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Tornado tears up homes, trees in Indianapolis (AP)

Published May 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. Closed

The belongings of residents are scattered outside a destroyed building at the Falcon Point Apartments in Indianapolis, Saturday, May 31, 2008. No serious injuries were reported in the damage from a severe storm that hit the city late Friday night. Approximately 250 units in the complex were destroyed. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - Residents cleaned up Saturday after a tornado plowed a trail of destruction through the east side of Indianapolis, but they gave thanks that nobody was killed and that the only injuries were minor.

Tornado tears up homes, trees in Indianapolis (AP)

Published May 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. Closed

The belongings of residents are scattered outside a destroyed building at the Falcon Point Apartments in Indianapolis, Saturday, May 31, 2008. No serious injuries were reported in the damage from a severe storm that hit the city late Friday night. Approximately 250 units in the complex were destroyed. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - Residents cleaned up Saturday after a tornado plowed a trail of destruction through the east side of Indianapolis, but they gave thanks that nobody was killed and that the only injuries were minor.

Space shuttle carries Japanese lab into orbit (Reuters)

Published May 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. Closed

JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide (C) gives a thumbs while leaving the space shuttle landing facility with STS-124 space shuttle Discovery mission specialist Gregory Chamitoff (L), pilot Kenneth Hamm and mission specialist's Karen Nyberg (both R) at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida May 28, 2008. (Scott Audette/Reuters)Reuters - Space shuttle Discovery
blasted off a seaside launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in
Florida on Saturday to deliver Japan’s huge new research
laboratory to the International Space Station.

Australia becomes a magnet for banker “refugees” (Reuters)

Published May 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. Closed

Grant Lovett, head of fixed income at UBS Australia, poses at USB headquarters in Sydney May 29, 2008. Bankers facing layoffs in Europe and the United States are looking increasingly at Australia's drum-tight market, led by expatriate Australians tempted home by a buoyant local economy. Picture taken May 29, 2008. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters)Reuters - Australia has become a refuge for a new
endangered species: the high-flying banker.

Tropical Storm Arthur, 1st of hurricane season, hits Yucatan (AP)

Published May 31st, 2008 in Uncategorized. Closed

This NOAA satellite image taken Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 02:15 PM EDT shows clouds in the western Caribbean Sea associated with Tropical Storm Arthur that formed from the remnants of Tropical Storm Alma. The storm is expected to make its way into the Bay of Campeche over the next few days. (AP Photo/Weather Undergound)AP - A weak tropical storm formed Saturday off the Yucatan Peninsula and quickly made landfall at the Belize-Mexico border, dumping rain and kicking up surf.


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