01/11/2012 | World

Frazzled New Yorkers fret about long road back to normalcy

New York authorities have made a big push for normalcy after megastorm Sandy, but for many residents dealing with water-logged homes, power outages, gasoline shortages and painfully slow commutes, things are far from that.

30/10/2012 | World

Sandy leaves US East crippled

Millions of people across the eastern United States awoke to scenes of destruction wrought by monster storm Sandy.

31/10/2012 | World

Flood ebbs, Northeast picks up after epic storm

01/11/2012 | World

Obama, Romney go back on attack as campaign hits final stretch

US President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney went back on the attack, breaking a storm-induced campaign truce to hit the road and pound home their closing messages in the final stretch of a tight battle for the White House.

24/08/2011 | World

US says Irene could be 'big threat' to Northeast

Powerful Hurricane Irene battered the Bahamas on a track to the North Carolina coast that forecasters say could threaten the densely populated US Northeast, including New York, starting on Sunday.

25/10/2012 | World

Hurricane Sandy threatens US after hammering Cuba

Hurricane Sandy swelled into a serious threat to much of the US East Coast on Thursday after hammering Cuba's second-largest city and taking aim at the Bahamas, US forecasters said.

28/10/2012 | World

Hurricane Sandy threatens havoc on US East Coast

Authorities shut transit systems and ordered some evacuations as tens of millions of people on the US East Coast braced on Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, a gigantic storm forecast to deliver battering winds, dangerous flooding and even heavy snowfall.

18/08/2012 | Latin America

Tropical Storm Helene weakens, moves up Mexican coast

Tropical Storm Helene made landfall off the Gulf of Mexico today and weakened into a tropical depression as it plowed up Mexico's east coast, the US National Hurricane Centre said.

31/10/2012 | Multimedia

What Sandy left after hard hit

The US Northeast region began crawling back to normal after monster storm Sandy crippled transportation, knocked out power for millions and killed at least 50 people in the US and 69 in the Caribbean.