Clean-up efforts were underway Sunday in flood-hit towns following the heaviest downpours ever recorded in England, as fears mounted for a woman thought ...
Hundreds of residents in eastern Australia were on alert Sunday as out-of-control wildfires fanned by soaring temperatures and windy conditions threatened properties, officials ...
Australia has issued "catastrophic" alerts after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said Saturday. Unseasonably hot and dry weather combined with strong winds to fan scores of blazes in the country's southeastern states, ...
Turkey is determined to build a nuclear power plant and will launch a new project to replace a failed tender, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz was quoted as saying Saturday. "The fact that the tender was scrapped does not mean that the process ...
Turkey on Friday scrapped a 2008 tender won by a Russian-led consortium to build the country's first nuclear power plant -- a process that had been under threat of being invalidated by a court decision. In a brief statement, the state-run electricity ...
Local childeren look on at a rescue service worker as he navigates the flood waters, in the streets of Cockermouth England, Friday Nov. 20, 2009 as they work to rescue stranded residents from their homes, after heavy rains caused local flooding in ...
A row of houses are seen engulfed by floodwaters after a heavy rain caused localised flooding in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, Friday, Nov 20,2009. Resisdents of the village of Cockermouth, England, are being rescued from their homes by members of the Royal National ...
Map compares the current state of New Orleans to before Hurricane Katrina struck in August Copyright 2009 AP News
The deadly levee failures that led to the 2005 flooding of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina were due to negligence by the US Army Corps of Engineers, a federal judge has ruled. The late Wednesday ruling could open the federal government up ...
The deadly levee failures which led to the flooding of New Orleans during 2005's Hurricane Katrina were due to negligence by the US Army Corps of Engineers, a federal judge ruled. "The Corps' lassitude and failure to fulfill its duties resulted in ...
FILE - In this Sept. 1, 2005 file photo, residents wait on a rooftop to be rescued from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The federal government could be vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims after a judge rules ...
Smoke rose Thursday from the world's largest nuclear power plant in Japan, which was hit by a deadly earthquake two years ago, but the operator said no-one was injured and there was no radiation leak. "A worker at our company spotted smoke ...
