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A major international relief effort was launched yesterday to hurry rescuers and suppliers to the Caribbean country as the streets of Port-au-Prince were left strewn with corpses and shattered buildings.

Little escaped the devastation wrought by the grade 7.0-magnitude quake that struck the area in the south of Haiti on Tuesday afternoon.

Hospitals and schools collapsed and were reportedly full of dead while 200 foreigners were missing from the city’s expensive Hotel Montana.

Up to 200 United Nations staff in the city were unaccounted for last night including the civilian head of mission, Hedi Annabi of Tunisia, after its headquarters was flattened.

Monsignor Serge Miot, the city’s Catholic archbishop, was a confirmed casualty, his body pulled from the rubble of his offices while his vicar general, Charles Benoit, was missing.

The presidential palace, Haiti’s grandest building, was substantially destroyed and its incumbent, Rene Preval, described the scene in his capital as “unimaginable”.

He said he had been stepping over the bodies of the dead and hearing the cries of the trapped underneath his country’s collapsed parliament building.

His prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, said the government believed the death toll in the city of two million people was “well over 100,000″ while Youri Latortue, a senior senator, said it could be 500,000.

Both admitted they had no way of knowing but aid workers on the scene reported widespread destruction and suffering as severely injured people lay in the streets, unable to get medical assistance.

Haiti, the poorest country by far in the western hemisphere, was already struggling to recover from a series of severe hurricanes and flooding in 2008.

The country sits on a major fault line and scientists have warned for years that it was likely to be hit by a major earthquake.

A report, commissioned by the government, suggests firms such as Google, Yahoo and Facebook should pay a new tax on their online ad revenues.

The money could be used to fund legal alternatives for buying books, films and music on the internet.

But critics say the tax would be difficult to implement and Google says it could slow down innovation.

President Nicolas Sarkozy has taken a tough line on the increasing dominance of digital content.

France has just introduced tough new legislation aimed at removing those who persistently download illegal content from the net.

It has also gone head-to-head with Google over its plans to digitise the world’s books, with a project to set up its own digital library financed by the government to the tune of £700m.

And it is considering a law which would give net users the option to have old data about themselves deleted.

The proposals for a tax on content is still very much in the early stages and there are few details of how it would exactly work.

Patrick Zelnik, who contributed to the report and is also the founder of the French president’s wife’s record label, hopes the idea will be taken on board across the EU.

But Google is among those to have voiced opposition to the plan.

“We don’t think introducing an additional tax on internet advertising is the right way forward as it could slow down innovation,” said Olivier Esper, senior policy manager for Google France.

The better way to support content creation is to find new business models that help consumers find great content and rewards artists and publishers for their work.”

BBC

The young girls walked into a branch of 1st National Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio and handed a note to the cashier demanding money.

According to police the note implied the girls would harm employees if the money was not given to them. They did not appear to have any weapons.

Staff complied and the girls walked out with a bag full of money. They then evaded an extensive police search which included a helicopter and sniffer dogs.

One of the girls was described as heavy set, around 5 feet 4 inches tall, and was wearing a hooded top and blue jeans.

The other was said to be second thin, around 5 feet tall and wearing a baseball cap.

Local police released a grainy black-and-white surveillance photograph of one of the alleged bank robbers.

The robbery took place at 3.20pm on Tuesday and the girls were seen leaving on foot and heading for a nearby housing estate.

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From head to toe there is barely a patch of land not blanketed by the heaviest snowfall in 50 years.

It was taken at 11.15am on Thursday by the NASA satellite Terra and transmitted to the University of Dundee Satellite Receiving Station.

The image gives an impression of just how deep with snow has been across most parts, including the southern belt of England: parts of Hampshire received more than 16 inches in just a few hours earlier this week.

Only the western coastal extremes, such as Dorset’s Isle of Purbeck in the south and more surprisingly Jura and Islay in the Inner Hebrides, have escaped widespread coverage.

The picture also demonstrates how little thawing has taken place, as most of the snow lying across lowland parts fell on Tuesday and Wednesday.

That betrays the continuing icy north and north-easterly winds which have ensured temperatures remain low, pulling in sub-zero air from the Arctic and Scandinavia.

Temperatures early on Thursday morning dropped as low as 1F (-17C) in Benson, Oxfordshire, making it as cold as Moscow, while parts of Manchester saw the mercury fall to 5F (-15C). Even central London recorded 27F (-3C).

Up to 8,000 homes across Sussex, Kent, Surrey and Hampshire were left without electricity for hours after the conditions affected power lines.

