Crossed Out: Inner-City Churches Crumbling Before Our Eyes

You see them in the neighborhoods, stone and mortar giants rising up from rowhomes and rubble. Philadelphia`s innumerable churches seem out of place, beautifully crafted testaments to religious faith surrounded by burned-out shells and boarded-up windows. Looming over the tree at 12th Street and Lehigh Avenue is Cookman United Methodist, an 84-year-old relic.

S.A. Weather and Disaster Information Service, South Africa: 65 .

LATEST: A major research and saving operation is underway in Christchurch tonight as rescuers work frantically to release scores of people trapped in the quake's rubble, as the last toll rises. Today's earthquake in Christchurch has claimed at least 65 lives and dozens more are injured in what Prime Minister John Key says "may easily be New Zealand's darkest day". At least 65 people are dead after the shallow 6.