2 hrs ago | Gulf Times
Floods kill hundreds, displace thousands
Flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains have killed more than 400 people in Pakistan in three days and affected at least 600,000, a minister said yesterday.
6 hrs ago | Action 3 News
South bakes, humidity feels like 100-plus degrees
Heat advisories were posted from the Carolinas to the Great Plains as the South continued to roast Friday under temperatures and humidity that made beaches feel more like bakeries.
8 hrs ago | KXAN-TV Austin
25 dead as fires rage across Russia
Forest fires raged across Russia on Friday, destroying villages, surrounding one southern city and killing at least 25 people, including three firefighters.
13 hrs ago | Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Dramatic storm hits Wenatchee area
A dramatic thunder and rain storm that pounded the Wenatchee Valley caused flash floods, mudslides and closed a portion of a major highway overnight.
17 hrs ago | KTEN-TV Denison
Perry seeks federal disaster aid for 21 counties
Gov. Rick Perry is seeking a presidential disaster proclamation for 21 Texas counties hard-hit by flooding from the remnants of Hurricane Alex and Tropical Depression 2. A statement issued Thursday by Perry's office says he's written to President Barack Obama to request federal disaster aid for the counties in west and south Texas.
Rivers burst, floods kill at least 60 in Pakistan
Rivers burst their banks during deadly monsoon rains lashing Pakistan, washing away streets, battering a dam and submerging thousands of homes, officials said Thursday.
All cheers as beer sales increase
Quarterly beer sales are up on 12 months ago for the first time in four years, figures have showed.
Raging Russian fires destroy homes, people flee
Raging forest fires encircled a southern Russian city and tore through provincial villages Thursday, forcing mass evacuations as Moscow suffered through a record, weeks-long heat wave and smog cloud caused by peat-bog fires.
Active weather was forecast to continue throughout the eastern half of the nation Thursday.
Relatives search for bodies at Pakistan air crash
Relatives desperate to find the bodies of loved ones joined emergency teams Thursday at the scene of Pakistan's worst-ever plane crash, but recovery work was badly hampered by thick mud, rain and slippery hillsides.
Scientists say global warming is continuing
Scientists from around the world are providing even more evidence of global warming, one day after President Barack Obama renewed his call for climate legislation.
SW Idaho fires destroy 3 homes, threaten others as wind ...
Three homes burned and dozens of others were evacuated Wednesday as a wind-whipped grassfire northwest of Idaho's capital city expanded to thousands of acres and threatened rural subdivisions.
Worst floods in a decade in China, 30,000 trapped
In this photo taken Tuesday, July 27, 2010, a landslide sweeps aside buildings at the village of Wangong village in Hanyuan county in Ya'an of southwest China's Sichuan province.
Sizzling Moscow shrouded in polluting smog
A cloud of harmful smog has enveloped Moscow, raising airborne pollutants to four times the norm, officials said Wednesday, and prompting doctors to urge residents to stay indoors as the city swelters in a record heat wave.
No survivors in Pakistani plane crash
A Pakistani passenger plane crashed in heavy rain near Islamabad on Wednesday, killing all 152 people on board, officials said, in the worst aviation accident in Pakistan.
Wis. Teens Take Flying Leap To Deliver Mail
The main worry for some young mail carriers in southern Wisconsin is neither dogs nor extreme weather.
Summer and warm weather bring countless seasonal delights: sundresses, ice-cream trucks and picnics, to name a few.
Presidential Declaration: Two Iowa counties have been declared...
President Barack Obama has declared a disaster area for two southeastern Iowa counties affected by severe storms and flooding in May.
Torrential rain causes flood in Zhejiang Province
Citizens row on a door along the street of Taizhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, on July 26, 2010.
South Dakota hailstone might be world record
The National Weather Service says a hailstone that fell south of the South Dakota capital of Pierre might be a world record.
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