A fierce storm battered northern Europe with hurricane force winds Thursday, leaving five people dead or missing, disrupting travel and forcing thousands to flee their homes amid fears of the worst tidal surge in decades. British authorities evacuated 15,000 homes as flooding started on ...
Tens of thousands of desperately needed jobs are being created for survivors of the catastrophic typhoon in the Philippines by paying them to clear mountains of waste from ruined cities and farms. U.N. agencies are spearheading the “cash for work” programs, which they hope ...
A frantic campaign to reach millions of hungry, injured and homeless people in the Philippines following one of the world’s strongest storms is almost over. Now the grinding slog of rebuilding begins. Experts say it will cost billions of dollars and take years to ...
A powerful storm system that has caused hundreds of accidents across the U.S. West has marched eastward with predictions of widespread snow, freezing temperatures and gusty winds. The fierce weather has caused at least eight deaths and prompted advisories Saturday afternoon in New Mexico ...
Nearly half of the detainees who escaped from a flooded jail at the height of Typhoon Haiyan have returned, many after helping their families deal with the storm’s aftermath. There were nearly 600 detainees at the Leyte Provincial Jail when the typhoon, one of ...
Hundreds of thousands were evacuated as a severe cyclone slammed into southeastern India on Friday, packing strong winds and torrential rains that killed at least two people, according to officials. “Cyclone Helen has made landfall,” said an official with the National Disaster Management Authority ...
China sends an emergency response crew to the Philippines nearly two weeks after Typhoon Haiyan wreaked devastation, following criticism over meager assistance from the world’s second-largest economy.
Clouds of flies rise as forensic pathologist Cecilia Lim opens body bags one by one in a grim but crucial search for the identities of unknown typhoon victims in the Philippines. “Some of these remains, their faces are gone. We’re trying to do it ...
They found the hoop in the ruins of their obliterated neighborhood. They propped up the backboard with broken wood beams and rusty nails scavenged from vast mounds of storm-blasted homes. A crowd gathered around. And on one of the few stretches of road here ...
When a newspaper for Filipino workers in New Zealand told readers how to donate to the typhoon relief effort in their homeland, it mentioned agencies like the Red Cross but not a list of government bank accounts that the Philippine Embassy had sent over. ...
Helicopters dropped emergency supplies to desperate villagers in the Philippines as a growing global relief effort following a devastating typhoon pushed beyond towns and cities Monday toward remote island and mountain communities. On the tiny island of Homonhon, which suffered a direct hit from ...
In one of the world’s most naturally deadly countries, catastrophes can originate almost anywhere. Flash floods race down mountainsides. A zigzag of tectonic plates collide below. Typhoons build in warm ocean waters and then tear westward. And when disasters do strike, they strike hard, ...
