Tropical Storm Cristobal is the 3rd Atlantic tropical storm this season.Updated 07/20/08: The latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center states that the storm is still moving northeastward and is hugging the...
UPDATE #3: Typhoon Kalmaegi tore through Taiwan yesterday unleashing torrential rains and ferocious winds over 90 miles per hour. The BBC are reporting six people killed and four more are missing. The...
Benin's summary:Chido analyzes an article that appeared in the BBC talking about how land, farming, politics, and race collide in South Africa. He reminds us that land is a rather touchy subject not just in Zimbabwe, but for the most part across Sub Saharan...
" She brushes orange curls out of her face as she explains how she's been slighted. She is the headliner, you know. She is a star. She is classy. "I don't just get up there and rip my clothes off," she says. Indeed,...
At least three tornadoes swept through southern Saskatchewan Thursday night, resulting in the evacuation of more than 100 homes and power outages in several communities. No injuries or deaths have been reported, but...
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"Tropical Storm Bertha has further strengthened and is now becomes the first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic season. At 4 a.m., the center of Hurricane Bertha was about 845 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands....
Head of a waxwork of Adolf Hitler's has been restored and it will be reinstalled at the Germany's Madame Tussauds . "A waxwork of Adolf Hitler will return to Berlin's new Madame Tussauds as soon as experts have restored the head ripped off by a demonstrator on its...
Forecasters say Bertha could become the season's first hurricane within 48 hours, but it's still unclear where or how hard it will hit. It's currently about 1,200 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands in the...
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Looks like Bertha is heading straight for the East Coast!"Bertha is moving slowly west-northwestward over the open waters of the tropical Atlantic. As of Friday evening, the center of Tropical Storm Bertha was...
This is a great interview with John Holdren, a professor of environmental policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and lawyer Stephen Susman who is representing Kivalina islanders, Native Alaskan people who have to be moved, because of global warming, to the...
Hundreds of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip have stormed the gate at the Rafah crossing and have clashed heavily with security forces."Palestinian youth on Wednesday threw rocks at Egyptian soldiers, who responded in kind, keeping the crowd at bay with water cannons. ...
"Behind the battle for Beijing berths at the US Olympic swimming trials another conflict was simmering: The swimsuit wars. Speedo's sensational new LZR Racer has taken swimming by storm, playing a role in 19 of 20 long course records set this year. "For me, wearing the...
"(CNN) -- Thousands of football fans fled for safety and millions of TV viewers were left disappointed Wednesday night as an electrical storm in Vienna disrupted coverage of the first of the Euro 2008 semifinals."
"SAN FRANCISCO (AP) In less than a day, an electrical storm unleashed nearly 8,000 lightning strikes that set more than 800 wildfires across Northern California — a RARE example of "dry lightning" that brought...
Another natural disaster has struck China. Tropical strom Fengshen lashed southern China today. Fengshen has killed hundreds of people in Philippines earlier.Update 4pm EST - Feng Shen has decreased in strength and...
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