Families flee river of ice after freak storm hits town

The bizarre fall weather has continued in the UK, with a freak ice storm hitting the British town of Devon."Dozens of people, including a mother in labour, had to be rescued after a freak hailstorm left a Devon town cut off by floodwater.More than a foot of hail fell on...

Rain Shuts School, Leisure Centre

"The head teacher of a secondary school forced to close by flash floods after torrential rain will not re-open until after the summer holidays. Pupils were sent home from Prestatyn High School in Denbighshire at lunch time after water rose up the drains during the one-hour...

China Makes It Snow

Weather control, usually the domain of James Bond villains*, has taken a big step forward as China claims success in triggering snowfall from clouds seeded with silver iodide."China claimed yesterday to have caused a snowfall for the first time as part of its increasingly...

An Immigrant Underground

"Armando Reyes climbed over the border fence and prepared for the dash into San Diego. But his smuggler instead led him and four other migrants through a patch of reeds to a stinky drainage pipe, and ordered them inside. "