According to CNN.com today’s news, “Although the death toll is lower, the 15 million people affected are more than those affected in the 2005 Pakistan earthquakes, the 2004 Indonesia tsunami and the January earthquake in Haiti combined.”
Read the full story with videos, Pakistani president finally visits flood-affected areas, at the CNN site.
Read the full story with video, Pakistani president visits flood relief camp in Sindh, at the BBC site.
People in Moscow have been suffering for several weeks now because of heat and smog cause by wildfires. According to news reports, the death rate has doubled and the level of air pollution will remain high in the coming days in Moscow, Russia.
Read the full story, Moscow death toll soars as heat wave persists, at the Los Angeles Times site.
Read the full story with video, Heat and smog double death rate in Moscow, at the CNN site.
Mia Farrow has testified in court today at The Hague that model Naomi Campbell said that the ex-Liberian President Charles Taylor sent men and had given her a diamond.
The former Liberian Charles Taylor is being accused of illegally using mined diamonds and selling diamonds to secure weapons for the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels of Sierra Leone during the 1991-2001 civil war.
Liberia is the oldest republic of Africa.
Read the full story with video, Naomi Campbell said Taylor sent diamond: Mia Farrow, at the BBC site.
Read the full story, Q&A: Charles Taylor on trial, at the BBC site.
Read the full story with video, Farrow: Campbell said diamond was from Taylor, at the CNN site.
Note: Mia Farrow gives evidence at The Hague live right now. The live video may not be available anymore once the session is closed. Broadcast subject to a 30 minute delay.
Updated on August 10, 2010, added a video.
CNN’s Kyung Lah looks at Toyota’s president, Akio Toyoda, as he prepares to face U.S. lawmakers.
CNN’s Kyung Lah reports on how Toyota’s fate could hinge on CEO Akio Toyoda’s performance before U.S. lawmakers.
Read the full story with video, Japan Inc.’s reputation rides on Toyoda, at the CNN site.
A senate report concludes the diabetes drug Avandia is linked to tens of thousands of heart attacks.
The Indian holy town of Shirdi boasts the world’s largest solar cooker.
CNN’s Mallika Kapur reports
Children of poor British families were brought to Australia in a program called ‘The Child Migrants Programme’ that ended 40 years ago. Those children were promised of a better life but ended up abused and forced into labor. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologized on Monday to those British migrant victims known as the ‘Forgotten Australians’.
Read the full story with video, ‘Forgotten Australians’ get apology, at the CNN site.
Read the full story with video, Australian PM Kevin Rudd issues apology to British child migrants, at The Telegraph site.
Read the full story, Britain, Australia Apologize to Child Migrants, at the Fox News site.
Today, November 11, 2009, is Armistice Day. It is the 91st anniversary of the end of World War I in 1918, and the world commemorated especially the United States, United Kingdom, and France. [bbc.co.uk and www.dw-world.de]
Read the full story, Services remember world war dead, at the BBC site.
Read the full story, Merkel makes history in France on Armistice Day, at the Deutsche Welle site.
Germany’s Berlin Wall came down on November 09, 1989. It maybe was just a wall, a mass of concrete but it was the symbol of division in Germany as the Berlin Wall divided West and East Germany 20 years ago. Today is the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Germans are remembering the reunification of West Germany and East Germany 20 years ago. [dw-world.de]
Explore the former inner German border with DW’s animated video
Read the full story, November 9, 1989 – the day that changed European history at the Deutsche Welle site.
Vietnam is still a conservative country despite its rapid development, and talking about sex is still highly embarrassing for most people. But for some, they would turn the conversation into a joke if the subject is about sex to avoid being judged or getting embarrassed. [bbc.co.uk]
Read the full story, Vietnamese see funny side of sex, at the BBC site.
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