Rescuers have begun a block-by-block search of tens of thousands of Houston homes looking for anyone - alive or dead - who might have been left behind in Harvey's floodwaters.

The flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey are beginning to drop across much of the Houston area, emergency officials said.

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.

Hurricane Harvey, the fiercest cyclone to hit the US in more than a decade, has slammed into Texas, lashing a wide swathe of the Gulf Coast with strong winds and torrential rain.

Estonia, the only country in the world where voters elect their leaders through online balloting, is taking steps to fend off potential hacking attacks as cyber-security fears intensify.

Business leaders need to show Trump they are not cheerleaders for global warming but determined champions of an environmentalism, writes Mark Malloch

 

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

THE backpackers who got naked on the sacred mountain in Borneo aren’t a great advert for the phenomenon we call ‘gap year’.

After receiving critical acclaim for Selma, director Ava DuVernay filled up her calendar with interesting projects. Marvel is also reportedly keen to get her on board for an upcoming project.

The World Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction in March must agree on an updated framework for action to mitigate human and material loss, says Margareta Wahlström

Bretagne is 15-years-old and believed to be the last surviving search dog that assisted on September 11th, 2001.

A drive-by shooting in New Orleans has left a man and an 18-year-old woman dead and five others wounded, three of them children.

A new study claims hurricanes with female names are deadlier than those with male names as people are less afraid of them.

Former New Orleans mayor C Ray Nagin was found guilty by a federal jury of accepting bribes and trading on the public trust during the critical years of rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in 2005.

OVER the last three decades, economic losses associated with natural disasters like floods, storm surges, hurricanes, and droughts have risen in lockstep with the steady climb in global temperatures.

Ellen DeGeneres has given a generous waitress $10,000.

Global warming has accelerated since the 1970s and broken more countries’ temperature records than ever before in the first decade of the new millennium, UN climate experts say.

Gunmen have wounded at least 19, including two children, in a Mother’s Day neighbourhood parade in New Orleans.

Gunmen opened fire on dozens of people marching in a Mother’s Day neighbourhood parade in New Orleans, wounding at least 18, including two children.

It was an image shared thousands of times on social media soon after the Boston Marathon explosions – that of a blonde, bespectacled girl running along a street and wearing a red T-shirt, runner’s gear and a bib.

BP failed to implement a new safety plan on the Deepwater Horizon rig even though it realised a blowout in the Gulf of Mexico was its greatest danger, a court heard today.

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.

SUNDAY’S opening night at the Corona Cork Film Festival will see the screening of The Great Flood, a film-music collaboration between avant garde filmmaker Bill Morrison and pioneering musician, Bill Frisell.

Actor Brad Pitt has turned his talents to creating furniture for a luxury design house with a high-end collection inspired by both art nouveau and art deco, according to Architectural Digest.

A new storm is expected to hit the New York-New Jersey region still cleaning up after the battering from superstorm Sandy.

It may look to America like US president Barack Obama is off the campaign trail.

It may appear as if Barack Obama is off the campaign trail, but he is not.

President Barack Obama, locked in a tight re-election bid, is skipping campaign events in battleground states to visit victims of superstorm Sandy in New Jersey, a state he’s confident of winning.

Superstorm Sandy disrupted the US presidential race as President Barack Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney both cancelled campaign events.

Six Italian scientists and a government official were found guilty in a watershed trial of multiple manslaughter for underestimating the risks of a killer earthquake in the town of L’Aquila in 2009.

Republican candidate Mitt Romney was under pressure to produce a strong performance in the early hours of this morning at his first face-to-face debate with President Barack Obama, amid signs Romney may be gaining some ground in the race for the White House.

Specialist insurance market Lloyd's of London posted a return to profit today after benefiting from a "benign" six months for natural catastrophes.

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.

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.

Republicans bestowed their presidential nomination on Mitt Romney, turning to the former Massachusetts governor and multi-millionaire businessman to drive Barack Obama from the White House and usher in a new era of small-government conservatism.

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.