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A giant tornado, a mile wide or more, killed at least 91 people, 20 of them children, as it tore across parts of Oklahoma City and its suburbs Monday afternoon, flattening homes, flinging cars through the air and crushing at least two schools. The injured flooded into hospitals, and the authorities said many people remained trapped, even as rescue workers struggled to make their way through debris-clogged streets to the   Read More ...

Details: The aircraft crashed short of the runway while attempting to land in heavy rain at Goma Airport impacting buildings in the Lake Kivu area. The plane, a Fokker 50 owned by CAA, crashed into a residential area during landing maneuvers. The aircraft was operating a domestic flight and took off from the city of Lodja. It seems the pilots lost control of the plane due to bad weather. According   Read More ...

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobianin, removed a subordinate in the snow on streets that were cleaned in Photoshop, write Gazeta.ru. It’s about Leonid Bogatiriov, district administration chief Orehovo-Borisovo, the Russian capital. In late January, Yuri Bear blogger wrote a complaint on the website administration Moscow on “pedestrian street that has not been cleaned ever since the beginning of winter.” Two days later, on February 1, received a reply signed by the   Read More ...

Protesters in Istanbul are rallying in support of musician Fazil Say’s right to express himself. The leading Turkish pianist and composer is facing blasphemy charges after he posted comments on his Twitter account allegedly ridiculing Islam. The case has caused an outcry over Turkey’s attitude to freedom of speech, with the star’s supporters criticising authorities for putting him on trial. Actor Rutkay Aziz say it is a crime to accuse   Read More ...

CUBA – A passport, and the world is theirs. From January 14, Cubans will have the right to travel outside their borders, a great novelty. Until then, and for more than fifty years, they had to ask permission to leave the authorities, and a letter of invitation from abroad. Both procedures are now removed. Cubans still got an authorization could not leave that eleven months, under penalty of confiscation of   Read More ...

The accident occurred Sunday afternoon during a military exercise. Cruiser crew did not have time to react and avoid impact. Pentagon officials state that no member of the second crew was not injured in the incident, and load nuclear submarine was unaffected by the collision. The accident happened while the submarine cruiser San Jacinto Montpelier and moved in with another ship group to take part in a military exercise. Submarine   Read More ...

Liv Tyler (born July 1, 1977) is an American actress and model. She is the daughter of Aerosmith’s lead singer, Steven Tyler, and Bebe Buell, model and singer. Tyler began a career in modeling at the age of 14, but after less than a year she decided to focus on acting. She made her film debut in the 1994 film Silent Fall. She then appeared in supporting roles in Empire   Read More ...

Vladimir Putin is at the centre of a bizarre controversy after the release of a photograph allegedly showing the former KGB spy disguised as a member of a tourist party instructed to harangue Ronald Reagan over his human rights record. According to Pete Souza, President Barack Obama’s official photographer, a picture he took in Red Square 21 years ago indicates that Mr Putin was part of a KGB plot to   Read More ...

This supermassive airship hangar(1,181 feet long x 688 feet wide x 351 feet high, big enough to hold 14 Boeing 747s) built a decade ago at an abandoned Soviet military base south of Berlin. Now it has been given a second life as an tropical islands resort that holds the world’s largest indoor pool and water park. A waterpark is an amusement park that features waterplay areas, such as water   Read More ...

The U.S. government is concerned that Israel is preparing, in spite of his objections, a military action against Iran and created an emergency plan to save its institutions in the region, writes Wall Street Journal. According to the newspaper, President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other senior officials have already sent Israel a series of messages, warning them of the consequences of such an attack. Barack Obama on   Read More ...