Heavy storms pound Italy; two killed when landslide sweeps house
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ROME  - Two Italians were killed in a landslide this weekend as fierce storms pounded the country, causing floods that slowed trains, cut off traffic and forced hundreds of people to evacuate their homes.
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MARIA ELENA, Chile - A major earthquake crushed cars, damaged thousands of houses, blocked roads, and terrified people for hundreds of miles yesterday. Officials reported at least two deaths and more than 100 injuries.
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Heavy rains in the US in the wake of Hurricane Ivan caused floods from Alabama in the south to Pennsylvania in the northeast and left about 1 million homes and businesses without power.
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Hurricane Ivan slammed into the US Gulf Coast on Thursday with destructive winds and pounding waves that ripped away beachfront homes, flooded deep inland and spawned tornadoes that killed at least two people.
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Six people were confirmed dead and another two were missing on Saturday as wild storms continued to lash Australia&#39;s east coast, smashing boats, flooding roads and cutting power to 200,000 homes.
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Wildfires swept through Greece on Thursday, killing two people and destroying homes after days of record temperatures of more than 100 degrees that led to at least nine heatstroke deaths and extensive power cuts.
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Disaster crews with dogs went from one pile of debris to another in a search for bodies Friday after powerful storms, including at least one tornado, smashed hundreds of homes across central Florida and killed 19 people or more.
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High winds and storms have swept Italy in the last 48 hours, leaving houses flooded and many roads and railways blocked, local media reported Sunday.
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Gale-force winds dumping heavy snow wreaked havoc across Austria and Slovakia on Saturday, blowing cars into deadly collisions, knocking out power to thousands of homes and tearing off a balcony that struck a man below.
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Heavy rainfall caused massive flooding across England on Monday, killing at least two people and leaving hundreds of people stranded in factories and offices, officials said.
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Gale-force winds dumping heavy snow caused havoc across Austria on Saturday, blowing cars across roads and into deadly collisions, knocking out power to thousands of homes and tearing a balcony off a building that critically injured a man below.
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A fast-moving storm packing high winds roared through California Saturday, killing at least two people, dumping up to 18 inches of snow in the Sierra Nevada and cutting power to thousands in Northern California.
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Storms slammed rain-soaked Ohio on Saturday and hundreds of thousands of people in the Midwest were without power after their homes were battered by lashing winds and flooding rains.
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Floods, landslides and lightning strikes have left dozens dead in Bangladesh as torrential monsoon rains pounded the disaster-prone country, officials said Monday.
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Heavy rain from the remnants of Jeanne flooded low-lying areas, uprooted trees and loosened the earth at a cemetery in south Georgia, washing coffins from the ground. Two deaths were blamed on the storm in South Carolina.
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Landslides caused by torrential rains killed at least 36 people overnight in Indonesia's Central Java province, police said on Wednesday.
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A storm with hurricane-strength winds swept across parts of Scandinavia on Saturday, leaving at least three people dead in Denmark and two killed in Sweden, police said.