Laborers from across the country have returned to their native Sichuan Province, where many elderly Chinese have refused to leave devastated - and still at risk - villages.
President Felipe Calderón?s vow to clean up police corruption and end drug-related violence has turned into a street war in which no target has been too big and no attack too brazen for the gangs.
The government has sought to suggest the country had enough rice, but people lining the roads of the ravaged Irrawaddy Delta waiting to be fed tell a different story.
AP - Severe thunderstorms packing large hail and tornadoes rumbled across the nation's midsection on Sunday, killing at least eight people and damaging dozens of homes, authorities said.
AP - A NASA spacecraft plunged into the atmosphere of Mars and successfully landed in the Red Planet's northern polar region on Sunday, where it will begin 90 days of digging in the permafrost to look for evidence of the building blocks of life.
AP - A powerful aftershock destroyed tens of thousands of homes in central China on Sunday, killing six people and straining recovery efforts from the country's worst earthquake in three decades. More than 500 others were injured.
Tornadoes swept through the Midwest on Sunday, killing seven people in Iowa and a toddler in Minnesota. The Iowa towns of Parkersburg and New Hartford were hit hard, the governor's office said. And a 2-year-old child died when a tornado slammed a Minneapolis suburb, the Hugo city manager said.
The Mars Phoenix Lander has completed its 296-day, 422 million-mile journey to Mars on a mission to find signs of life. Directors had remained anxious over the first-ever landing of a probe near Mars' north pole, saying there was about a 50-50 chance of a successful touchdown.
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