President Donald Trump has given himself a "10" for his response to the widespread devastation Puerto Rico suffered after back-to-back hurricanes.

US President Donald Trump highlighted Puerto Rico's relatively low death toll compared with "a real catastrophe like Katrina" as he saw for himself the devastation caused by Hurricane Maria.

Hurricane Harvey has deluged America's fourth-largest city with devastating floods, with rising water forcing thousands on to rooftops and overwhelming rescuers receiving constant calls for help.

Former US president George W Bush returned to New Orleans to praise the region’s recovery on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricanes with women's names are more deadly than those with male names, according to a report in the Washington Post.

THEY goin’ down,” John Boudreaux recalls telling a colleague as he recorded the watery cataclysm unfolding before him with an iPhone camera.

New York has imposed a petrol rationing plan that allows motorists to fill up every other day as the city continued to feel the effects of Superstorm Sandy.

Hurricane Sandy, one of the biggest storms ever to hit the US, slammed into the east coast last night to become what some analysts called “the north-east’s Katrina”.

Floodwaters from Hurricane Isaac receded today, power came on and businesses opened ahead of the US Labour Day holiday weekend, the beginning of what is certain to be a slow recovery for Louisiana.

The storm that had been Hurricane Isaac crawled into the central US today, leaving behind a soggy mess in Louisiana and two further deaths.

New Orleans’ flood defences appeared to withstand Hurricane Isaac, but thousands of people to the north and south of the city had to be evacuated or rescued as the storm lingered over the US Gulf Coast with whistling winds and constant rain. At least two deaths were reported.

Hurricane Isaac sidestepped New Orleans, sending the worst of its howling wind and heavy rain into a cluster of rural fishing villages with few defences against the slow-moving storm that could bring days of unending rain.

Tropical Storm Isaac continued to lash New Orleans with heavy rain today despite being downgraded, as residents in cars and homes were stranded exactly seven years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

Hurricane Isaac has swept into New Orleans exactly seven years after the devastating Katrina, stranding people in cars and homes as it pushed flood waters over defences in one rural area.

More than 500,000 people have lost power as Hurricane Isaac moves through south-east Louisiana, bringing torrential rain and flooding.

Hurricane Isaac has lashed the Louisiana coast and is heading for a shuttered New Orleans, sending floodwaters surging and unleashing fierce winds.

Hurricane Isaac made landfall in south-east Louisiana today, with winds of nearly 80mph.

Tropical storm Isaac strengthened into a hurricane just off the US Gulf Coast as it churned toward landfall in the New Orleans area seven years to the day after the city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Isaac turned into a full-blown category 1 hurricane today as it rolled over the Gulf of Mexico toward Louisiana, where residents in four states left boarded-up homes and New Orleans waited nervously behind flood-defence levees strengthened after the devastating Katrina struck exactly seven years ago.

Tropical storm Isaac was on the verge of becoming a full-blown hurricane as it rolled over the Gulf of Mexico toward Louisiana.

The centre of Tropical Storm Isaac’s projected path is heading directly for New Orleans and could make landfall as early as tonight, nearly seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city.

Tropical Storm Isaac churned across the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, disrupting US offshore energy production and threatening to hit Louisiana on the anniversary of the devastating Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

ALEXANDER Skarsgard is hungry for flesh.

Mexican authorities set up emergency shelters and cruise ships shifted course as Hurricane Rina strengthened off the Caribbean coast today, following a projected track through Cancun and the resort-filled Mayan Riviera, Mexico’s most popular tourist destination.

Irene has weakened to a tropical storm as it raced across New York City, leaving behind a stunned east coast where at least nine people died, severe flooding was widespread and four million homes were without power.

A US jury convicted five current and former police officers of gunning down people on a New Orleans bridge in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

A policeman sprayed gunfire at wounded, unarmed people and repeatedly stamped on a dying man on a bridge after Hurricane Katrina, a former officer told a court.

AUSTRALIA evacuated thousands of people from its northeast coast yesterday as a cyclone rivalling Hurricane Katrina bore down on tourism towns and rural communities, with officials saying it could even threaten areas deep inland that were ruined by floods last month.

GEORGE W Bush, all but invisible since he left the White House nearly two years ago, reclaimed the spotlight yesterday with the release of a new memoir defending his “war on terror” and the Iraq invasion.

FIVE years after the ravaging storm, US President Barack Obama celebrated New Orleans’s revival from Hurricane Katrina and pledged common purpose with residents in the continuing struggle to protect and rebuild the Gulf Coast.

President Barack Obama will mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on August 29.

Four police officers could face the death penalty after being accused of gunning down two unarmed people in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

Oil from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is seeping into Lake Pontchartrain, north of New Orleans, threatening another environmental disaster for the huge body of water which was rescued from pollution in the 1990s.

Five current or former New Orleans police officers were charged over the fatal shooting and burning of a man during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

THE giant Gulf of Mexico oil slick was last night closing in on the pristine Florida coast, as deep sea robotic submarines hit a new snag in BP’s latest bid to contain the spill.

Barack Obama warned of a “massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster” as a wrecked BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico spewed a widening and deadly slick towards delicate wetlands and wildlife.

A SPURNED husband who stabbed his ex-wife to death on the day of her divorce party was jailed for life yesterday.

A 63-YEAR-OLD man stabbed his ex-wife to death on the day she was holding a divorce party, a court heard yesterday.

New Orleans Saints clinched the Super Bowl XLIV today in a victory hailed as the most popular in the history of the competition.

IT STRUCK without warning, leaving a trail of destruction and human misery in its wake. The river Lee burst its banks in the early hours of last Friday morning after millions of tonnes of water were released from the Inniscarra Dam, eight miles west of Cork city.

A judge has ruled that negligence by US Army engineers led to massive flooding in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in a move which could lead to a massive Government payout to claimants.

Hurricane Ida, the first Atlantic hurricane to target the US this year, is closing in on the country’s south east, with Louisiana’s Governor Bobby Jindal having already declared a state of emergency.

Will Smith is to play a real-life Hurricane Katrina hero in new film to be written and directed by someone named Hancock.

Sandra Bullock is to be honoured by the New Orleans, Louisiana school she's been supporting since Hurricane Katrina.

An Austrian priest who created a controversy by suggesting that God punished New Orleans with Hurricane Katrina because of the city’s sins said he will ask the Pope to rescind his promotion.

FAMILIES are moving into the first six houses built through movie star Brad Pitt’s Make It Right foundation in Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans.

Families are moving into the first six houses built through Brad Pitt’s Make It Right foundation in Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans.

A SENIOR fellow of the Westchester Institute in New York, Dr Maureen Condic, published a white paper in which, from her scientific vantage point as an embryologist, she pinpoints the very instant at which a human organism comes into existence.