Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/3069 world Charity and Volunteering en-us Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:36:56 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/3069 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100206/ap_on_re_us/us_haiti_donations_logjam ap/20100206/us_haiti_donations_logjam AP us Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:36:56 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100206/ap_on_re_us/us_haiti_donations_logjam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100206/capt.8685b232b479469887fdd2b95b6371e5.haiti_donations_logjam_fljc101.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=X8yvVFvaQ5sDu5EjnYp_5A--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="In this Feb. 4, 2010 photo, stacks of boxed donated goods are stored at the Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church in Miami. More than three weeks after the earthquake, donated goods are accumulating at small charities, sitting in shipping limbo because of costs and a complex web of transportation logistics. The heaps of donations are evidence that many people ignored the advice to just give cash. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)" border="0" /></a>AP - Cases of bottled water and cardboard boxes full of blue jeans, diapers and cans of tuna are piled several feet high in Ruth Estriplet's living room. The charity worker doesn't want to stack anything above her head so she can see what's in the boxes.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100206/ap_on_re_us/us_haiti_donations_logjam"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100206/capt.8685b232b479469887fdd2b95b6371e5.haiti_donations_logjam_fljc101.jpg?x=130&y=78&q=85&sig=X8yvVFvaQ5sDu5EjnYp_5A--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this Feb. 4, 2010 photo, stacks of boxed donated goods are stored at the Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church in Miami. More than three weeks after the earthquake, donated goods are accumulating at small charities, sitting in shipping limbo because of costs and a complex web of transportation logistics. The heaps of donations are evidence that many people ignored the advice to just give cash. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/us_nm/us_hunger_usa nm/20100202/us_hunger_usa Reuters us Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:05:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/us_nm/us_hunger_usa"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100202/i/r3484122872.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=CdmzNaH8HVFO1YAvpb3rGQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="A man eats a free meal at the Community Kitchen in the Harlem section of New York City December 10, 2008. REUTERS/Mike Segar" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The number of Americans receiving emergency food from the largest U.S. hunger-relief charity and its partners rose 46 percent from 2005 to 2009, according to a report released on Tuesday.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/us_nm/us_hunger_usa"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100202/i/r3484122872.jpg?x=130&y=84&q=85&sig=CdmzNaH8HVFO1YAvpb3rGQ--" align="left" height="84" width="130" alt="photo" title="A man eats a free meal at the Community Kitchen in the Harlem section of New York City December 10, 2008. REUTERS/Mike Segar" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100201/ts_alt_afp/haitiquake afp/20100201/haitiquake AFP us Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:28:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100201/ts_alt_afp/haitiquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100201/capt.photo_1265025565611-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=.51AMStyoq1Mq.iOKiqv5A--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="Some 33 Haitian children, pictured, have been stopped from crossing the border into the Dominican Republic. Police in Haiti are holding 10 American missionaries on child trafficking charges, after they allegedly tried to take the children out of the country.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Haitian police detained 10 members of a US Christian charity group after they allegedly tried to leave the country with more than 30 children who survived the country's devastating earthquake.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100201/ts_alt_afp/haitiquake"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100201/capt.photo_1265025565611-2-0.jpg?x=130&y=87&q=85&sig=.51AMStyoq1Mq.iOKiqv5A--" align="left" height="87" width="130" alt="photo" title="Some 33 Haitian children, pictured, have been stopped from crossing the border into the Dominican Republic. Police in Haiti are holding 10 American missionaries on child trafficking charges, after they allegedly tried to take the children out of the country.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_re_us/us_children_swept_away ap/20100201/us_children_swept_away AP us Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:31:51 GMT AP - Volunteers have found the body of a young girl near Border Field State Park in the San Diego area, and authorities are investigating whether she was one of two children swept away 11 days ago by a rain-swollen Tijuana creek. