Dhading, Nepal July 05, 2010- Heavy rain washed two houses and killed five and two still missing in Dhading. The bodies of five persons among the seven who went missing in a landslide that occurred in Borang villag of Gumdi VDC, Dhading, Monday morning have been recovered.

The bodies of Tel Maya Gurung, 62, Dilmaya Gurung,31, Tikamaya Gurung, 15, Manmaya Gurung, 13 and Somati Gurung, 7, were found by a team of policemen and locals involved in the search and rescue operations in the area.
 

London April 15, 2010-Many airports were shut and flights grounded across Northern Europe Thursday because of ash from a volcanic eruption in Iceland, airport authorities said.

A huge plume of ash was moving east across the Atlantic after the eruption of a volcano beneath Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier early Wednesday.

All flights from London's Heathrow and Stansted airport north of the city would be suspended from 11.30 a.m. (6.30 a.m. EST), according to the British Airport Authority (BAA). Passengers were advised not to travel to the airport.

Qinghai April 15, 2010-An Emergency teams have been pouring into western China's Qinghai province, a day after a deadly earthquake devastated the mountainous region.

Thousands of homeless people have spent the night in freezing temperatures.

Officials say 617 people died and 9,980 were injured when the quake hit early on Wednesday - 313 remain missing.

Rescuers tore at the rubble with their bare hands and shovels, as emergency convoys battled through sandstorms and sleet to disaster-hit Yushu county.

"Freezing weather, high altitude and thin air have all made rescue efforts difficult," Hou Shike, deputy head of China International Search and Rescue, told official news agency Xinhua.

A destruction rocked by An earthquake that Chinese officials measured at magnitude 7.1 rocked a remote, mostly Tibetan-populated county in western China early Wednesday, killing at least 400 people and injuring at least 8,000, according to state television reports.

The quake struck in Qinghai province about 20 miles from the county seat of Yushu, where it toppled houses, an elementary school and part of a Buddhist tower in a public park and seriously damaged the main hospital in town, officials told Chinese media.

"In a flash, the houses went down. It was a terrible earthquake," one witness said.

BEIJING, APR 14, 2010- A series of strong earthquakes struck China's western Qinghai province Wednesday, toppling houses, killing at least 67 people and burying many others in a mountainous rural area, officials and state media said.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported on its Web site that a magnitude 6.9 temblor struck an area in southern Qinghai, near Tibet, on Wednesday morning and was followed by three quakes in the same area.

The main quake sent residents fleeing as it toppled houses made of mud and wood, said Karsum Nyima, the Yushu county television station's deputy head of news, speaking by phone with broadcaster CCTV.