Sandy was expected to affect up to 60 million people when it meets two other powerful winter storms.

The incidents followed a three-day lull since an upsurge in violence last week in which Israel killed at least four Gaza militants.

Authorities had put security measures in place to try to prevent attacks over the four-day holiday of Eid al-Adha.

A curious Hobbit journeys to Lonely Mountain with a group of Dwarves to reclaim a treasure stolen from them by a dragon.

The search and rescue operation is complicated by a severe storm at the scene of a possible shipwreck.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake hit the Queen Charlotte Islands just after 8 p.m. local time October 27 at a depth of 5 kilometers.

Half of seats in the parliament will be filled by elected parties on candidate list basis, the other half will be filled by individual candidates.

Iran's military regularly announces defense and engineering developments though some analysts are skeptical of the reliability of such reports.