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  • Oklahoma City faces second deadly tornado in 13 years

    A devastating tornado in the Oklahoma City suburbs in southcentral US, that has killed at least 51 people, including seven children at an elementary school, was second only to one in May 1999 in its fury. The twister 13 years ago, rated a maximum EF5 on the Fujita Tornado Scale, killed 36 people and smashed some of the same communities, according to CNN. On May 3, 1999, a total of 74 tornadoes ...

  • 10 killed as powerful tornado slams Oklahoma City

    At least 10 people were killed as a powerful two-mile-wide tornado slammed Oklahoma City in South Central US ripping roofs off buildings, levelling homes, and cutting a wide path of destruction. Besides the 10 dead, at least 20 more, including eight children, were injured. Injuries ranged from minor to critical. More than 32,000 electricity customers in Oklahoma lost power, according to latest ...

  • Massive tornado jolts Oklahoma City in US

    A gigantic tornado Monday ripped through a suburb of Oklahoma City in the US , destroying a school, sparking fires and flattening homes across whole neighbourhoods. The twister struck about 4.00 p.m. (local time) Monday in Moore city, a suburb of about 55,000 people just south of Oklahoma City in the Oklahoma state. Rescuers were searching for survivors as scores of primary school children ...

  • Massive Tornado Hits Oklahoma Again

    A huge tornado with 320 kilometers-per-hour winds has torn through the central U.S. state of Oklahoma, destroying homes for the second day in a row ...

  • In pictures Oklahoma turnado

    A powerful tornado swept through an Oklahoma City suburb on Monday, tearing down blocks of homes and at least two schools and leaving at least 51 people dead, local officials told US ...

Movie Review

Jeepers Creepers

Despite the snicker-inducing silliness of its titlewhich is taken from Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren's '30s-era tune for plot-related reasons that are notably strainedVictor Salva's Jeepers Creepers is actually a grimly effective horror movie ... for the first half hour. The set-up, which involves a brother and sister terrorized on their drive home from college for spring break, is simple ... ...

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