Ice cave collapse in Iceland kills one, two still missing

Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) — Ice cave collapse in Iceland kills one, two still missing.

Latest stories

  • Typhoon Yagi death toll soars to 143 as whole village swallowed by landslide in Vietnam

    Torrent of water gushing down a mountainside in Lao Cai province buried the Lang Nu hamlet with 35 families in mud and debris

  • Flooding in Thailand maroons thousands in northern province

    Thailand deployed military special forces in the northern province of Chiang Rai on Thursday after flooding marooned thousands that authorities are trying to reach with boats and helicopters. At least 33 people have died across Thailand since mid-August from a spate of rain-related incidents including landslides, with nine fatalities this week in two northern provinces hit by adverse weather brought by Typhoon Yagi, according to the government. Yagi, the strongest storm to hit Asia this year, has killed at least 197 people in Vietnam, where it made landfall on Saturday and flooded parts of capital city Hanoi.

  • London weather: Arctic air sends night temperature tumbling to 6C... but a warmer weekend is on the way

    Lower temperatures follow wet weekend and weather warning in the capital

  • Death toll in Vietnam from typhoon impacts rises to 226, as pressure eases in Hanoi

    The death toll in Vietnam from typhoon Yagi and the landslides and flash floods it triggered rose to 226 on Thursday, the government's disaster agency said, as flood pressure eased in the capital Hanoi. The Southeast Asian country is reeling from the impact of Typhoon Yagi, the strongest storm to hit Asia this year, which made landfall in Vietnam's northeastern coast on Saturday. Several districts in capital Hanoi remained flooded on Thursday, but the weather agency late in the day said flood pressure had eased, while flash floods and landslides continued to affect areas across northern Vietnam.

  • Orange County airport fire rages on as 22,000 acres burned

    The airport fire in Southern California continues to spread with more 10,000 homes and other structures threatened. The fire started on Monday (Sept 9) in Trabuco Canyon in Orange County and has now burnt more than 22,000 acres of land. More than 600 firefighters, helicopters and airtankers have been deployed to tackle the blaze as it remains 0% contained. A total of eight firefighters and two civilians were injured and sent to local hospitals for treatment.

  • Hanoi river level hits 20-year high as SE Asia typhoon toll passes 150

    Residents of Hanoi waded through waist-deep water Wednesday as river levels hit a 20-year high and the toll from the strongest typhoon in decades passed 150, with neighbouring nations also enduring deadly flooding and landslides.The Red River in Hanoi reached its highest level in 20 years on Wednesday, forcing residents to trudge through waist-deep brown water as they retrieved possessions from flooded homes. 

  • Millions in SE Asia battle floods, death toll passes 250

    Millions of people across Southeast Asia struggled Thursday with flooded homes, power cuts and wrecked infrastructure after Typhoon Yagi swept through the region, as the death toll passed 250.Myanmar's national fire service confirmed the country's first Yagi-related deaths after 17 bodies were recovered from flooded villages in the Mandalay region, while more than 50,000 people have been forced from their homes.

  • Hanoi flooded by swollen river as Typhoon Yagi leaves 179 dead

    HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam's capital of Hanoi evacuated thousands of people living near the swollen Red River as its waters rose to a 20-year high, flooding streets days after Typhoon Yagi battered the country's north, killing at least 179 people. Asia's most powerful typhoon this year, Yagi brought gales and heavy rain as it moved westwards after landfall on Saturday, causing the collapse of a bridge this week while it scythed through provinces along the Red River, the area's biggest. "My home is now part of the river," said Nguyen Van Hung, 56, who lives in a neighbourhood on the banks of the Red River.

  • Flooding in Hanoi after deadly Typhoon Yagi batters northern Vietnam

    Typhoon Yagi battered Vietnam at the weekend, killing nearly 200 people and causing major flooding. Hanoi evacuated thousands living near the Red River as water levels reached a 20-year high. The typhoon has taken a heavy toll on residents, some of whom have been left without electricity.

  • Hurricane Francine will continue to strengthen on its collision course with Louisiana

    Francine has strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 90 mph and is forecast to keep strengthening – possibly to a Category 2 storm – ahead of landfall along the Louisiana coast Wednesday.

  • High chance of cooling La Nina weather pattern brings little respite for surging global and ocean heat

    A La Nina cooling weather phenomenon is likely to kick in at the end of the year, say weather experts, but will do little to dent soaring global and ocean temperatures.

  • Tropical Storm Francine forecast to be Category 2 hurricane when it slams into Gulf Coast

    Storm is projected to bring up nearly a foot of rain in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, southern Alabama and western Florida

  • Wildfires in Southern California torch dozens of homes and force thousands to evacuate

    Three major wildfires in Southern California's mountains east of Los Angeles torched dozens of homes and forced thousands of people to evacuate, officials said Wednesday. At least a dozen people, mainly firefighters, were treated for injuries that were mostly heat-related, authorities said. One person from Orange County was burned.

