Natural Disasters News

Parts of Scotland have remained under flood water after a month's rain fell in just 36 hours in some places.

Military helicopters winched dozens of people to safety and emergency workers in inflatable boats rescued scores more as floods swamped homes and roads Friday in northern England's picturesque Lake District.

Arun Kumar was born to disabled parents, beaten by his grandparents, ran away from home, got a job in a garment factory and had all his savings stolen by the police.

Water levels in the flood-hit town of Cockermouth, in Cumbria, have at last stabilised - on a night when they reached almost 2.5 metres on the worst affected streets.

A strong storm moving through Friday into Saturday could drop more than a foot of snow at the highest elevations of the Sierra.

"Reporting so far reconfirms that the pandemic flu vaccine is as safe as the seasonal flu vaccine," says WHO vaccine expert Dr.

Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu a ' most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms a ' have failed to contain the disease.

The UK could suffer a shortage of intensive care beds for children with swine flu, researchers have said.

The Environment Agency and the Met Office have warned of a high risk of flooding to property on Thursday.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers' failure to properly maintain a navigation channel led to massive flooding in Hurricane Katrina, a decision that could make the federal government vulnerable to billions of dollars in claims.

The National Weather Service says another strong Pacific storm will hit Washington Wednesday night and Thursday.

Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:36am EST - A man receives a dose of H1N1 flu vaccine as a woman waits for her turn at a hospital in Athens November 16, 2009.

Federal agriculture authorities have declared disaster areas in parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee due to crop losses from a combination of severe spring and fall flooding and summer drought.

Thousands marched through the Czech capital Tuesday in commemoration of a student protest 20 years ago that grew into the human tidal wave sweeping away the communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia.

Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections.

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake occurred at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday off the Queen Charlotte Islands off the west coast of British Columbia.

Today...Becoming mostly cloudy from around I-94 to the south with chance of light rain this afternoon near the Wisconsin/Illinois border.

People who have had repeated flu infections -- or repeated flu vaccines -- may have some protection against the new pandemic swine influenza, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

In Ukraine, swine flu is causing electoral fever. In a hard-fought presidential campaign, critics of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko accuse her of stirring up panic to grab the spotlight from rivals by closing all schools and banning mass gatherings to combat what experts say is a relatively moderate outbreak of the disease.

Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:59am EST -Registered nurse Susan Longobucco-Hynes prepares a dose of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine for patients at an Asthma fair at Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts November 14, 2009.