Dear CT and CSF, Today, at about 11:00am our time or 8:00pm on Christmasnightin Portland, a lot of Southeast Asia was hit with an 8.9 earthquake and resulting tsunami.
Patriarch Kirill congratulated Russian President Dmitry Medvedev when they met at a Christmas Eve service in Moscow's Christ The Saviour Cathedral on Friday night.
On another occasion, shortly before Christmas, the busiest time of the year, a burglar broke in during the night, smashed display cabinets and stole thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry.