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New York and New Jersey declared major disaster areas as Superstorm Sandy death toll reaches 84 .

Despite the chaos of Sandy, social media users have flooded cyberspace with images parodying the storm.

Mitt Romney become the target of Twitter mockery under the hashtag #RomneyStormTips as Deomcrats savaged his plans to break-up the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Pro-democracy activists and Bahraini opposition claims government move is "against international human rights"

South Carolina mother caught on tape smoking pot with her toddler on her lap before letting the kid smoke the drug too.

South African police have yet again fired on miners working for the world's largest platinum producer who are protesting over jobs and pay, but this time they used rubber bullets.

The Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright involved in a verbal altercation with pro-Serb activists.

Tehran's top diplomat says Iran has been holding talks with the Syrian government and the rebels in an aim to solve the 19-month-long conflict.

New York Stock Exchange stays closed as record flooding hit lower Manhattan.

Amnesty International has detected a worrying new trend of oppression and a clamp down of free speech in Communist-run Vietnam after two songwriters, Tran Vu Anh Binh and Vo Minh Tri, were both convicted by a court in Ho Chi Minh City.

Both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have decided to focus on relief measures rather than on election campaign.

All forms of protest have been banned in Bahrain. The government has imposed the emergency rules in light of the escalating violence. Rulers in the Gulf Kingdom are also threatening legal action against any group that backs demonstrations or clashes.

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission declares alert at Oyster Creek nuclear power plant after Frankenstorm Sandy makes landfall.

Super-storm Sandy causes severe flooding in lower Manhattan leaving up to three million people without electricity.

Sandy lashes into southern New Jersey with winds of 85mph.

Meteorologist predict landfall any minute, with Atlantic City already flooded and 600,000 people without electricity.

BBC3 documentary follows gay men in US who say they are being treated to become heterosexual.

Flooded gambling hub is first city to be affected by huge approaching storm.

Hudson River bursts banks and floodwaters rise in deserted city streets as Frankenstorm nears.

Extreme weather is God's revenge on sinful America, says anti-gay chaplain.

Airports and airlines cancelling hundreds of flights to and from America's eastern seaboard because of 'Frankenstorm'.

High court quashes Australian government bid to extradite 91-year-old man from Perth accused of killing Jewish man in Budapest on November 1944.

Fears grow for safety of missing 12-year-old lost in storm after discovery of shoe and damaged bicycle.

Brazil's attorney general says Migliorini should be deported back to home country and have visa revoked for prostitution.

Russian carrier Amurskoe disappears in a storm in the Sea of Okhotsk.

Sea school sailing ship in trouble after being battered by Hurricane Sandy in 20ft seas off North Carolina coast.

Iran says pictures were transmitted by Hezbollah drone before it was shot down by Israeli forces.

North Korea threatens military action if anti-dictatorship leaflets are dropped across border.

US east coast landfall imminent by storm described as potential worst to hit US.