The earthquake's epicenter was located at 0.20 degrees northern latitude and 120.64 degrees eastern longitude, at a depth of 33 km below sea level, around 96 km southwest of Tolitoli, Indonesia's ANTARA news agency quoted the National Meteorology and Geophysics Office (BMG) as saying on Monday.

The appearance of the virus in Hong Kong, more active in the cooler months between October and March, is closely watched as it may indicate the level of activity of the virus in mainland China, which has a poultry population of 13 billion.

First came Ireland’s rejection of the Lisbon Treaty. Recently, in the wake of the global financial meltdown, came its breaking of EU rules by acting unilaterally to protect its own financial institutions.

Violence in the war-torn country has surged this year with attacks at their highest level in six years, the United Nations' top envoy in Afghanistan said this month. Some 4,000 people have died so far this year, a third of them civilians.

The incident, filmed by AP Television News, shows four Jewish men passing through an orchard in the West Bank town of Hebron. They are then seen punching and kicking the photographer, Abed Hashlamoun of the EPA news agency. Hashlamoun said he was taking pictures of the men when he was attacked. One of the settlers snatched his camera but dropped it after a foreign human rights activist tried to retrieve it, he said.

Based on reports from local citizens participating in the 40 Days for Life prayer vigil outside the Cherry Hill Women's Center, New Jersey Right to Life has confirmed that the Clarion Hotel in Cherry Hill offers a reduced rate of $59 for a room originally priced at $109 to those women who provide a receipt from the clinic that says they have to stay overnight. In addition, the Quality Inn in Maple Shade offers a discounted rate of $74.95 for a room originally priced at $99.99 and a free breakfast of eggs and pancakes for women who present a stamped pamphlet from the clinic.

Resident in the capital said they felt the quake shortly after 5 a.m. local time. Officials say it was centered 94 miles southeast of there at a depth of 20 miles in the Pacific ocean.

Extreme drought conditions, the second-worst possible, have now spread into Kentucky, and severe conditions have returned to West Virginia and southwest Virginia, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

According to a report today in the London Times online edition, the link became evident during a string of police raids across Britain and Europe in which authorities found images of child abuse and porn during anti-terrorism stings in Italy and Spain.

Bomb attacks are relatively rare in or near Herat, one of the most peaceful and prosperous cities in Afghanistan and the main hub for booming trade with nearby Iran.

It was Alamo's first appearance since his Sept. 25 arrest in Arizona, five days after his compound in Fouke was raided and six girls were taken into protective custody. A federal grand jury indicted Alamo on the charge that he violated the Mann Act that prohibits bringing children across state lines for sex.

The jets bombed Mount Qandil, an area about 60 miles inside Iraq, where the Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK leadership is believed to be hiding.

Antiguan Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer warned of a produce shortage, saying the farming community "appears to have suffered an extensive loss of crops."

The boat, operated by the abortion-rights group Women on Waves, arrived at the port of Valencia Thursday and began carrying out its first abortion procedures today.

Jet fighters, including American-made F-4s, F-5s and F-14s and Russian-made Sukhoi planes, are involved in the operation.

Operation Rescue president Troy Newman, who talked with the victim after the incident on Saturday (October 11), explains what happened. "Sidewalk counselor Mary Adams was attacked by the mother of an abortion-bound patient in Omaha, Nebraska, last week after the sidewalk counselor [had] talked the young girl out of an abortion [the previous day]," he explains.