Reuters - Hurricane Earl made landfall in Canada on Saturday and fizzled after a series of scares along the U.S. East Coast, flooding roads, felling trees and cutting power to tens of thousands in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.

AFP - Tropical Storm Earl barreled toward Canada past the northeastern US state of Massachusetts early on Saturday after it weakened further and lost its hurricane status.

AFP - Earl lost its tropical storm status over Canada, US government forecasters announced, but the storm still left one person dead and nearly one million people without power in northeastern Canada.

AFP - Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom declared a "national tragedy" on Sunday after landslides killed at least 37 people and left rescuers digging in the mud for nearly two dozen still missing.

AFP - Rising flood waters threatened hundreds of Australian homes Tuesday, after scores were inundated by weekend storms which caused millions of dollars of damage, officials said.

Reuters - Emergency services in Guatemala on Monday resumed their search for victims of landslides that killed and buried dozens of people, as further rain was predicted for the Central American country.

AFP - The drought in Russia and floods in Pakistan are part of a global trend of unpredictable weather patterns and rainfall that threaten food security, experts gathered in Stockholm said.

AFP - Some 3,500 people were evacuated after a rushing wildfire swept through part of the western US state of Colorado, destroying a number of homes, officials said on Tuesday.

Reuters - A month after torrential monsoon rains triggered Pakistan's worst natural disaster on record, flood waters are starting to recede -- but there are countless survivors at risk of death from hunger and disease.

Reuters - Tropical Storm Earl looked poised on Saturday to become the next hurricane to form over the Atlantic Ocean and was aimed at the Northern Leeward Islands, while Hurricane Danielle weakened to a Category 2 storm.

AP - Five years after Hurricane Katrina's wrath, President Barack Obama sought to reassure disaster-weary Gulf Coast residents Sunday that he would not abandon their cause.

AFP - Hurricane Earl churned toward the south-eastern Caribbean Sunday after reaching Category One status, as Hurricane Danielle headed for the cold waters of the north Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center said.

AFP - Tropical Storm Earl on the eastern fringe of the Caribbean strengthened to a Category One hurricane status, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Sunday.

AFP - New Orleans residents Sunday marked five years since Hurricane Katrina and the devastating floods that followed with a memorial service in the Lower Ninth Ward, where the storm hit hardest.