Worldcrunch NEW YORK – Former Beatle Paul McCartney will perform with Nirvana’s Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic at 12.12.12 benefit gig for Superstorm Sandy. Here is an imaginary mashup setlist of the songs they might play tonight in New York: 1- Smells Like The Walrus 2- Come As Lady Madonna 3- Lucy In The Sky […]
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THE CARIBBEAN JOURNAL, CNN, NBC, AP (USA), BBC NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch Haiti is pleading for international help in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, as more than a million Haitians risk being victims of food shortages. The Caribbean Journal reports that Johan Peleman, the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ […]
Worldcrunch As Sandy pummels the United States, the Pacific typhoon season has been well underway on the other side of the world, resulting in some 500 deaths and $3.36 billion in total damages in Asia. Take a look at the five storms that you may have missed: 1. Typhoon KhanunIn mid-July, Typhoon Khanun swept over […]
CNN, NBC NEWS, NYT (USA), BBC (UK), INSTAGRAM Worldcrunch As superstorm Sandy continues to wreak its deadly destruction over the Northeast, here are the latest developments, by the numbers: • 16: number of reported deaths caused by the storm in the U.S. • 68: number of lives claimed outside the U.S., including 51 in Haiti […]