Backers of a “geopark” in the Highlands are continuing with efforts to promote its geology after the area lost its Unesco recognition.
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New work at status loss ‘geopark’
Bad weather around Nepal’s iconic Mount Everest has stranded more than 1,500 trekkers in the area of a town near the mountain.
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Trekkers stranded near Mount Everest
About 2,000 people, including tourists, are stranded in the foothills of Mount Everest because bad weather has halted flights in the area, officials say.
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Everest trekkers stranded by fog
Petrol receipts link a man accused of murdering a County Antrim schoolgirl with the area where her body was found floating in a dam, a court hears.
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Petrol ‘link to child’s murder’
Demand to buy in South Street Seaport’s residential enclave is so strong that the area is emerging as a separate neighborhood.
Hundreds of storm-hit seabirds are stranded on the Pembrokeshire coast leading to the biggest rescue operation in the area since the Sea Empress disaster in 1996.
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Birds rescued as storm sweeps in
A bereaved father’s plea for calm in Birmingham helped to quieten tensions in the area, the chief constable of West Midlands Police says.
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Police praise for father’s words
A levee breach along the swollen Missouri River prompted the evacuation Sunday of about 600 people in the area between the river and Hamburg, Iowa, officials said.
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Missouri levee ‘boil’ forces evacuations
Nervous anticipation. That is the feeling permeating through Vicksburg, Mississippi, as it awaits a historic flood crest to wash through the area later this week.
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Flood zones ‘taking one’ for America
Osama bin Laden may have hated America, but he loved its soft drinks: Local shopkeepers say that people from Bin Laden’s compound regularly bought Pepsi, Coke, and other popular brands in bulk. A shopkeeper in the area was “curious” why they bought…
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Bin Laden Loved Pepsi
Even though a final plan for dealing with the severely damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant isn’t in place, officials say they’ll start searching for bodies near the complex. Police in protective gear are swarming the area, which has been off limits…
NATO acknowledged that it may have accidentally killed rebels for the second time in less than a week, but said it wouldn’t apologize for it. “The situation in the area is still very fluid, with tanks and other vehicles moving in different directions,…
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NATO Won’t Apologize for Attacking Rebels
Police investigators discovered three new sets of remains at a beach on Long Island Monday, bringing the total number of bodies found in the area to eight. The discoveries began this past December, when police found the bodies of four prostitutes who…
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More Bodies Discovered at N.Y. Beach
Many coastal towns and villages in the area hit by the earthquake and tsunami are almost completely cut off.
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VIDEO: Hunt for tsunami survivors continues
Libyan state TV reported Sunday that the opposition-held town of al-Brega had been “been cleansed from the criminal gangs and mercenaries, the area is now safe, and all citizens should go back to their work and their normal life.”
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State TV: Gadhafi forces retake town
