Franky Quintana, a pitcher for the Cuban national team, has escaped communism and slavery to the Castro dictatorship, defecting during the Fifth Caribbean Baseball Cup in Puerto Rico. Quintana adds to the mass exodus of Cuban sports competitors, becoming the 51st Cuban athlete to defect this year. Via CubaNet (my translation): Baseball player Franky Quintana
Ahmed, 80, is alive today because minutes before the quake he went out to scare away the wild boar in his orchard. In his village of 500 inhabitants, 37 people were killed
Environmental group BAN Toxics and Toro Hills Elementary School (THES) in Quezon City launched the Toxic-Free and Waste-Free Brigada Eskwela as the Department