  • Travel TikToker collapses and dies at Disneyland half-marathon finish line in scorching heat

    The high temperature on Sunday in Anaheim, where Disneyland is located, was 108 degrees Fahrenheit (42C)

  • Flash flood sweeps away hamlet as Vietnam's storm toll rises to 155 dead

    A flash flood swept away an entire hamlet in northern Vietnam, killing 30 people and leaving dozens missing as deaths from a typhoon and its aftermath climbed to 155 on Wednesday. Vietnamese state broadcaster VTV said the torrent of water gushing down from a mountain in Lao Cai province Tuesday buried Lang Nu hamlet with 35 families in mud and debris. The death toll from Typhoon Yagi and its aftermath has climbed to 155.

  • California, Nevada and Oregon wildfires force thousands to evacuate and burn hundreds of thousands of acres

    Thousands of people have fled from rapidly moving wildfires in California, Nevada and Oregon fueled by a late summer heat wave.

  • Dam overflow sparks new crisis in insurgency-hit Nigerian city

    Flood water from an overflowing dam has destroyed thousands of homes in Maiduguri, the capital city of Borno state in northeast Nigeria, with emergency officials fearing the situation could get worse.Several aerial videos and photos shared by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) with AFP showed rows of houses submerged in murky water.An epicentre of more than a decade-long jihadist insurgency, Maiduguri serves as the hub for the responses to the humanitarian crisis in the northeast region.- Worst in 30 years -The United Nations refugee agency in Nigeria (UNHCR) on its X account said it was the city's worst flooding in 30 years."It is an unprecedented incident," NEMA spokesman Ezekiel Manzo told AFP on Tuesday. "Some of the central parts of the city that have not witnessed flood in so many years are witnessing it today."Thousands of homes have been submerged by the rapid rise of waters after the rupture of the Alau dam on the Ngadda River, 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Maiduguri."The last three days have over 150,000 individuals with over 23,000 households affected," said NEMA zonal coordinator Surajo Garba.But with more locations being hit, "we are sure the figure will be much over 200,000 individuals," Garba forecast."The flood, which began over the weekend and worsened in the following days, was the direct result of excess water from the Alau Dam," said Nigeria's Vice-President Kashim Shettima, who hails from Maiduguri as he visited the area."The collapse of the spillways unleashed a significant surge of water downstream, causing widespread flooding in the surrounding communities," added Shettima.The flood also inundated the city's post office and main zoo, with authorities warning that "deadly animals has been washed away into our communities (sic)."Social media showed pictures of an ostrich which had supposedly escaped from the facility wandering the streets of the city.- "Disaster" -Manzo said forecasts did not prepare the emergency workers for the extent of the flooding, while also blaming the impact of climate change for the "disaster".He told AFP that there were deaths as a result of the incident but declined to give a specific number as rescue workers continue rescue operations in the affected areas.With flooding still "high in many parts of the city", authorities have opened three "temporary shelters" for the victims."Homes are submerged, schools shut down and businesses crippled as people evacuate with their belongings," the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' Nigeria office said.Floods have killed at least 229 people and displaced around 380,000 more in parts of the country, according to NEMA, but mainly in the northern region.The NEMA spokesman told AFP at the end of last month that the central and southern parts of Nigeria may be hit harder as rain intensifies.Some 110,000 hectares (280,000 acres) of farmland have also been affected, NEMA figures showed.  Damages to farmland will worsen Nigeria's high rates of food insecurity, Save the Children warned last week. "One in every six children across Nigeria faced hunger in June-August this year" –- a 25 percent increase on the same period last year, the NGO said in a statement.Flooding, usually caused by abundant rains and poor infrastructure, has caused large-scale destruction in Africa's most populous country in the past.More than 360 people died and more than 2.1 million were displaced in 2012.In 2022, more than 500 people died and 1.4 million were displaced in the worst floods in a decade.Nigeria's President Bola Ahmed Tinubu offered his "condolences" to those affected in a statement, "especially to the families that have lost their means of livelihood due to the disaster."His office said earlier he is working with state authorities to "address the immediate humanitarian needs of the affected people."tba/cw/rlp

  • Tropical Storm Francine batters US state of Louisiana

    Heavy rains and strong winds hammered Louisiana early Thursday as Tropical Storm Francine moved inland, leaving many residents without power while floods threatened the US southern state.Hours later Francine was downgraded to a tropical storm with sustained winds of 50 miles (85 kilometers) per hour, with three to six feet (one to two meters) of storm surge, and up to a foot of rain in some parts of Louisiana, as well as areas of Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida panhandle, the NHC added. 

  • Kylian Mbappe 'agreed to join Liverpool' after huge transfer betrayal

    France superstar joined Real Madrid this summer

  • Former model and Miss Switzerland finalist Kristina Joksimovic 'pureed' in blender by husband - reports

    A former model who was a finalist in the Miss Switzerland contest was allegedly murdered and "pureed" in a blender by her husband, officials in Switzerland are reported to have said. Kristina Joksimovic, 38, was found dead in her home in Binningen, near Basel, Switzerland, in February this year. According to local news outlet BZ Basel, a man named Thomas, 41, had an appeal for release from custody denied by the Federal Court in Lausanne on Wednesday after he reportedly confessed to killing his wife, with whom he had two children.