Heatwave kills six more Romanians
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The death toll from Romania's heat wave rose to 15 on Sunday after six more people died in the Black Sea country where temperatures hovered around 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu said.
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The state appeared to break out of its nearly two-week heat wave Friday, but not before it caused as many as 141 deaths and did untold damage to crops.
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Six people are killed while exploring tunnels on Spain's Canary Islands, probably from lack of oxygen, officials say.
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The earthquake, which occurred in Romania last night, measuring 6.2 on the Richter Scale, was also felt in Turkey. First reports say nobody was killed or injured in the earthquake.
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Up to 500 people in Hungary have died in a heatwave in the past week, a top health official says.
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Forest fires whipped by gale-force winds killed at least 12 people on Friday in the mountains of southern Greece, including six people trapped in their cars.
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AS Hurricane Ivan&#39;s death toll topped 100 and was still rising, US and Caribbean meteorologists yesterday were tracking a new weather system that had already killed six people.
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The U.S. military announced on Friday the deaths of six more soldiers in Iraq, hours after U.S. President George W. Bush predicted a bloody summer lay ahead.
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South-Eastern Europe reels from a wave of extremely hot weather that has killed several people.
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Torrential downpours around Britain left one dead and hundreds stranded on Monday as storms continued to batter Russia and a heatwave in southern Europe brought further deaths and sparked fires.
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Workers sifting through the blackened remains of a Russian hostel found six more bodies on Thursday, bringing the total number of people killed in the fire to at least 25.
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Blisteringly hot summers similar to the one in 2003 when thousands of people in continental Europe died of heatstroke will become commonplace because of climate change, a study has found.
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Dozens of people across southern Europe have perished in a blistering heatwave while storms whipped the north of the continent and floods claimed four lives in Britain, officials said Wednesday.
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Forty people have died in a heat wave that has gripped France for nearly two weeks, health officials said Tuesday.
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Reports of four more deaths have brought to 12 the number of people who have died since the rains began.
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Greek firefighters started to get to grips with countrywide forest fires on Wednesday after six devastating days, but warned that a coming heatwave could reignite the flames that have killed at least 63 people.
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Torrential downpours around Britain left one dead and hundreds stranded on Monday as storms continued to batter Russia and a heatwave in southern Europe led to further deaths and sparked fires.