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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

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• April 10: Residents that live close to the sinkhole, that killed three people and swallowed about a dozen homes are worried about more slides as the rainy season approaches.
• April 10: A fireman is surrounded by cardboard and paper products while fighting a fire at Tupelo Recycling in Tupelo Miss.
• April 10: Police officers arrive to strengthen security after a third explosion in the working-class Hay Farah neighborhood of Casablanca, Morocco.
• April 10: Police and officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives find a cache of ammunition and ordnance while serving a drug warrant at a house in Salisbury, Mass.
• April 10: Police and supporters clashes before Manchester United and Roma's Champions League quarter final, second-leg soccer match at Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, England.
• April 10: Folk dancers perform the traditional Chinese dragon dance during the opening ceremony of the Henan Peony Festival in Luoyang, Chinas central Henan Province. The dancers will attempt to break a Guinness world record with a 5,056-meter-long handmade dragon.
• April 10: Indian Railway police personnel show bullfrogs which were recovered during a routine check keep in a container at the New Gauhati railway outpost in Gauhati, India. More than 100 bullfrogs were recovered while being smuggled from Assam to South East Asian countries, police said.
• April 10: Flower bulb growers move irrigation equipment through rows of tulips near the village of Kaag, some 25 kilometers from Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• April 10: New England's first zero-emission fuel cell-powered hybrid bus made its debut today in Hartford, the capital of Connecticut. The fuel cell power system was produced by Connecticut-based UTC Power. The only emission from a fuel cell-powered bus is water vapor.
• April 10: Conductor Michael Schreiber stands by an authentic 1922 New Orleans streetcar, named Desire, as it sits on display on 44th Street near Times Square Tuesday in New York. The streetcar, which was restored in Connecticut and was not in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, is on a worldwide, multi-city media tour to promote tourism in New Orleans.
• April 10: East Timorese fisherman haul in their net in Dili. Election officials say the presidential elections may require a second round of voting, setting the stage for prolonged instability in the young nation.
• April 10: A young Special Olympic swimmer takes part in a swim clinic with American champion Michael Phelps, not in picture, at a school in Beijing.
• April 10: Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass, left, and Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, right, examine a 3,200-year-old sample of hair from the pharaoh Ramses II during its unveiling at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
• April 10: Boxer Nikolai Valuev from Russia, current WBA heavyweight world champion, trains in Stuttgart, Germany, for his bout with Ruslan Chagaev of Uzbekistan.
• April 10: Students check their classroom after a rocket landed at a schoolyard in eastern Baghdad, Iraq. A Katushya rocket hit a basketball court at the boys school in eastern Baghdad, killing a 6-year-old boy and wounding 15 students and two teachers, police said.
• April 10: Sri Lankan investigators inspect the wreckage of a bus at the site of an accident in Induruwa, about 40 miles south of Colombo. The passenger bus collided with a beer delivery truck and burst into flames in southern Sri Lanka, killing at least 22 people and injuring 56.
• April 10: The Russian Proton-M rocket carrying the Canadian Anik F3 telecommunication satellite blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Russian booster rocket launched the satellite, which weighs 10,140 pounds and will supply telephone and Internet services and transmit television and radio signals across Canada and the United States.