Plunging temperatures have caused major transport problems as the snow turned to ice, with many councils warning their grit supplies were running low.

Most parts are expected to remain below freezing on Friday, warming only marginally at the weekend.

Life in present-day Dubai is not for the faint-hearted. But for those who fear neither heights nor financial crisis, the Gulf city-state is to offer an entirely new experience: the chance to spend the rest of your days thousands of feet up in the air.

Monday sees the long-awaited opening of the Burj Dubai, not only the world’s tallest building but the world’s tallest building by some 1,000 feet. At 2,683 feet tall, it is the height of the current highest skyscraper, Taipei 101 in Taiwan, with the Eiffel Tower perched on top.

It has been designed so that those who wish to do so will never have to leave, or even descend below the 108th floor, at about 1,300 feet.

That is the height up to which there will be residential apartments. For work, you can nip to the offices upstairs – anywhere up to the 160th floor, in fact. To eat, you can visit the restaurant on the 122nd, and to exercise you can use the gym on the 123rd, about 1,440 feet off the ground.

The gym has both an indoor and, unnervingly, an outdoor swimming pool.

One might fear such a high-flying yet enclosed life would get a little dull. But the tower’s developers have a solution there, at least for the young.

The Burj Dubai is also intending to host the world’s highest nightclub, 20 floors higher still than the gym.

Since ground was broken on the project in January 2004, the tower has inspired huge debate in Dubai which has mirrored the fortunes of the emirate after which it is named.

For the company which built it, Emaar, and the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, it is a “shining accomplishment … an icon of the new Middle East: prosperous, dynamic and successful”.

The purple prose of tourist guidebooks has already had difficulty keeping up with Dubai’s transformation from an oriental souk, with picturesque dish-dasha-clad locals bobbing on the creek in wooden dhows to the world capital of bling. For them, the Burj Dubai has proved a challenge. “Just damn tall,” was the pithy conclusion of The Lonely Planet.

It can hardly be blamed. Burj in Arabic means tower, so that the building, which is set next to the Dubai Mall and the world’s tallest fountain, called the Dubai Fountain, is actually named less than imaginatively “Dubai Tower”.

As the global debt-fuelled property boom came to an end, Dubai’s vision has turned to nightmare and with Dubai’s fall from grace in November after admitting a multi-billion-dollar hole in its finances, the Burj took on a deeper symbolism.

Its sharp spire appeared to “pierce the bubble in the sky”. One commentator compared it to Ozymandias, the poem in which Shelley describes the arrogant wreckage of a long-disappeared empire.

“Outrageous, wasteful, egotistical, ridiculous,” a journalist wrote of the Burj after Dubai asked for a standstill on its debt repayments.

He portrayed its “sneer of cold command” as “thrusting a finger at the outside world even as its Ozymandian surroundings sink beneath the economic waters of the Gulf”.

Whether Dubai’s economy fails or recovers, however, the brute facts will remain: 8 million cubic feet of concrete, 31,000 tons of reinforcing steel, 167,000 square feet of stainless steel cladding, and 1.1 million square feet of double glazing have been mixed together to create a spire visible from 60 miles away across the desert. It will dwarf the new 1,776 ft 1 World Trade Center, also known as “Freedom Tower”, being built on Ground Zero in New York, and is unlikely to be surpassed any time soon. The world recession has not been kind to mega-projects. Emaar’s great rival in Dubai, Nakheel, builder of the Palm Islands, proposed a one-kilometre tall tower in 2008, but has put it on ice while it tries to tackle its multi-billion dollar debts.

As to the Burj’s actual height, that remains officially a secret, which is odd since the developers have already told newspapers it is 818 metres tall, or 2,683 feet.

Also a mystery is who is going to live and work there, which is said to be a matter of client confidentiality. Despite the recession, the developers say it is sold out.

What happens to unlucky acrophobes whose employers suddenly decide to move from a pleasant ground-floor office next to the beach to a look-out perched two and a half thousand feet in the air, Emaar says that, with respect, it is none of their business.

“That is up to the clients,” said a spokesman.

Fearing conditions that could eclipse the deadly Feb 7 Black Saturday fires, in which 173 people died, the authorities have also altered the national alert system so that it can now warn of a new level of “catastrophic” blazes.

Nathan Rees, New South Wales premier, has warned that December to February could be “the highest risk summer that we have ever faced”, with drought, climate change and dry forest undergrowth combining to create perfect fire conditions.

