"Catastrophic" alerts have been issued in Australia after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said on Saturday.

Australia has issued "catastrophic" alerts after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said Saturday.

"Catastrophic" alerts have been issued in Australia after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said on Saturday.

India has scrapped tenders to import rice, saying it has enough stocks to manage despite a harvest shortfall following the worst monsoon in almost four decades.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday visited the scene of massive floods that killed one person and stranded hundreds in the heaviest rainfall on record in England.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Saturday visited the scene of massive floods that killed one person and stranded hundreds after the heaviest rainfall on record in England.

Australia has issued "catastrophic" alerts after record-breaking temperatures and wild lightning storms sparked more than 100 fires across the country, officials said Saturday.

NFL, union contributing $50,000 to aid victims of tsunami that struck American Samoa. The NFL and the NFL Players Association are contributing $50,000 to help victims of the tsunami that struck American Samoa in September.

4.6-magnitude earthquake shakes remote area of California desert. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-4.6 earthquake has shaken a remote area of the Mojave Desert in Southern California.

Egypt must take immediate action to ensure there is no repeat of a 2008 rockslide that killed more than 100 residents of a Cairo shantytown, Amnesty International warned in a report on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck in the Queen Charlotte Islands region off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, on Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. local time (1530 GMT), the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

Magnitude 6.6 earthquake off Canada's western coast. Seismologists say a earthquake struck off Canada's pacific coast province of British Columbia.

A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck Tuesday off Canada's Pacific coast in the remote Queen Charlotte Islands region, experts from the US Geological Survey said, but no casualties were reported.

A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck off Canada's Pacific coast in the Queen Charlotte Islands region, the US Geological Survey said Tuesday, revising down its initial assessment of a 6.8 quake.

Bangladesh said Tuesday it would need 10 billion dollars from rich countries in the next four years to offset the effects of climate change -- double its original estimate.

Southern California wildfire is 95 percent contained; no homes threatened. Cold weather and calm winds are helping firefighters in their battle against a wildfire in Southern California.

Company says flood damage has slowed resupply. If you're having trouble finding Eggo waffles in your grocer's freezer, you're not alone.

The United Nations on Wednesday nearly doubled its appeal for funds to help the Philippines cope with the effects of back-to-back storms that left over 1,100 people dead and 1.7 million homeless.

The lead US federal disaster agency is hoping to both inform and gather information through social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, its top official said Wednesday.

Senate panel studies how national forests can be used to store carbon, slow global warming. National forests can be used as a carbon "sink" with vast numbers of trees absorbing carbon dioxide to help slow global warming, the Forest Service chief said Wednesday, but that goal must be balanced.