| Sat, 31 Jul 2010 Volcano: Turner to Warhol
| Just after 7am on 15 November 1963, the cook of a trawler off the southern coast of Iceland saw something alarming in the distance: a column of black smoke rising from the waves. Thinking it might be another vessel on fire, the trawler set off to investigate. But as t... | Record rains - but Pakistan is dying for water
| Pakistan is a place used to wretched ironies but few have been so starkly drawn as the one that haunts it this weekend. Record-breaking rainfall has brought floods which have so far killed more than 800 - all in a country that faces a water crisis so severe it will st... | Floods kill 800 in Pakistan
| Anita Joshua | Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa province is the worst hit | ISLAMABAD: The break in the incessant rainfall of the past few days did not bring any respite for the people of the flood affected areas of Pakistan on Saturday as the death toll mounted amid fears of a po... | La Nina puts Sabah on alert for floods and landslips
| KOTA KINABALU: Flash floods and landslips are increasing as Sabah experiences a wetter season with the La Nina phenomenon setting in. | From east coast Tawau where thousands were hit by flash floods and landslips edging closer to housing estates around the state, auth... | NATO-Led Afghan Troops Rescue 2,000 From Floods
| KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) — Dozens of people were killed and thousands more were rescued by NATO-led Afghan forces after flash floods set off by heavy monsoon rains that struck rugged and remote northeast Afghanistan, officials said Saturday. | The area was h... | Monsoon seasonal deficit narrows to 4%
NEW DELHI: Halfway through the 16-week monsoon season, the rainfall across the country in the past 10 days has cut the 16% shortfall at the end of June to 4% till Saturday. | Of the 36 meteorological sub-divisions in the country, only eight received deficient rainfall. ... | Pakistan floods kill up to 800
| - Rescue workers and troops in northwest Pakistan struggled Saturday to reach thousands of people affected by the country's worst floods in living memory, as the death toll rose to 800. | Hundreds of homes and vast swathes of farmland were destroyed in the northwest a... | Pakistan's killer monsoon
Early and gushing monsoons have brought havoc to Pakistan. The mountainous north is devastated to the core, as floods and torrential downpour cost hundreds of lives. | Though there are no adequate figures and reports to estimate the losses, the United Nations says the f... | |
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