Storm strands buses, planes, trains on East Coast

A powerful East Coast blizzard marooned thousands of would-be air, rail and road travelers Monday, shutting down major airports and ra...

Heavy Snow Blasts France, Scotland

    Heavy snow in Paris on Wednesday shut down the city's main airport, its bus system and the  Eiffel Tower. Elsewhere in Europe, ...

Indonesia Death Toll Rises to More than 300 in Disasters

Relief workers struggled to overcome rough seas to assess damage and to deliver aid to islands smashed by a deadly Indonesian tsunami, wh...

Hungary Arrests Director in Sludge Case

  BUDAPEST — The managing director of the company whose reservoir unleashed a lethal torrent of red sludge on three villages last we...

20 missing in mountain mudslide

BOGOTA, Colombia — A mudslide swept over people changing from one bus to another because an earlier slide was blocking a mountain road Mond...

Flooding In Pakistan

The 2010 Pakistan floods began in July 2010 after heavy monsoon rains affected the  khyber pakhtunhwa, sidh lower Punjan as well as parts...

Fires In Russian - Spread 500 Sq. Miles

Russia is experiencing intensifying rural wildfires stoked by a heat wave and strong winds, the country’s Emergency Situations Ministry sai...

Spain to Investigate Solar Plants Over Subsidies

Spain may force any solar plant owners who cheated on paperwork to gain higher subsidies to repay income earned through deception, a minis...

A Hot Sunday of year so far in UK

Sunday is set to be the hottest day so far this year and temperatures may hit 30C, the BBC weather centre predicts.  The previou...

Arsenic in water poisoned 77 million people in Bangladesh

  Up to 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from contaminated drinking water, and even low-level exposure ...

Arkansas flood - 16 Dead

Flash floods swept through a campground in western Arkansas overnight, killing at least 16 people as they slept and leaving an unknown nu...