BURMA began three days of official mourning at 9am (11am AEST) for more than 133,000 people left dead or missing by Cyclone Nargis, lowering national flags to half mast
A MAN has been pulled alive from the rubble of a power plant, 179 hours after it collapsed in the May 12 earthquake that struck China`s Sichuan province
THOUSANDS of Chinese fled for cover in fear of an earthquake today, alarmed not only by warnings from seismologists but also by an unusual mass movement of frogs, state media said
THE World Bank won`t provide any financial aid to cyclone-stricken Burma because the country has not been servicing its World Bank debt since 1998, a bank official said today
