Disasters

Police say 20-year-old Stefon Banks was crossing the bridge with friends and hopped over a railing he thought had a landing on the other side. Instead Banks fell to Raspberry Island below.
Getting relief to starving Somalis
International relief groups are poised to offer food and medicine to millions who are fleeing a drought in Somalia in the middle of civil war. But will insurgient fighters allow western help in for starving people? We'll ask whether a declaration of famine is enough to help a desperate situation.