Bolivia A squadron of 700 police officers descended on a mob of nearly 5,000 rural teachers. Teachers, miners and health workers are demanding a higher wage increase than the 10 percent offered by the government. The demonstrations started last week in La Paz and have now spread to all nine of Bolivia s departments as the Bolivian Workers Central group, the country s largest umbrella union, called for a strike to demand higher wage increases to offset rising consumer prices. The rural teachers and the working class who were once adamant supporters of President Evo Morales and helped him come to power as the country s first indigenous leader in 2002 are now starting to call his leadership into question.
Royal wedding The princess-to-be and her family will stay at Goring Hotel ahead of the royal wedding. London s only 5 star family-run hotel will host Kate Middleton on her last night as an unmarried woman and commoner. Middleton s close family including her mother Carole and sister Pippa, her maid of honour, will also stay at the luxury family-owned Goring hotel in central London the night before the wedding. She will stay in the hotel s most opulent suite, which opened in 1910. The Goring had recently spent 150,000 pounds ($245,400) giving the top-floor apartment a makeover ahead of her stay.
United States Three days of severe storms and tornadoes in the southern United States have killed at least 39 people, downing power lines and wrecking hundreds of buildings along its path, officials said on Sunday. North Carolina accounted for the bulk of casualties and property losses, with 22 people killed and more than 80 others injured. Significant damage was reported in at least 15 counties and power was out to more than 200,000 people. Seven people died as a result of the storms in Alabama, seven died in Arkansas and one died in Mississippi, and two people were killed in Oklahoma when a tornado flattened buildings. It appeared to be the deadliest U.S. storm since February 2008, when 57 people died from tornadoes in the south and Ohio Valley, said AccuWeather.com meteorologist Andy Mussoline, who said the 39 death roll may change. "I would expect that total to rise, unfortunately," Mussoline said. The storms began in Oklahoma on Thursday and then moved through the South and hit the East Coast by Saturday. There were 241 tornadoes reported, with 50 confirmed.
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