Almost a century ago, on October 15, 1927, the forerunner of BP struck oil at Kirkuk in northern Iraq. An uncontrollable fountain of oil, 95,000 barrels per day, shot into the air for 10 days, ...

Scores of Bodies Found in Tigris River; 19 Executed in Separate Killing Iraqi authorities pulled the bodies of more than 50 people believed to be Shiite hostages seized in the Madain region south ...

Mackay has been lashed with 100mm of rain in the last 12 hours sparking a major flood warning for the Pioneer River, while further south, low-lying areas of the Gold Coast have also been warned to ...

CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. (KY3) - A Camden County commissioner meeting detailed SEMA’s latest flood risk data Friday morning. Members of the community showed concern regarding the accuracy of the new ...

The council said the Bureau of Meteorology had forecast “major flooding for the Haughton River”. It said the township of Giru was under threat, “including the possibility of isolation”.

Nila Treston, another Killewich Drive resident who suffered flood damage to her home last ... so that all the people on the river (will) have those barriers up for the least amount of time they ...

“River banks and culverts can become unstable and unsafe.” The weather service also cautioned against entering flooded roads. “Most flood deaths occur in vehicles,” it noted. CNN’s ...

When forecasts predicted that the waters of Siberia’s Ishim River would soon flood the city that shares its name, Russian ...

Australians living in western and inland Queensland are facing major flooding only a few weeks ... as a hell of a lot of water from a number of river systems converge at one time.' ...

The weather service warns of severe thunderstorms and flooding across Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday. Fire danger conditions are also expected in the Northern Cape.