AT least 10 people were killed and 86 others wounded today in a Tamil Tiger suicide bombing near the official residence of Sri Lanka`s president in the capital Colombo, officials said
LOCAL residents have a simple answer for why the four-storey Juyuan Middle School collapsed during the China quake ? killing hundreds of children ? while nearby buildings remained standing
WITH survivors still emerging from the rubble today, rescue teams waged an increasingly desperate battle to find victims of China`s earthquake which has claimed an estimated 50,000 lives
FORTY-SIX seriously injured people needed to be evacuated immediately in Beichuan, at the epicentre of the Sichuan quake, where the water level of a lake is rising rapidly and may burst at any time, Xinhua news agency reported, quoting warnings from soldiers at the site
THE Chinese Government is drafting plans to arrange adoptions for the growing number of children whose parents died in this week`s major earthquake, state media said today
THE devastating earthquake in southwest China was so powerful that its seismic waves travelled around the globe - twice, a Japanese observatory said today
