The powerful earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around Christchurch, New Zealand, also ripped an 11-foot wide fault line in earth surface.
Uruguayans who survived more than 2 months of isolation in the Andes after a plane crash met Saturday with some of the relatives of 33 trapped miners and urged them to stay strong.
At least 18 people were killed in Guatemala on Saturday, including a dozen on a bus that was buried in a landslide, as heavy rains lashed the Central American nation and southern Mexico.
Clashes in a refugee camp in Sudan's restive Darfur region left six people dead, U.N.-African Union peacekeepers said Saturday, days after violence elsewhere in the area claimed the lives of at least 37 people dead.
At least five people were killed and 35 wounded Sunday when a suicide bomber attacked troops at a firing range in Russia's southern republic of Dagestan, sources said.
Two days after the restart of peace talks, Israeli aircraft strike targets in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip after Palestinian militants fire a rocket into Israel.
The death toll from a Pakistani Taliban suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim procession rose to 65 Saturday as critically wounded people died in hospitals, while a suspected U.S. missile strike killed seven insurgents in a restive tribal area.
Police in El Salvador have found two buried oil drums stuffed with millions of dollars in cash possibly linked to the illegal drug trade, authorities said Saturday.
Wen Baragrey, a writer who lives by the sea in Christchurch, New Zealand, shares her chaotic escape from her swaying home during the early morning earthquake that struck.
After disrupting Labor Day weekend plans millions, Earl makes a blustery landfall Saturday morning in Canada's Nova Scotia province, where one man died.
A spending bonanza before the tournament made it look as though the government cares about glitzy showmanship more than its workers. This week their frustration boiled over.
