The French government has created a smartphone app designed to send warnings directly to people's phones in the event of a bombing, shooting or other disaster.
Subsequent airline tragedies would be given closer attention as a result, but the next disaster – the shooting down of MH-17 over Ukraine – had its own compelling angle in the form of Vladmir Putin and Russia's unconvincing conspiracy theories.
A department official said Friday that the social network monitoring program did not produce reports about public opinion, but instead focused exclusively on monitoring crises like hazardous material spills, shooting incidents and natural disasters.
He had inherited his own set, North Korea, on which to shoot his own disaster movie: small fat man, with nuclear capability and supreme indifference to the fate of his own people, runs rings round world.To many, the plot seemed absurd.
And then the filmmakers kept shooting, recording tales of survival and disaster.
A jury took three days to find David Warren guilty of shooting Henry Glover, 31, shortly after the disaster which had left four-fifths of the city under water.
So I was halfway through shooting the picture and this person tells me that my movie's a disaster, and I am a disaster, and it's over.
In the experiment, which was conducted for the independent board investigating the shuttle disaster, researchers shot a 1.67-pound chunk of foam from a gas cannon at a full-size model of the wing's leading edge at about 530 miles per hour.
Hours after the disaster, rumors shot across the capital city like the discharge of automatic weapons: The crash was the work of drug traffickers showing who was boss in this nation of 110 million souls.
I'm also in the middle of shooting this one in Florida, and I feel personally like it's a disaster.
