| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:30:04 GMT
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|  AFP - The US east coast braced for a new major winter storm Tuesday after record snowfall left thousands of people shivering in the dark without power, transportation paralyzed and the federal government shut down.
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| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:11:36 GMT
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|  Reuters - Federal government agencies in the capital region will remain closed for a second day on Tuesday as residents brace for another blizzard while trying to clean up from a weekend storm that paralyzed the area with two feet of snow.
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:49:26 GMT
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| AP - Another huge snowstorm is expected to smack the Philadelphia area this week and make it the snowiest winter on record in the city.
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:00:08 GMT
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| AFP - At least 20 people have died in floods and avalanches triggered by some of the heaviest rain and snow in Afghanistan for 50 years, an official said Monday.
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:56:32 GMT
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|  AP - A strong winter storm was expected to continue tracking east through the Central U.S. on Monday.
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| Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:06:08 GMT
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| AP - A strong earthquake shook several small islands off Japan's southern coast on Sunday, rattling buildings over 100 miles (160 kilometers) away in Taiwan and causing officials to temporarily issue a tsunami warning.
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| Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:35:40 GMT
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|  AFP - Despite the desolation wrought by last month's earthquake, Haiti can salvage hope for the future by looking at how the Indonesian province of Aceh rebuilt after the equally devastating 2004 tsunami.
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| Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:37:25 GMT
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| Reuters - Mudslides touched off by torrential rains poured down onto upscale neighborhoods in the fire-scarred foothills above Los Angeles on Saturday, damaging dozens of homes and destroying some of them.
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| Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:27:05 GMT
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|  AP - "Snowmageddon" — that's what President Barack Obama calls the storm that's shut down Washington.
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| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:41:33 GMT
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|  AP - A second major storm in less than a week was blowing Tuesday toward the Mid-Atlantic region, where plows still hadn't touched some roads, utility workers were struggling to restore power and shovels were in short supply.
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| Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:03:54 GMT
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| Reuters - A mudslide in central Mexico has killed at least 11 people after days of heavy rain that had already caused flooding and fatalities elsewhere in the country.
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| Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:18:08 GMT
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|  AFP - As the second big snowstorm this winter hammered the Washington area Friday, some blamed El Niño, the phenomenon where unusually warm sea surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean move east, pulling rainfall along with them.
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| Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:55:23 GMT
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|  AP - Thunderous mudslides swept away cars and pushed furniture out of homes and into the streets in the foothills north of Los Angeles Saturday as an intense winter storm brought down hillsides in wildfire burn areas.
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| Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:20:16 GMT
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|  LiveScience.com - The term "blizzard" is often tossed around when big winter storms
blow in. But the National Weather service has an official definition of
blizzard:
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| Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:47:26 GMT
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|  AP - A landslide killed at least 11 people in central Mexico on Friday, adding to 18 deaths this week from severe and unseasonable winter storms that closed schools and freeways and flooded thousands of homes.
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| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:27:22 GMT
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| AP - An official in French Polynesia says swelling ocean waters driven by Cyclone Oli have left at least one person dead on the South Pacific archipelago.
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| Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:20:41 GMT
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| Reuters - Unseasonably cold weather should settle over key heating fuel consuming regions of the United States next week in the wake of heavy snow expected this weekend, weather forecasters predicted Thursday.
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| Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:47:50 GMT
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| SPACE.com - The weekend weather forecast is shaping up to give NASA's
space shuttle Endeavour a good chance of blasting off before dawn on Sunday.
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| Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:51:36 GMT
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|  AFP - Punxsutawney Phil, the celebrated rodent at the center of America's quirky Groundhog Day festivities, saw his shadow Tuesday, presaging six more weeks of winter.
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| Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:35:47 GMT
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|  AP - Punxsutawney Phil might be an expert at shadow spotting, but texting? Not so much.
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