2006 European floods: Thousands of emergency workers in
Romania,
Bulgaria and
Serbia try to bolster
dikes to prevent
flooding along the swollen
Danube River, which has surged to its highest level in more than a century.
(CNN) Several thousand people have been evacuated from their homes.
(BBC)
An
El Al airplane in which a malfunction had been detected made a successful
emergency landing at the
Ben Gurion Airport. The flight, which had departed for Moscow made its way back to
Tel Aviv after a malfunction was discovered in one of its wheels upon liftoff. The plane emptied its fuel tank above the sea and then landed at the Ben Gurion airport.
(Ynetnews)
Today marks the 100th Anniversary of the
1906 San Francisco earthquake. Events marking the centennial will be held today and will continue through the end of the year.
(CBS)(BBC)
The head of
Gazprom, Russia's natural-gas monopoly, told officials of the
European Union not to "politicize" the gas market—the speech was part of an escalating war of words between Russia as supplier and the EU as customer.
(Moscow Times)