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GENEVA – The storm warnings issued by Burma, renamed Myanmar by the ruling military junta, to alert its population about Cyclone Nargis were sufficient and heavy loss of life was inevitable, the U.N. weather agency said Wednesday. Even rich countries would have struggled to cope with the type of storm …

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – A strong earthquake shook southern Iceland on Thursday, injuring at least 15 people as it rocked buildings in the capital, touched off landslides and forced evacuations in outlying towns, officials and local media said. Government officials reported that 15 to 30 people were injured, none of the …

BERLIN – A trio of packaged pythons has caused a scare at a German post office. Police in Darmstadt said Friday that the snakes were stuffed into a parcel that was handed in for mailing to eastern Germany. It contained two tiger pythons and an albino tiger python of more …