First, Terry Bigley watched the tornado overtake his television screen as it ripped through eastern Kansas toward Joplin, Mo., where he lived on the east side in an apartment with his wife. “They had a big picture of it,” he says of the local news station
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Russia-Poland Tensions Rise with Report on Kaczynski Crash
It looked at first like the chance of a lifetime, if not a millennium. On April 10, when Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his entourage died in a plane crash in eastern Russia, the flood of grief from the Russian people struck such a chord in Poland that the long history of war, betrayal and oppression between the countries finally seemed to turn a corner.
Cocaine Habit: Drug Use Rises in U.S. Among Middle Class
The “all-American drug” has hit like a blizzard, with casualties rising.
As Singapore Gets Ready to Vote, New Media Amplifies Voice of Opposition
Elections in Singapore rarely surprise. The ruling People’s Action Party , created in 1954 by Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founding father, has won every general election since 1959
Indonesia’s Raja Ampat Islands Are Remote But Worth the Trip
The Raja Ampat islands are so remote that most Indonesians have never even heard of them. Excursions to this corner of the archipelago in eastern Indonesia, off the coast of Papua in Cendrawasih Bay, require at least seven to 10 days, but few visitors ever regret making the journey — for this is the country’s largest national marine park and offers a range of marine life believed to be the most diverse on the planet.
Libya: Why John McCain Thinks the West Can Still Win
The war in Libya is not going well. Muammar Gaddafi shows no sign of giving up power
The Moment
It is either sublime or ridiculous that one of the most important tools available to Iranians protesting the June 12 presidential election is Twitter.
Does Libya’s Oil Industry Reflect its Fate?
Just two weeks ago, Libya’s oil chief boasted to reporters in Tripoli that the country’s huge energy business could ride out the conflict and quickly recover.
Libya: How a No-Fly Zone Can Become a Red Hot Mess
Libya’s monthlong revolt became an international conflict on Saturday as U.S. and British warships fired 110 Tomahawk missiles at 20 military targets in the country, in the first foreign military action ostensibly designed to stop Muammar Gaddafi’s army from inflicting more damage on rebel strongholds and Libyan civilians
Mercury messenger goes into orbit
It’s taken six years and six gravity assists from three different planets to get there, but at a little after 9 P.M. Eastern time on Thursday night, NASA’s Messenger spacecraft finally settled into orbit around the small, scorched planet Mercury.