The toll from floods in the northern Philippines rose to at least 284 dead or missing Tuesday as bedraggled victims queued up for aid and Typhoon Ketsana roared into Vietnam.

GUINEA: Doctors in Guinea have treated hundreds of injured civilians after soldiers fired at a pro-democracy rally killing 157 people.

Singapore Visitor Arrivals in August 2009.

Fiorentina’s wonderful first half condemned Liverpool to a stunning 2-0 Champions League defeat in Florence.

The Lord Baltimore Hotel in Downtown Baltimore Maryland is currently owned by the Hotel Chain Radisson. It is one of the examples of how Art Deco and great service blends together to give a superb taste.

The recession has hit middle-income and poor families hardest, widening the economic gap between the richest and poorest Americans as rippling job layoffs ravaged household budgets.

The rate of contraction of the UK economy in the second quarter has been reduced again from the previous three months.

Iran tested its most advanced missiles Monday to cap two days of war games, raising more international concern and stronger pressure to quickly come clean on the newly revealed nuclear site Tehran was secretly constructing.

Chinese researchers have unearthed the fossil of a bird-like dinosaur with four wings, which they suggest is a missing link in dinosaurs’ evolution into birds.

Swissôtel signs Hotel in Kolkata, India.