This issue’s news reports on: The damage caused by Typhoon Morokot across Taiwan and China; The Emergency Support System Consortium’s research and development of a portable emergency command and control system for the EU; Wildfires in British Columbia; Kuwait wedding tent tragedy; Tongan ferry disaster; Terror attacks kill police in Spain; 2009 Edition of World Disasters Report; NLE 09; and suicide attack on Russian police station; Making cities safer – ARTICLE IN FULL Also Book review page 58 General Honore in IN FULL