When a 14-year-old boy from Atlanta, Georgia disappeared earlier this year, his mother turned to her smartphone for clues using an app called Family Tracker that helped track his location.
In 1959, when I was seven years old, my father went missing under mysterious circumstances; several weeks later, we received word that he was in Paris, living in a cheap hotel in Montparnasse.
At least 127 people are dead and another 2, 000 missing after landslides and floodwaters swept through a county in north-western China overnight, state media reported.
At least 127 people are dead and another 2,000 missing after landslides and floodwaters swept through a county in north-western China overnight, state media reported.
With 167,000 dead or missing along an 800 kilometer strip of coastline that had been swept clean of buildings and all signs of life, the task of rebuilding seemed, and was, overwhelming.