The strong earthquake which struck Chile on Feb 28  did more than $30 billion in damage to the South American nation’s economy, until now, there are over 800 death reported, according to the risk management assessment firm data.

The earthquake damaged off the coast of southern Chile amounts to between 10% and 15% of the nation’s gross domestic product.

About 55% to 65% of the damage is believed to be to residential structures, with 20% to 30% done to commercial buildings and 15% to 20% done to industrial facilities, according to EQECAT.

Most parts of Chile still were without water service and electricity now because of  the 8.8-magnitude earthquake.

NBC’s Olympics site will feature a number of live streams, but it was a little more difficult to access them. However, the games live video coverage are available on other sites.

Here we got a list of top 5 place to watch the 2010 Winter Olympic games live Online.

No 1, the official site – NBC Olympics, It will stream around 400 hours live from Vancouver.

No 2, Nbcolympics for Mobile users will feature daily highlights of the events.

No3, http://www.ustream.tv, it will perform a Live transmission from Vancouver.

No 4, Yahoo Sports also offers a lot of news coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics game.

No 5, Justin.tv is having a daily live broadcast with two injuried US Ski team members.

In order to watch your favorite games in time, here is the 2010 Olympics Competition Schedule for you refer to.

Finally, the Youtube video will be available soon after the matches, we’ll do it ASAP.

Enjoy the 2010 Winter Olympics games live video.

Haitian earthquake live videos

As the scope of the disaster began to come into focus, offers of help began pouring in. The United Kingdom and the United States, Belize, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, France, Guyana, Iceland, Japan, Morocco, the Netherlands, Russia, Spain, were among the countries offering aid.

The video of death in Haiti Earthquake

As the world looks for ways to help the victims of Haiti’s earthquake, the FBI is now warning that there are also those who are looking for opportunities set up scams surrounding the latest disaster relief efforts.

The FBI advises that people should be very skeptical of any unsolicited appeals they receive or find on the Internet.

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Russia’s space agency chief said Wednesday a spacecraft may be dispatched to knock a large asteroid off course and reduce the chances of earth impact, even though U.S. scientists say such a scenario is unlikely.

Further studies have ruled out the possibility of an impact in 2029, when the asteroid is expected to come no closer than 18,300 miles (29,450 kilometers) from Earth’s surface, but they indicated a small possibility of a hit on subsequent encounters.

NASA had put the chances that Apophis could hit Earth in 2036 as 1-in-45,000. In October, after researchers recalculated the asteroid’s path, the agency changed its estimate to 1-in-250,000.

NASA said another close encounter in 2068 will involve a 1-in-330,000 chance of impact.

Don Yeomans, who heads NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program, said better calculations of Apophis’ path in several years “will almost certainly remove any possibility of an Earth collision” in 2036.

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Local military said, 45 hostages have been killed beheaded to deat at present, most women were raped and murdered.

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo expressed strong anger, ordered to hunt down the murderer at all costs.

When shoppers searched for an item Saturday, the site returned limited or no results.

Some shoppers found a blank page; some received a message that said, “We were unable to run the search results you entered. Please try again in a few minutes.”

The company said it had resolved the problems by Sunday.

“We are happy to report that critical search functionality was restored overnight on Saturday, and we are seeing normal activity levels today,” eBay Marketplace Operations President Lorrie Norrington said Sunday in a statement.

The company’s Web site offered various scenarios under which sellers could be compensated, including those with auctions that ended Saturday.

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Time Warner, November 16, said that America Online will be split out on December 9, end the nine-year mergers and acquisitions.

Who’s the America Online?

American Online is the U.S. subsidiary of Time Warner, the famous Internet service provider. 2000 America Online and Time Warner announced plans to merge, January 11, 2001 The Federal Trade Commission confirmed this transactions.

The operation of the merger and subsequent information, see Time Warner.

The report is likely to turn up pressure on lawmakers and the president, who earlier this month enacted a record-long extension of federally paid benefits. But the law only helps those who exhaust their lifelines by year’s end.

jobless benefits

As it stands now, the deadline to apply for federally paid benefits is Dec. 31. So while unemployment benefits now run as long as 99 weeks, depending on the state, not everyone will receive checks for that long a stretch.

“Congress has less than four weeks left on its schedule to legislate this year, and unless it acts to renew the unemployment provisions during this period, the clock will run out for a million workers,” said Christine Owens, executive director for the National Employment Law Project.

Those who run out of their 26 weeks of state-paid coverage in 2010 will not receive any additional benefits. The jobless currently receiving extended federal benefits, which are divided into tiers, will stop getting checks once they complete their tier.

In addition, come Jan. 1, workers will no longer receive the $25 boost in benefits or be able to apply for a 65% subsidy to continue their company health insurance coverage under the Cobra program. These benefits, along with the Dec. 31 deadline, are part of the $787 billion stimulus program passed in February.

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They were joined from Europe by Greece and Slovenia, while the African playoff saw Algeria beat Egypt 1-0 in a dramatic match in Khartoum.

The tournament already promises to be the greatest ever, with top teams of the caliber of Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, England, the Netherlands, Ivory Coast and Ghana sealing their places previously.

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