Ethiopian Airlines Plane Crash January 2010 Updates. The plane, said to be a Boeing 737, disappeared off the radar shortly after takeoff. An airline official said contact was lost about 45 minutes after the early morning departure. About 50 of the passengers were Lebanese nationals, most of the others were Ethiopians, airline sources said. There were thought to be seven crew members.

The plane took off shortly after its scheduled time of 3:10 a.m. (0010 GMT), flying south-west. According to the Ethiopian Airlines website, the flight from Beirut was bound for Addis Ababa. Senior Lebanese officials headed to Rafik Hariri International Airport after news of the crash. The plane had flown in from Addis Ababa earlier in the night, the sources said.

Among those on flight 409, which was heading to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, were two British nationals of Lebanese origin, as well as the wife of the French ambassador to Lebanon, Reuters reported. The majority of the passengers were Lebanese or Ethiopian.

Television footage showed the remains of mangled airplane seats and luggage washed up on the shore south of Beirut where the airport’s main runway is located. Lebanese army patrol boats, helicopters and divers were searching frantically in a small area off Na’ameh, 10 km (six miles) south of the capital.

The Boeing 737-800 took off from Rafik Hariri international airport at around 2.30am (12.30am GMT) and disappeared from the radar a few minutes later, two miles off the coast from Naameh, a coastal village just south of Beirut.

CNN.com/haiti360 Hope for Haiti Telethon Update. All the musicians are joining together in their efforts to raise money and relief for disaster struck Haitians. The popular musicians bandied together on Friday nigth today and gave out an awesome performance for their fans with the idea of raising money which will be donated to provide relief on the island.

CNN.com’s Haiti360 located at cnn.com/haiti360 takes you through Haiti interactively. cnn.com/haiti360 is CNN’s Haiti 360 degree tour optimized with video shot in recent days. Three different videos can be chosen. Once selected, the imagery places virtually full screen enabled by video recorded truck mounted while driving through the ravaged streets.

Says CNN:

“Use your mouse to click and drag around the video to change the view. You can also zoom in and out. Pause and explore at any time by pressing the play/pause button under the video to stop and look around.”

Justin Timberlake : Hope for Haiti Telethon. Timberlake and his former “Mickey Mouse Club” castmate Matt Morris performed Leonard Cohen’s 1984 track “Hallelujah” for the telethon. In the years since its release, “Hallelujah” has snowballed in popularity, in part because it’s been covered by many musicians — John Cale, Rufus Wainwright and former “American Idol” hopeful Jason Castro, to name a few.

Jeff Buckley’s version, which appeared on his 1994 album Grace, topped the Hot Digital Songs chart in 2008, after Castro’s cover aired on “Idol.” Later that year, Alexandra Burke, winner of the Simon Cowell-masterminded U.K. talent show “The X Factor,” topped that country’s charts with her own version.

The Timberlake/Morris take puts a new spin on the song because it’s a duet. The two singers harmonized beautifully, no doubt in part because the song is a go-to track when they’re working on music together.

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Hope for Haiti Now Concert Performance Download at iTunes.com/haiti. All the musicians are joining together in their efforts to raise money and relief for disaster struck Haitians. The popular musicians bandied together on Friday nigth today and gave out an awesome performance for their fans with the idea of raising money which will be donated to provide relief on the island.

On itunes.com/haiti you can order the “iTunes Hope for Haiti Now” album. itunes.com/haiti features iTunes’s Hope for Haiti album featuring all of tonight’s performances for $7.99. You can also buy the two our video telecast for $1.99

The performances, staged in New York City, Los Angeles and London, are being beamed across the globe on almost 40 TV networks as well as on internet sites — including ninemsn — in what’s being billed as the most widely distributed telethon in history, outdoing even the legendary Band Aid fundraiser.

HopeforHaitiNow.Org : Help and Donate for Haiti Earthquake Casualty. 100% of funds raised will go towards relief efforts in Haiti and there are NO backend costs. Additionally, the Entertainment Industry Foundation has waived all administrative fees.

A massive, 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti near the capital of Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, January 12th. The damage to buildings is extensive and the number of injured or dead is estimated to be over 100,000.

Your gift will help rush emergency supplies to survivors of this catastrophe. Your gift now will help distribute life-saving relief supplies including food, clean water, blankets, medical supplies and tents to children and families devastated by the earthquake and aftershocks in Haiti.

Tuesday morning, the 21-year-old from Chesterfield Township became the youngest player to win the World Series of Poker Main Event in its 40-year history. Joe Cada is on top of the 2009 poker world series.

Moon says he is happy with his over $5 million win, compared to Cada which has $8.5 million. Final Results are as follows: 3 – Antoine Saout $3,479,485, 4 – Eric Buchman $2,502,787, 5- Jeff Shulman $1,953,395, 6 – Steve Begleiter $1,587,133, 7 – Phil Ivey $1,404,002, 8 – Kevin Schaffel $1,300,228, 9- James Akenhead $1,263,602

Joe walked away with $8,547,042 and a record as WSOP’s youngest winner in the tournament’s 40 year history.

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