squalid islands yesterday as it battered Haiti’s rural western tip, while largely sparing the vast homeless encampments in the shattered capital. […] […]

Drunk driver Hafeez Mohamed was pinned under two officers, face down on the ground when Durham Region Constable Prasanth Tella slammed a fist into his head, neck and shoulder at least seven times. Within hours […] […]

A surge of searing gas raced down the sides of Mount Merapi on Friday, smothering entire villages as it killed or seriously burned those caught in its path. The death toll after the volcano’s largest […] […]

A HOLOCAUST-ERA mass grave containing the bodies of an estimated 100 Jews killed by Romanian troops has been discovered in a forest, researchers say, offering further evidence of the country’s involvement in wartime crimes. The […] […]