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Life at 50C: Surviving in Kuwait's 'unbearable' heat
The Middle East is warming faster than much of the world, and Kuwait is careering towards unbearable temperatures.
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Read more…La Palma island braces for more quakes as volcano roars on
Residents on Spain’s La Palma island braced Wednesday for the possibility of bigger earthquakes that could compound the damage from a volcano spilling lava more than five weeks since it erupted.
Seismologists said a 4.6 magnitude earthquake shook the
Read more…Swine flu vaccine case settled for €1m in Ireland, Europe
The mother of a teenage girl who claimed she developed the sleep disorder narcolepsy after receiving the swine flu vaccine has told the High Court her daughter was robbed of her childhood and teenage years.
Today, the High Court heard the now 15-yea
Read more…Deadly medicane walloping southern Italy with flooding rain, strong winds
The cyclonic storm was blamed by local authorities for at least one death on Monday as it triggered flooding and landslides. And the worst of the storm may still be yet to come.
Medicane is an informal name for a non-tropical storm that moves over th
Read more…Nor'easter leaves half a million without power in New England
A month's worth of rain fell at Islip, New York, on Tuesday with 3.98 inches of water reported at the airport. Typically, 3.97 inches of rain falls in Islip in all of October. This broke the old record daily rainfall set in 1981 of 1.50 inches.
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Read more…'Absolute nightmare' after 40-plus inches of snowfall, but ...
The intense rain and dangerous flooding in burn scar areas of California have been devastating, and the snow-covered landscapes of high-elevation areas have been just as eye-popping and turned navigating roadways there into an "absolute nightmare" fo
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