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_on_re_us/us_nasa_flag9_11_museum ap/20100128/us_nasa_flag9_11_museum AP us Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:55:02 GMT AP - An astronaut is donating an American flag that traveled aboard the NASA space shuttle Atlantis to New York City in honor of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100128/ap_on_re_us/us_campaign_web_trick ap/20100128/us_campaign_web_trick AP us Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:55:37 GMT AP - A Wyoming gubernatorial candidate has cut ties with a volunteer who used a bit of online trickery to misdirect people trying to visit her opponent's Web site. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_on_re_us/us_car_in_pond ap/20100127/us_car_in_pond AP us Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:08:30 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_on_re_us/us_car_in_pond"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100127/capt.fb24b4601800499b89a4817861914d37.correction_car_in_pond_paks110.jpg?x=130&y=129&q=85&sig=RrfQQ8OwekH3KOOLuiMYsg--" align="left" height="129" width="130" alt="Zelienople firefighter Spencer Mathew is consoled by a fellow firefighter as he talks during a news conference at the fire department about the two friends and colleagues that were found dead earlier, in Zelienople, Pa., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Two teenage volunteer firefighters had been recovered from a vehicle found submerged in a pond earlier in Zelienople, Pa., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Divers also recovered the third body. Officials have identified the firefighters as 18-year-olds, Elijah Lunsford and Sam Bucci. Police identified the third victim as 17-year-old Trevor Barkley. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)" border="0" /></a>AP - Two teenage volunteer firefighters who were reported missing after they didn't show up for a training drill for their small-town department died along with a friend when their SUV slid off a slick road and into an icy western Pennsylvania pond.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_on_re_us/us_car_in_pond"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100127/capt.fb24b4601800499b89a4817861914d37.correction_car_in_pond_paks110.jpg?x=130&y=129&q=85&sig=RrfQQ8OwekH3KOOLuiMYsg--" align="left" height="129" width="130" alt="photo" title="Zelienople firefighter Spencer Mathew is consoled by a fellow firefighter as he talks during a news conference at the fire department about the two friends and colleagues that were found dead earlier, in Zelienople, Pa., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Two teenage volunteer firefighters had been recovered from a vehicle found submerged in a pond earlier in Zelienople, Pa., Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. Divers also recovered the third body. Officials have identified the firefighters as 18-year-olds, Elijah Lunsford and Sam Bucci. Police identified the third victim as 17-year-old Trevor Barkley. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100127/ts_alt_afp/lifestylecubausartpeople afp/20100127/lifestylecubausartpeople AFP us Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:08:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100127/ts_alt_afp/lifestylecubausartpeople"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100127/capt.photo_1264604467504-1-0.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=qPCVBXBsPw1v3MSg2G.IIA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt=""Femme au Chapeau Vert" by Pablo Picasso is on display during a preview of Sotheby's impressionist and modern art sale in New York in 2009. US philanthropist Gilbert Brownstone has donated 120 works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp and five other leading artists to Cuba's National Museum of Fine Art.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)" border="0" /></a>AFP - US philanthropist Gilbert Brownstone has donated 120 works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp and five other leading artists to Cuba's National Museum of Fine Art.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100127/ts_alt_afp/lifestylecubausartpeople"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100127/capt.photo_1264604467504-1-0.jpg?x=95&y=130&q=85&sig=qPCVBXBsPw1v3MSg2G.IIA--" align="left" height="130" width="95" alt="photo" title=""Femme au Chapeau Vert" by Pablo Picasso is on display during a preview of Sotheby's impressionist and modern art sale in New York in 2009. US philanthropist Gilbert Brownstone has donated 120 works by Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp and five other leading artists to Cuba's National Museum of Fine Art.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AFP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100126/ap_on_re_us/us_guatemala_portillo ap/20100126/us_guatemala_portillo AP us Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:42:37 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100126/ap_on_re_us/us_guatemala_portillo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100125/capt.c8a7beeffd36449c84e451c0b0b1f79e.guatemala_portillo_ny132.jpg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=knd.oHHGs7Cba6ae1ABKLQ--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 picture, a police officer, unseen, takes a photo of former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo Cabrera after being extradited from Mexico to face corruption charges in Guatemala City. The former Guatemalan president was charged in the United States on Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 with using foreign banks to launder millions of dollars plundered from charity and government coffers. Portillo was Guatemala's leader from 2000 to 2004 before fleeing to Mexico. