Desperate Venezuelans battled Thursday to rescue loved ones trapped alive beneath the rubble of collapsed buildings after two major earthquakes that killed at least 164 people. Buildings cracked and crumbled and residents fled into the streets after the quakes, which the United States Geological Survey measured as magnitude 7.2 and 7.5, hit northern Venezuela within a minute of each other. PICS/AFP

hree people died Friday at a police training facility in Los Angeles, the US government said, with media reports saying there had been an accidental explosion. pics/AFP