By STACEY PLAISANCE and BECKY BOHRER
NEW ORLEANS

Sept. 1: With a historic evacuation of nearly 2 million people from the Louisiana coast complete, gun-toting police and National Guardsmen stood watch as rain started to fall on this city

By Tim Gaynor and Matthew Bigg
New Orleans

Sept. 1: Hurricane Gustav barged ashore on the US Gulf Coast west of New Orleans on Monday, hammering the city devastated by Katrina in 2005 with surging floodwaters that threatened its rebuilt levees.

The storm was weaker than feared. But waves splashed over floodwalls containing the New Orleans industrial canal, triggering a tense watch over the barrier system that failed three years ago. Water rose in the Fifth District, west of the canal, and the US Army prepared to evacuate residents who stayed behind.

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NEW ORLEANS: City officials ordered everyone to leave New Orleans beginning Sunday morning

Oil companies stepped up efforts to shut production in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday as hurricane Gustav tore into the US

When Pamela Pipes fled New Orleans for Houston at the weekend with her dog and vital papers, she contrasted the orderly lines of people boarding trains and buses out of the city with the chaos of Hurr

When Pamela Pipes fled New Orleans for Houston at the weekend with her dog and vital papers, she contrasted the orderly lines of people boarding trains and buses out of the city with the chaos of Hurr

Hurricane Gustav swept across the Gulf of Mexico yesterday, forcing the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, the shutdown of offshore oil production and the cancellation of most of the programme on th

Restaurant chains must now list the calorie content of the food they sell

A new tropical depression formed over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday and threatened to become the eighth storm of the already busy 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, the US National Hurricane Center said.

"The depression will likely become a tropical storm later (Thursday) and could reach hurricane intensity within three days," the Miami-based hurricane center said.
The center's computer models predicted the depression would become an "intense hurricane."
If it becomes a tropical storm, it would be named Hanna.