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In the aftermath of the Philippines flood,s 1,000 are dead and many more still missing

Politician Jules Manson, a former city council candidate and rabid Ron Paul supporter, posted an extremely racist tirade against President Obama following the signing of the NDAA, calling him a monkey and urging the n***r's assassination. Manson's tirade prompts a look at Paul's past associations with white supremacy groups, but those who call Paul racist go too far.

The snowstorm could impact the mid-Atlantic and New England Christmas weekend. And, while the forecast calls for rain at the moment over major I-95 corridor cities including New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., that could still change if enough cold air seeps in before the moisture arrives.

Sailors had roughly 30 minutes before freezing to death in the icy cold waters of the Sea of Okhotsk where the floating platform listed in heavy seas and sank.

A life-threatening and dangerous winter storm is expected to hammer New Mexico and the High Plains areas of far northeast Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas until Tuesday, weather.com reported on Monday.

Officials in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan, the worst-hit cities, said they were running out of evacuation centers and coffins for the dead. Funeral parlors already packed with decomposed bodies are no longer able to accommodate any freshly recovered corpses.

A major winter storm is moving towards the U.S. Southern Plains, forecasters say. Heavy snow and blizzard conditions are expected to set in through southwestern Kansas, central and eastern Texas and Oklahoma.

The storm will bring snow through the Midwest and Northeast before ending, but it's the Southwest that is expected to be particularly hard less than a week before Christmas a holiday travel begins for some. The storm is still devloping, and the total impact is unclear, but it does appear late Sunday afternoon that into Monday parts of the region could get hammered.

An oil-drilling rig with 67 crew members on board capsized and sank off the Russian Far East island of Sakhalin when it ran into a storm while being towed, and 51 of the crew were unaccounted for, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday.

More than 430 are dead and many others missing after Tropical Storm Washi hit the southern Philippines, officials have confirmed. Authorities said the massive flood has forced tens of thousands of people to flee to safety.

More than 400 people were killed and an unknown number were missing after Typhoon Washi struck the southern Philippines, causing flash floods and landslides.

Basketball superstar Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers and his wife Vanessa have filed for divorce after more than 10 years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences, a representative for the couple said on Friday.

More than 250 people were killed and almost twice that number were missing after a typhoon hit the southern Philippines, officials said Saturday. The storm triggered flash floods and landslides, forcing tens of thousands from their homes.

A typhoon hitting the southern Philippines triggered flash floods and landslides that killed nearly 180 people and forced about 100,000 from their homes, government and army officials said on Saturday.

Visitors to Luoyang, China were shocked this week when the Jian (or Jianhe) river turned a lurid blood red overnight. Investigators found the blood-red shade came from an illegal chemical dumps by nearby plants, but locals claim the river often changes color from pollutants. Here, see pictures of China's eerie River of Blood.

From humble pushcart to hipster food truck, New York City street food isn't what it used to be.

Residents in the British city of Coventry were left puzzled when approximately 100 apples fell from the sky, over the Keresley area of the city, at 7 p.m. GMT, on Monday.

Shirtless men clad in red sweatpants have been lining up for days in Singapore's prime shopping district, part of an advertising gimmick revealing not just muscle but also a gradual unpeeling of the city state's puritanical ways.

Movie studio The Weinstein Company and cable network HBO led rival companies at the Golden Globe nominations on Thursday, giving their movies and TV shows a measure of prestige that should lure audiences.

Lucy, a three-year-old American Staffordshire Terrier, is looking for a home.

If Indian policymakers are hoping the country's slowing economy can rebound largely the same way it did from the 2008 global financial crisis, they are dreaming. India's economic slowdown is likely to prolong.