A tornado tore through New Zealand's largest city Auckland Tuesday, killing one person and injuring 14 as cars and trees were sent flying through the air and roofs ripped off buildings.

The tornado struck the northern suburb of Albany in the mid-afternoon, with damage centered on a shopping mall, before it moved south, leaving a five-km (three-miles) trail of destruction.

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Nearly a week after the devastating outbreak of tornadoes, it is still not clear what the wind wrought.

While the names of the dead have started to come out, adding a specificity to the grim count, the death toll continues to fluctuate by the day.

The deadly tornadoes that tore across the South last week highlighted the cruel and ruthless side of wind, an energy source championed as an earth-friendly alternative to fossil fuels.

Wind industry experts say their business was largely unaffected by the worst U.S.

Tornadoes were the worst in the U.S.

Dozens of tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system wiped out entire towns across a wide swath of the South, killing at least 259 people, and officials said Thursday they expect the death toll to rise.

Alabama

Devastating storms swept through the South on Wednesday, killing at least 60 people and spawning a tornado that tore through downtown Tuscaloosa, Ala. The evening twister flattened homes and buildings and brought further damage and death to a region already battered by storms.

Across Alabama, at least 50 people were killed by storms on Wednesday alone, according to officials.

Four persons, including two children, were killed during dust storm and lightning incidents in several districts of Uttar Pradesh, the police said on Tuesday.

Satyendra Singh (30), husband of a block development committee member, was killed after being stuck by lightning at Mahua Pamai village in the Khutar area of Shahjahanpur district in morning, they said.

In a separate incident, Pooja (1

AJMER: The Union ministry of earth sciences predicts that Rajasthan will have huge sandstorms in the future as an effect of climate change. The state is now in the danger zone 3 of earthquake. The ministry has decided to build observatories in various parts of the country to calculate the climatic conditions.

18 people were killed and 155 injured in south China as hailstones, cloudburst and strong wind ravaged the region, the state media said on Monday.

Winds as strong as 164 km per hour, accompanied by hail and lashing rain, battered Guangzhou, Foshan, Zhaoqing and Dongguan cities in Guangdong province on Sunday, a spokesman with the province

BHUBANESWAR: Three persons died and another was injured as a high-velocity hailstorm hit coastal Orissa today uprooting trees and utility poles and flattening houses. A 53-year-old woman, identified as Bilasini Nayak, was killed when an uprooted tree fell on her in Gop area of Puri district.