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)" border="0" /></a>AP - Alfonso Portillo, the fugitive former president of Guatemala, was charged in the United States on Monday with using foreign banks to launder millions of dollars plundered from charity and government coffers.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100126/ap_on_re_us/us_guatemala_portillo"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100125/capt.c8a7beeffd36449c84e451c0b0b1f79e.guatemala_portillo_ny132.jpg?x=93&y=130&q=85&sig=knd.oHHGs7Cba6ae1ABKLQ--" align="left" height="130" width="93" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2008 picture, a police officer, unseen, takes a photo of former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo Cabrera after being extradited from Mexico to face corruption charges in Guatemala City. The former Guatemalan president was charged in the United States on Monday, Jan. 25, 2010 with using foreign banks to launder millions of dollars plundered from charity and government coffers. Portillo was Guatemala's leader from 2000 to 2004 before fleeing to Mexico. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100124/ap_on_re_us/us_haiti_earthquake_small_town ap/20100124/us_haiti_earthquake_small_town AP us Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:43:01 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100124/ap_on_re_us/us_haiti_earthquake_small_town"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100122/capt.afbf2df8c3724857b8ac76dbdbe5b9aa.haitian_earthquake_mass_nysc101.jpg?x=130&y=67&q=85&sig=MMRauPCoimPKpF36cty8VQ--" align="left" height="67" width="130" alt="Congregation members pray during a Mass remembering the victims of the Haitian earthquake in Spring Valley, N.Y. Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010.(AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)" border="0" /></a>AP - At a money-transfer booth tucked into a dusty TV repair shop, Haitians carrying thin envelopes of $5 and $10 bills clamored to send funds to their devastated families back home. But the computer connection to the earthquake-stricken Haitian capital was down again.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100124/ap_on_re_us/us_haiti_earthquake_small_town"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100122/capt.afbf2df8c3724857b8ac76dbdbe5b9aa.haitian_earthquake_mass_nysc101.jpg?x=130&y=67&q=85&sig=MMRauPCoimPKpF36cty8VQ--" align="left" height="67" width="130" alt="photo" title="Congregation members pray during a Mass remembering the victims of the Haitian earthquake in Spring Valley, N.Y. Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010.(AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100121/ap_on_re_us/us_haiti_us_donations ap/20100121/us_haiti_us_donations AP us Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:44:16 GMT AP - Donations to U.S. charities for Haiti earthquake relief are outpacing donations from the days after the Asian tsunami in 2004 but haven't kept up with the outpouring of gifts following Hurricane Katrina. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100121/us_nm/us_quake_haiti_shelter nm/20100121/us_quake_haiti_shelter Reuters us Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:54:35 GMT Reuters - Home-building charity Habitat for Humanity hopes to erect thousands of expandable one-room houses to shelter Haitians left homeless by a devastating earthquake, the group's chief executive said on Thursday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100121/ap_on_re_us/us_philanthropist_fraud ap/20100121/us_philanthropist_fraud AP us Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:05:41 GMT AP - Philanthropist Alberto Vilar is begging a New York court for mercy before his sentencing for conspiracy fraud, saying he's too sick for prison. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100120/ap_on_re_us/us_usc_donation ap/20100120/us_usc_donation AP us Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:07:42 GMT AP - The University of Southern California dental school has something to smile about. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100119/us_nm/us_security_guantanamo_deaths nm/20100119/us_security_guantanamo_deaths Reuters us Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:23:09 GMT Reuters - The Obama administration has failed to properly investigate evidence suggesting suicides by two Saudis and a Yemeni held at Guantanamo Bay in 2006 were "homicides", a UK-based legal charity said on Tuesday. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100118/ap_on_re_us/us_mayors_volunteerism ap/20100118/us_mayors_volunteerism AP us Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:18:58 GMT AP - There's a new effort to increase volunteerism in cities nationwide. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100115/ap_on_re_us/us_haiti_quake_americans ap/20100115/us_haiti_quake_americans AP us Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:36:20 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100115/ap_on_re_us/us_haiti_quake_americans"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100115/capt.1c94a2ba3d674cca93119de5ff3c1588.haiti_quake_americans_njme103.jpg?x=130&y=104&q=85&sig=XYV8Tq9E3mkI6pyKrUAejA--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="Mirlene Jacob, 27, of Philadelphia, Pa., talks about the earthquake as she stands on crutches Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, at McGuire Air Force Base in Wrightstown, N.J., after three military cargo planes flew 259 Americans from earthquake-ravaged Haiti to McGuire. Jacob said she had arrived in Haiti approximately 15 minutes before an earthquake struck and was hurt jumping from a damaged building. