The massive clouds of black smoke reminded Carlos Salgado of the horrifying television images he’d seen of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. At least 15 of the 40 tanks at the Caribbean Petroleum Corp
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Fuel blast sends mushroom cloud over San Juan
A mushroom cloud of thick dark smoke hovered over the Puerto Rican capital after a blast ripped through a fuel storage complex near San Juan early Friday and caused a massive fire.
Obama unique among presidential Nobel winners
In winning the Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama joins an elite group of U.S. presidents.
American Samoans pulling together after quake, tsunami
Residents of close-knit American Samoa are pulling together to help Pago Pago recover from Tuesday’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, one of them told CNN on Wednesday. “That’s how we operate over here in American Samoa — basically everyone is related,” said iReporter Maneafaiga T.
Two quakes in the same region in a day – coincidence?
Four tropical cyclones, two major earthquakes with accompanying tsunamis, all occurring around the Western Pacific and Southern Asia within one day. So much activity in the same portion of the world, how unusual is something like this, and could they be related According to CNN meteorologist and weather producer Brandon Miller this is certainly not unprecedented as far as tropical systems go.
UK set for three-way iPhone price war
Vodafone on Tuesday announced it would start selling Apple’s popular iPhone in the UK from early next year, in a move that should bolster efforts to turnround the mobile operator’s ailing British business. It means there will be three UK mobile operators selling the US technology company’s iPhone from next year: Vodafone, Orange and O2.
Students launch camera to edge of space, snap pics of Earth
Oliver Yeh is the kind of guy who cooks up ideas so kooky, so out-of-this-world, that even his fellow MIT students tend to roll their eyes when they hear them.
Comment: Why race is not Obama’s biggest problem
Are white Americans turning against Barack Obama because of the color of his skin?
Commentary: Time for Palin to strut her stuff
Is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin running for vice president of the United States or vice president of the student council?
Scores killed in multiple Iraq bombings
At least 20 civilians were killed and 20 others wounded in a suicide bombing Thursday in northern Iraq, an Interior Ministry official said. Bosses at a hospital in Swindon, western England, were angered after photographs of the doctors and nurses lying face down on resuscitation trolleys, ward floors and an air ambulance helipad were posted on social networking site Facebook.