With the new fire season just two weeks away, authorities said they were preparing “neighbourhood safer places” to be ready by November.

The refuges would range from school halls to sports grounds to community halls, and would be required to meet tough fire protection standards, authorities in New South Wales said.

“It’s a place of last resort, a last place that people can go and where we would move trucks and personnel to protect them as fires approached,” said a spokesman for the state’s Rural Fire Service.

The Black Saturday fires, fanned by heat wave conditions and winds topping 70 miles per hour, struck in Victoria and caused the highest ever loss of life from bushfire in the world’s most fire-prone country.

Several towns near the state capital Melbourne were destroyed or severely damaged, and 2,000 people were made homeless.

Victorian authorities and other states have changed their system of alerts for days of “catastrophic” fire danger, warning people in bushfire-prone areas to leave their homes on days of severely hot weather.

It is expected there will be at least one day of the highest possible fire risk in most states this summer.

John Brumby, the Victorian premier, said there “is no house that can be guaranteed to be 100 per cent safe on such a day”.

Joe Jackson, 80, told AFP that the birthday burial at Forest Lawn Cemetery, more than two months after his June 25 death from heart failure, would be a private event.

Authorities are investigating whether prescription drugs played a role in Jackson’s death, and have focused on the role played by his personal physician Conrad Murray.

Dr Murray was present at the time Jackson died and reportedly has admitted prescribing powerful anaesthetics to the singer.

Joe Jackson said he plans to return to Las Vegas immediately after the burial service to attend a charity fundraiser at the Palms Casino Resort.

The event, “Las Vegas celebrates the music of Michael Jackson”, will showcase Las Vegas Strip entertainers singing the star’s greatest hits.

Later that day, the Jackson family patriarch is to receive a celebrity star in his late son’s honour from Brenden Theatres, a cinema at the Palms frequented by Jackson and his three children, Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11, and Prince Michael II, 7.

The theater also has planned a charity screening of the 1988 film “Moonwalker”, a feature film of Jackson concert footage and music video clips, with proceeds going to public school music education programs in Las Vegas.

Telegraph UK

The death toll from the blast and suspected gun attack at the Pearl Continental Hotel late last night was expected to more than double, rescue workers said, as fears grew that a significant number of foreigners could be among the victims.

The attack was the latest in a series of strikes on urban centres in Pakistan in what officials have said are being carried out by Islamic extremists as revenge for a military offensive in the Swat Valley against Taliban insurgents. No one claimed immediate responsibility for the attack.

According to initial reports, the powerful explosion was in the hotel’s car park, demolishing one side of the hotel.

The blast appeared to come from a car bomb, possibly with an attacker inside which rammed into the side of the hotel.

Official sources said the powerful blast was similar to the bomb in Lahore last month, which had some 100kg of explosives, and a crater was visible just next to the building.

There were scenes of chaos around the hotel, with blood and dust-covered guests and workers stumbling out of the hotel. Some foreigners could be seen among them while many other victims were stretchered away by rescue workers.

Emergency services struggled to get to some guests trapped on floors and many people were believed to be still stuck inside the hotel last night. Up to 40 vehicles in the car park were blown apart by the blast.

Abdul Ghafoor Afridi, a senior police official, said: “It was a bomb brought in a vehicle in the garb of hotel supplies.”

Police were investigating some reports that gunfire was heard before the blast, echoing the attacks on Mumbai’s Taj Mahal hotel last November when terrorists ransacked the hotel taking guests hostage before killing them.

Liaqat Ali, a police officer, said he learned from witnesses that three men riding in a truck approached the main gate of the hotel and opened fire at security guards before driving inside.

“They drove the vehicle inside the hotel gates and blew it up on reaching close to the hotel building,” Mr Ali said.

Jawad Chaudhry, who was injured, said he was in his room on the ground floor when he heard gunshots and then a big bang.

“The floor under my feet shook. I thought the roof was falling on me. I ran out. I saw everybody running in panic,” he said. “There was blood and pieces of glass everywhere.”

Peshawar’s sole five-star hotel was a city landmark and was considered the only safe place for foreigners to stay in the volatile city, including diplomats, aid workers and journalists. It was also a major meeting and dining place for Peshawar’s rich and powerful.

A member of parliament and a provincial minister were said to be among the injured. The Pearl Continental, a local luxury chain, had been protected by tight security arrangements.

“This is what you get (for the operation against the Taliban), but we can’t give up,” said Farahnaz Ispahani, a spokesperson for President Asif Zardari.

Telegraph UK