AP - The remnants of Tropical Storm Hermine swept northward through Texas and into Oklahoma on Wednesday, forcing more than 100 high-water rescues, swamping city neighborhoods, spawning tornadoes and killing at least two people.
AFP - Floods that have affected almost one million people in the south and east of Mexico will likely worsen after the opening of a dam and predictions of more rain, a state governor said Wednesday.
Reuters - The U.S. National Hurricane Center was monitoring newly formed Tropical Storm Igor in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean and two other tropical systems in the Atlantic basin on Wednesday, but so far none showed any early signs of entering the energy-rich Gulf of Mexico and disrupting offshore production.
Reuters - Tropical Storm Igor formed over the far eastern Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday and was expected to strengthen into a hurricane within the next few days.
AP - Tens of thousands of people have abandoned their homes across southern Mexico to escape flooding from weeks of torrential rains, and forecasts are predicting even more rainfall.
AFP - Five people remained missing as firefighters battled for a third day to contain a major wildfire in the western US state of Colorado, officials said.
The Christian Science Monitor - Floodwaters swept away Ghulam Hussainâ??s house in Pakistan, $1,100 in jewelry, and $400 cash in a box set aside for his daughterâ??s wedding. But the biggest financial blow to his family â?? and to many thousands of others â?? may be the damage to their herds of livestock.
Reuters - Tropical Storm Hermine barely maintained such status on Tuesday as 40 mile per hour winds continued to lash south Texas and the storm moved further inland, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
AFP - Powerful Tropical Storm Hermine slammed into far northeastern Mexico and then barreled into US territory early Tuesday, threatening storm surges, flash floods and tornadoes on both sides of the border.
AFP - The drought in Russia and floods in Pakistan are part of a global trend of unpredictable weather patterns and rainfall that threaten food security, experts gathered in Stockholm said.
AFP - Rising flood waters threatened hundreds of Australian homes Tuesday, after scores were inundated by weekend storms which caused millions of dollars of damage, officials said.
AP - Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to 45 as torrential rains pounded the country.
Reuters - Emergency services in Guatemala on Monday resumed their search for victims of landslides that killed and buried dozens of people, as further rain was predicted for the Central American country.
Reuters - The remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston look very likely to strengthen again as a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic and could threaten the Caribbean's Leeward Islands in coming days on a westward track, U.S. forecasters said on Sunday.
AFP - Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared a "national tragedy" on Sunday after landslides killed at least 37 people and left rescuers digging in the mud for nearly two dozen still missing.
