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Police investigating the possibility that a collision led to the deaths of two people after a small boat sank in central Paris, detained the pilot and co-pilot of one of the large tourist boats that carry sightseers along the Seine river, officials said S

Rescue crews canvassed neighborhoods inundated by Ike's storm surge early Sunday morning, racing against time to rescue those who faced a second harrowing night trapped amid flattened houses, strewn debris and downed power lines.

A small change in Hurricane Ike's course just before it crashed into the Texas coast may have spared the state and the nation from significantly worse economic damage.

It doesn’t take an information design expert to tell you that weather and disaster news can be expressed very effectively with maps. Stormpulse does a particularly good job, pulling together data from various sources including satellite cloud cover map

A running narrative of Hurricane Ike in September of 2008.

Residents living in single-family homes in some parts of coastal Texas face "certain death" if they do not heed orders to evacuate ahead of Hurricane Ike's arrival, the National Weather Service said Thursday night.

As up to a million Texans flee the wind and rain of hurricane Ike, the federal government has imposed a "hurricane amnesty" for the state's estimated 1.6 million unauthorized immigrants..

A mandatory evacuation has been ordered for several low-lying areas of Harris County as Hurricane Ike approaches. In addition, officials have also called for the evacuation of special needs residents across the county.

Oil futures fell to a five-month low in New York following a US government report that showed supplies increased along the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Gustav cut refinery output.

Bush will announce Iraq troop cuts, buil up in Afghanistan; Hurricane Ike weakns after passing over Central Cuba