Indonesia may be looking at a catastrophe as a huge tsunami-generating earthquake is possibly expected to hit the city of Padang and the island of Sumatra.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Fed up with violence and economic hardship, voters in the deeply conservative northwest have thrown out the Islamist parties that ruled this province for five years -- a clear sign that Pakistanis are rejecting religious extremism in a region where al-Qaida and the Taliban have sought refuge.

Text of report in English by Japan's largest news agency Kyodo Jakarta, Feb. 20 Kyodo - An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 struck off the northwest coast of Indonesia's Sumatra Island on Wednesday afternoon, killing 3 people, injuring 25 and damaging buildings, officials said. Rustam S.

At least three people died and 25 others were injured Wednesday when a major earthquake rocked western Indonesia, officials said. The U.S.

A 2005 earthquake off the coast of Indonesia raised an island nearly four feet out of the water, causing one of the biggest coral die-offs recorded, scientists said Friday.