As the school day was ending, parents in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore were forced to make an impossible calculation – rush to schools to gather up their children and risk being caught in the open, or trust that the reinforced walls of the school buildings would shelter them.
Sarah Johnson was forced to rush from her home in Moore to a nearby hospital as the storm raged when her four-year-old daughter, Shellbie, suffered an asthma attack.
As the school day was ending, parents in Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City, were forced to make an impossible calculation - rush to schools to gather up their children and risk being caught in the open, or trust that the reinforced walls of the school buildings would shelter them.
Prime Minister David Cameron has been forced to rely on opposition support to rescue his same-sex marriage legislation from defeat in the House of Commons.
As a massive tornado tore through Moore, Oklahoma, on Monday afternoon, a news helicopter belonging to KFOR, the NBC-affiliated television station nearby, tracked it the whole time, providing a visual exclamation point for the meteorologists who were warning residents to seek shelter.
The debate in Britain over legalising gay marriage took a surreal turn on Tuesday after a senior politician said it could result in a lesbian queen giving birth to an heir by artificial insemination.
As night descended on the scenes of destruction in Oklahoma City, rescue workers continued to search for survivors of a massive tornado responsible for more then 50 deaths.
The tornado that slammed into the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing more than 50 people with winds up to 320 kilometres per hour, was given a preliminary ranking of EF4, the second most powerful category on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
Not one, but two queens have given the thumbs up to Australia's entry in the Chelsea Flower Show in London.
British Prime Minister David Cameron's flagship gay marriage policy deepened a rift in his own party on Monday after many of his own MPs defied him in a sign of growing strains on his leadership and his coalition government.
Northern Tablelands voters are back at the polling booths to elect a new state MP.
WITH the Northern Tablelands byelection only one sleep away, have your say about who you plan on voting ...
SPORTUNE played host to some of the state's best young footballers.
