Dr. Annie Gray

What I saw wasn't pretty, says Schiedler.

It was garbage, a real mess.

Suddenly, he spotted something that gave him a chill.

Buried near Sector Zero, the disk's innermost circle, was evidence that the glitch was not a glitch at all, but a deliberate act of sabotage.

That was not true.

There standing out amid a stream of random letters and numbers was the name and phone number of a Pakistani computer store and a message that read, in part, Welcome to the dungeon.

Contact us for vaccination.

Brain was thought to be the first virus for personal computers and also the first and possibly the only virus to contain the genuine names and contact information of its creators.

This was unusual because no one who wrote a harmful virus would want to be identified.

Amjad and his brothers still work at their company, Brain, which is now a large telecommunications firm in Pakistan.

It's the 15th of December and torrential rain has been inundating the mountainous regions of Venezuela.

We already had a lot of rain for several days, but we did not expect what was going to happen.

The rain was really heavy and the drops were really big.

It was very strange because I had never seen that before.

We'd never experienced anything like it.

Usually when it rains, the rain is lighter, not that heavy.

Lady Crespo lives with her two young daughters, mother, sister and aunt, in the coastal state of Vargas, now known as La Guaira in the north of the country.

There's no let-up in the rain, and later that day, floodwater starts rushing down the road.

It was muddy water.

We could hear it was carrying big stones and huge trees.