Alan Yuhas

3 weeks ago | idahostatesman.com | Sui-Lee Wee |Alan Yuhas

BANGKOK — The official death toll of the earthquake that shattered central Myanmar surpassed 1,600 people, the country’s military leaders said Saturday, as desperate rescue workers raced to find survivors and began grappling with a monumental disaster in a nation already wracked by civil war.

3 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Sui-Lee Wee |Alan Yuhas

BANGKOK — The official death toll of the earthquake that shattered central Myanmar surpassed 1,600 people, the country’s military leaders said Saturday, as desperate rescue workers raced to find survivors and began grappling with a monumental disaster in a nation already wracked by civil war.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Sui-Lee Wee |Alan Yuhas

At hospitals, many others were left in a kind of purgatory, dealing with their own injuries and fearing for the fate of their loved ones. Tay Zar Lin had been picking mangoes when the ground started shaking on Friday and he fell, breaking his leg. He reached a hospital, where he could not see a doctor until Saturday morning. He then discovered that his wife was still trapped inside the tailor shop where she worked, he said. "I pray that yesterday morning wasn't the last time I saw her," he said.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Alan Yuhas

Torn, folded, stitchedm and bound into a book of property records from the 1500s, rare tales of Merlin shapeshifting into King Arthur’s court and Sir Gawain gaining power from the sun had gone unnoticed for centuries, stacked among the records of an English manor and then among the millions of volumes of a university library.

3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Alan Yuhas

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and used advanced technology to reveal its contents. Torn, folded, stitched and bound into a book of property records from the 1500s, rare tales of Merlin shapeshifting into King Arthur's court and Sir Gawain gaining power from the sun had gone unnoticed for centuries, stacked among the records of an English manor and then among the millions of volumes of a university library.