Romania: Death toll from heat wave 18
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A heat wave that has hit Romania in the past week has killed at least 18 people and caused hundreds to collapse in the street, authorities said Monday.
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South-Eastern Europe reels from a wave of extremely hot weather that has killed more than 30 people.
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Southeastern Europe continued to sizzle under an intense heat wave Monday, with temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit leading to the deaths of four people in Greece and Cyprus and sparking two dozen forest fires in Italy.
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Romania&#39;s capital of Bucharest was hit by an earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
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The searing heat wave that scorched the East and Midwest for nearly a week finally showed signs of breaking on Thursday, leaving behind scattered power outages and at least 22 deaths.
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Power blackouts hit 13 locations in Athens and 95 fires were reported across Greece on Wednesday amid a heat wave that has killed dozens of people in southeast Europe over the past week.
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Human activity has at least doubled the risk of heat waves like the one in 2003 that killed thousands in Europe, researchers conclude in a study being published today in the scientific journal Nature.
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The week-long heat wave in Southern California has claimed four lives and caused power outages to more than half a million customers, utility and local officials said on Tuesday.
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Â· State accused of bungling as flames claim 57 lives Â· Prime minister admits local forces cannot cope
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A new heatwave hits crops and water supplies in Romania, with temperatures set to soar to 40C.
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At least 25 deaths were blamed on an excessive eight-day heatwave in Southern California that finally started to cool on Wednesday.
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About 500 people died in the past week from a heatwave in Hungary, a top health official says.
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Politics: 19 September 2004, Sunday. The recently intensified Romanian attacks against the construction of a second nuclear plant in Bulgaria can be explained with the pathos of pre-elections rhetoric ahead of ...
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[World News]: Buenos Aires, Dec 31 : The death toll from a fire in a nightclub in Argentina climbed to 134 while at least 260 were still battling for their lives, police said Friday.
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A heat wave sweeping central and southeastern Europe killed at least 13 people this week, with soaring temperatures sparking forest fires, damaging crops and prompting calls to ban horse-drawn tourist carriages.
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The death toll from the collapse of a 12-storey residential building in Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria rose to at least 18 on Wednesday, security sources said.
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THE death toll from a tropical storm buffeting Japan rose to 17 yesterday, including two men buried inside their homes by mud. Tropical storm Meari has cut a wide swath through Japan