The young man slowly climbed the flagpole that still stood guard over the crumbled presidential palace, reaching up to snatch what was left of the flag, a dusty red and blue cloth.For Haitians, the red and blue ---or black and blue, depending on the presidency -- flying atop the National Palace has always been a source of pride, for better or for worse, dictatorship or democracy.
The annual electronics tradeshow returns
The world’s home for gambling, drinking and fun, Sin City, took a different turn for four days in early January. From January 7-10, Las Vegas hosted the annual electronics tradeshow, the International Consumer Electronics Show. The electronics show, which was first held in June 1967, has been a place for companies to come and show off their new inventions for the upcoming year.
The dead overwhelmed the General Hospital morgue, and the injured outnumbered doctors and nurses Thursday as rescue workers from across the globe struggled to reach the shattered island and distribute much-needed food, water and medical supplies.
On the second night in her new house here, Jane Ngoiri told one of her children to get something out of the kitchen. Then she started laughing. "I told them, 'It is us talking about a kitchen. A kitchen!' " recalled Ngoiri, a former prostitute who moved with her four children earlier this year from a rented, one-room shanty in the Nairobi slum of Mathare.
China's leadership says it has calmed this city after almost 200 people were stabbed, bludgeoned or beaten to death in July riots and more violent protests this month forced the removal of top officials.
A Pakistani terrorist group that's allied with al-Qaida and sends jihadists to Afghanistan to fight U.S. and government troops is building a huge new base in full view of the authorities in Pakistan's most heavily populated province, locals and officials told McClatchy.
The threats come at least once a week in the dark of night, Zaiba Habib Durrani said. The caller vows to kill her or disfigure her face with acid.Durrani also recounted how insurgents had tailed her husband and her on a 200-mile round-trip drive to Kabul ...
