Australia storm death toll rises
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At least five people are now confirmed dead as wild storms continue to batter eastern Australia, officials say.
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Freak summer storms lashed eastern Australia overnight, dumping record rains on Melbourne, hitting Brisbane with a towering dust storm and leaving at least two people dead, officials said.
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NEW DELHI/JAKARTA/NEW YORK - The death toll in the tsunamis that ripped across Southeast and South Asia climbed above 24,000 on Tuesday as emergency and government officials said two days after the disaster that they feared the number of victims would
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The death toll in bushfires sweeping South Australia state rose to 10 after two more bodies were found on the state's Eyre Peninsula, police said.
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The death count across Asia and Africa soared to nearly 77,000 and aid officials said it was likely to surpass 100,000, even as as workers rushed to bury corpses to ward off disease, report newswires.
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Bloated bodies and weeping relatives filled mortuaries today as Tropical Storm Jeanne killed more than 570 Haitians with the toll expected to rise.
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The death toll from Cyclone Gonu rose to 61 on Saturday &#151; with dozens of others still missing and feared dead in Oman &#151; when Iranian state media reported nine new deaths from the storm.
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The death toll from fierce rain storms and flooding in China continued to rise Saturday as the government scrambled to step up relief and prevention efforts, state press reported.
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The death toll in the killer tsunami tidal waves Monday rose rapidly to over 16,000 across South and South East Asia. In Sri Lanka, at least 5,880 people died in the huge
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Death toll rises to 64 as opposition and media ridicule lack of disaster planning.
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The international community pledged more relief efforts for tsunami-devastated South and Southeast Asian countries Thursday as the death toll from the worst earthquake and tsunamis climbed to over 115,000.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka  - Asia's tsunami death toll  soared past 175,000 Monday as Sri Lanka confirmed thousands  more dead, while fears re-emerged over the safety of aid  workers in Indonesia's shattered Aceh province.
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Thousands more bodies were found in Indonesia in the aftermath of Asia&#39;s devastating tsunamis, dramatically increasing the death toll across 11 nations to around 44,000.
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The death toll from floods and landslides unleashed by ferocious storms lashing southwest China jumped to 143 with at least 50 more missing, state media reported.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The death toll in the  Indian Ocean tsunami disaster soared above 120,000 on Thursday  as millions scrambled for food and fresh water and thousands  more fled in panic to high ground on rumors of new waves.
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Indonesia's Health Ministry raised the country's death toll from the Dec. 26 tsunami to 166,320 Wednesday, pushing the total number of people killed in the disaster around the region above 225,000.
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The death toll from a tropical storm buffeting Japan rose today to 14 after searchers found more victims, including two men buried inside their homes beneath mud and debris that had barreled down a mountainside.