Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, has given birth to a baby girl, royal officials said Saturday. The baby weighs 8 pounds 3 ounces. The palace added that Kate and her child are both doing well, and that William was present for the birth.
Rescuers in Kathmandu, Nepal pulled a teenage boy alive from the rubble of a collapsed building on Thursday. The boy had been trapped since the earthquake on Saturday.
Hands pressed together in supplication, the Nepalese women pleaded for food, shelter and anything else the helicopter might have brought on an in-and-out run Wednesday to this smashed mountain village near the epicenter of last weekend's mammoth earthquake that killed more than 5,000 people.
Preparing to make a push into the most isolated parts of quake-devastated Nepal, soldiers on Tuesday were readying food, water and other emergency supplies to be loaded onto helicopters in this small town near the earthquake's epicenter.
The death toll from Nepal's earthquake soared past 3,300 Monday. Rescue workers are still struggling to reach vulnerable mountain villages two days after the initial quake.
A day after a massive Himalayan earthquake killed more than 2,200 people, rescue efforts continued for trapped victims as panicked tourists looked to flee.
A powerful, 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook Nepal's capital and the densely populated Kathmandu Valley before noon Saturday, collapsing houses and leveling centuries-old temples in the worst temblor in the Himalayan nation in over 80 years.
The Calbuco volcano erupted Wednesday for the first time in more than 42 years, billowing a huge ash cloud over a sparsely populated, mountainous area in southern Chile.