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)" border="0" /></a>AP - More than 240 U.S. citizens who were in Haiti for tourism, business or charity when the Caribbean nation's devastating earthquake struck arrived back on American soil Friday, delivered to New Jersey by military aircraft.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100115/ap_on_re_us/us_haiti_quake_americans"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100115/capt.1c94a2ba3d674cca93119de5ff3c1588.haiti_quake_americans_njme103.jpg?x=130&y=104&q=85&sig=XYV8Tq9E3mkI6pyKrUAejA--" align="left" height="104" width="130" alt="photo" title="Mirlene Jacob, 27, of Philadelphia, Pa., talks about the earthquake as she stands on crutches Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, at McGuire Air Force Base in Wrightstown, N.J., after three military cargo planes flew 259 Americans from earthquake-ravaged Haiti to McGuire. Jacob said she had arrived in Haiti approximately 15 minutes before an earthquake struck and was hurt jumping from a damaged building. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100115/us_nm/us_quake_haiti_scams nm/20100115/us_quake_haiti_scams Reuters us Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:59:15 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100115/us_nm/us_quake_haiti_scams"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100115/i/r1366718618.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=OaYlKAdSA5uzjFxNO27WbQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="An injured man in a wheelchair looks at the collapsed Haitian Governmental taxation building in Port au Prince, in this United Nations handout taken and released on January 14, 2010. REUTERS/Logan Abassi/UN Photo/Handout" border="0" /></a>Reuters - U.S. law-enforcement agencies and charity watchdogs have warned that con artists may use Haiti-relief scams to take advantage of an outpouring of generosity after the Haitian earthquake to steal cash and sensitive financial information from potential donors.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100115/us_nm/us_quake_haiti_scams"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/rids/20100115/i/r1366718618.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=OaYlKAdSA5uzjFxNO27WbQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="An injured man in a wheelchair looks at the collapsed Haitian Governmental taxation building in Port au Prince, in this United Nations handout taken and released on January 14, 2010. REUTERS/Logan Abassi/UN Photo/Handout" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (Reuters) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100115/ap_on_re_us/us_haiti_crippled_charities ap/20100115/us_haiti_crippled_charities AP us Fri, 15 Jan 2010 01:14:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100115/ap_on_re_us/us_haiti_crippled_charities"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100114/capt.486413a319564bada7007f97b70768d6.philippines_haiti_earthquake_mla801.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=H2K4vmXI8QkvBZQsg3uJlQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, and released by the Philippine Mission to the United Nations, members of the 10th Philippine Peacekeeping Contingent serving with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) help in search and rescue efforts at the collapsed U.N. headquarters in Port-au-Prince, where a number of staff members and peacekeepers, including three from the Philippines, remain trapped more than a day after a powerful earthquake struck the capital city. (AP Photo/United Nations, Marco Dormino)" border="0" /></a>AP - Haiti's limitless poverty and hardship have long drawn aid groups and charities from across the world. Now the same people who tried to do good before the earthquake find themselves trapped in the rubble, out of touch with their loved ones and struggling to carry on their missions.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100115/ap_on_re_us/us_haiti_crippled_charities"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100114/capt.486413a319564bada7007f97b70768d6.philippines_haiti_earthquake_mla801.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=H2K4vmXI8QkvBZQsg3uJlQ--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="In this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, and released by the Philippine Mission to the United Nations, members of the 10th Philippine Peacekeeping Contingent serving with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) help in search and rescue efforts at the collapsed U.N. headquarters in Port-au-Prince, where a number of staff members and peacekeepers, including three from the Philippines, remain trapped more than a day after a powerful earthquake struck the capital city. (AP Photo/United Nations, Marco Dormino)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/charity/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100115/ap_on_re_us/us_odd_kodiak_bomb ap/20100115/us_odd_kodiak_bomb AP us Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:38:34 GMT AP - A World War II relic that was displayed outside an Alaska bar for years turned out not to be a dud.