en 60 /peopleandsociety/news/story/47361.html?rss=1 A weakened Hurricane Gustav is now moving inland from the US Gulf Coast after the worst of the storm missed the largely deserted city of New Orleans. /peopleandsociety/news/story/47341.html?rss=1 Hurricane Gustav smashed into the flood-prone but deserted coast of Louisiana on Monday. /peopleandsociety/news/story/47261.html?rss=1 Nearly two million people are reported to have fled their homes on the southern US coast as Hurricane Gustav approaches land. /peopleandsociety/news/story/46902.html?rss=1 At least 11 people have been killed and around 30 wounded in a devastating bomb attack on a bus in the centre of the Lebanese city of Tripoli. /peopleandsociety/news/story/46872.html?rss=1 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered a halt to military action in Georgia on Tuesday morning. /peopleandsociety/news/story/46822.html?rss=1 At least 13 people have been killed and ten wounded in a roadside bomb attack on a military bus in Pakistan on Tuesday morning. /peopleandsociety/news/story/46072.html?rss=1 The human rights situation in China has worsened in the run-up to the country hosting this year's Olympic Games, a report has warned. /peopleandsociety/news/story/45941.html?rss=1 Pope Benedict XVI has urged the world's major religions to work together to fight the evils of terrorism. /peopleandsociety/news/story/45911.html?rss=1 Nearly 300,000 heroin and crack cocaine users in England are claiming state benefits, British researchers have found. /peopleandsociety/news/story/44691.html?rss=1 The Queen and the Royal Family cost the UK taxpayer £40m in the last financial year, Buckingham Palace accounts reveal. /peopleandsociety/news/story/43101.html?rss=1 Three British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, taking the number of UK troops killed in the troubled Asian country since 2001 to 100. /peopleandsociety/news/story/41942.html?rss=1 The death toll from last week's earthquake in south-west China has reached more than 51,000, officials have said. /peopleandsociety/news/story/41672.html?rss=1 More than 50,000 people may have been killed in the devastating Sichuan earthquake, the Chinese government has warned. /peopleandsociety/news/story/41491.html?rss=1 The UN World Food Programme (WFP) says it will resume aid flights to cyclone-struck Burma on Saturday. /peopleandsociety/news/story/41392.html?rss=1 Two UN planes have touched down in Burma bringing much needed supplies to the one million survivors made homeless by Cyclone Nargis. /peopleandsociety/news/story/41282.html?rss=1 The death toll from Burma's devastating cyclone has now risen to more than 22,000, state media have said. /peopleandsociety/news/story/41241.html?rss=1 The death toll from last weekend's devastating cyclone in south-west Burma has reached 15,000, the Burmese government has said. /peopleandsociety/news/story/41201.html?rss=1 American President George W Bush has asked the US Congress to approve $770m in new international food aid. /peopleandsociety/news/story/40952.html?rss=1 A policeman has told how two children kept prisoner in an Austrian cellar for their entire lives were "open-mouthed with awe" when shown the outside world for the first time. /peopleandsociety/news/story/40472.html?rss=1 Pope Benedict XVI has ended his first visit to America with an open-air Mass at New York's Yankee baseball stadium. /peopleandsociety/news/story/40092.html?rss=1 World Bank head Robert Zoellick’s calls to ease food shortages were endorsed at this weekend’s World Bank/IMF Spring meetings. /peopleandsociety/news/story/39982.html?rss=1 Heightened demand from women's magazines and national newspapers for human interest stories means there is now more scope than ever before for people to earn a profit by selling their real-life stories. /peopleandsociety/news/story/39832.html?rss=1 The mother of Shannon Matthews has been remanded in custody after appearing in court charged in connection with the nine-year-old's disappearance. /peopleandsociety/news/story/39612.html?rss=1 Having a Yorkshire accent can make you sound more intelligent than a Brummie - or even someone who talks posh. /peopleandsociety/news/story/39512.html?rss=1 The group of friends who were having dinner together on the night Madeleine McCann disappeared are to be re-interviewed.